ABUJA, Nigeria (AA) – More than 300 people have been killed and over 100,000 people displaced in Nigeria due to floods triggered by torrential rains. Speaking to reporters, Mustapha Habib Ahmed, the director general of the National Emergency Management Agency, said Monday that many residents are going through a difficult period. Over 100...
SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan (AA) – The international community’s sustained support in the rehabilitation and reconstruction of flood-ravaged Pakistan is a matter of justice, not just solidarity, the country’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif told Anadolu Agency in an interview on Friday. He proposed “debt swaps for climate action,R...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – The death toll from Pakistan’s ongoing floods has risen to 1,508 as 22 more people, including six children, have died in flood-related incidents in the last 24 hours, official statistics showed on Friday. Thirteen of the new fatalities were reported from southwestern Balochistan province, eight from southern Sindh provin...
BAIDOA, Somalia (AA) – Five Somali ministers have accused the central government of failing to release $9.6 million in relief funds received from the UAE to begin humanitarian operations in the country. As famine is expected in parts of Somalia between October and December this year, ministers from the states of South West, Galmudug, Pun...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – The death toll from devastating floods across Pakistan jumped to 1,481, with 54 fresh casualties, including 18 children, in the past 24 hours, official statistics showed on Wednesday. Of the fresh fatalities, 44 were reported from the southern Sindh province, whereas eight people lost their lives in flood-related mishaps in so...
Mehar, Pakistan (AFP): Beyond a hastily erected embankment protecting Mehar city, hundreds of villages and swathes of farmland are lost beneath the water — destroyed by floods that have affected nearly a third of Pakistan. “Nobody knows where their village is anymore, the common man can no longer recognise his own home,” Ayaz...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Thousands of panicked citizens have left a densely-populated district in southern Pakistan, following a fresh spell of floods, adding to the growing number of displaced people, officials and local media have reported. The Dadu district of southern Sindh province has been surrounded by floodwaters, leaving only one pass...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres visited flood-battered areas in Pakistan on Saturday, calling upon the international community to act swiftly to assist Islamabad in dealing with the devastation caused by torrential rains and massive flooding. In the first leg of his two-day visit to Pakistan, Guterres flew to Suk...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – The death toll from Pakistan’s catastrophic floods has risen to nearly 1,400, with 36 new casualties, including 15 children. These updated statistics were reported in the last 24 hours on Friday. The country’s National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) confirmed 35 new fatalities in southern Sindh province...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – As floodwaters recede in various inundated areas across Pakistan, the country braces for a string of secondary disasters, which experts warn could be “more disastrous and lingering.” From disease outbreaks to severely damaged infrastructure and the looming threat of food security, the South Asian nuclear country ...