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2 November 2012 - 11:38amMai Shahzadi and her four children are among more than a quarter of a million people living in temporary settlements following monsoon floods that have affected more than 5 million people across Pakistan this year. Shahzadi, 35, found shelter at a roadside settlement in her village after floods destroyed... -
23 October 2012 - 5:31pmThe United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) has allocated US$9.9 million to help flood-hit communities in Pakistan’s Balochistan, Punjab and Sindh Provinces. Since August 2012, floods caused by heavy monsoon rains have affected 5 million people and destroyed over a million acres of... -
8 June 2012 - 11:05amKaligan lives with her husband and eight children in Maguindanao on the island of Mindanao in the southern Philippines. Maguindanao, which literally means ‘people of the flood plains,’ is prone to climate-related disasters and has been seriously affected by conflict between the Government and... -
3 April 2012 - 12:37amUN agencies and humanitarian partners are providing aid to a sudden influx of some 123,000 displaced people who have arrived at Jalozai Camp and the surrounding area in Nowshera, north-west Pakistan, since 17 March. Many of these people urgently need food, water, shelter and basic aid. Those... -
19 March 2012 - 7:05pmIt is a quiet afternoon in Selimbey, one of the many deserted districts in the outskirts of Van in south-east Turkey, which is still recovering from a 7.2-magnitude earthquake that shook the city in October 2011. Parts of Van are still deserted. But amid the ruins, some families do not have the resources...
