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15 March 2013 - 6:42pmWhen one of the most technologically sophisticated countries in the world is hit by a triple emergency, should we count on web platforms and social media to deliver lifesaving information? Not necessarily, according to a new report by Internews into the communications aspects of the 2011 earthquake,... -
8 March 2013 - 4:44pmOn 11 March 2011, a 9.0-magnitude earthquake followed by a series of massive tsunamis killed more than 15,000 people in Japan’s Tohoku region, and left some 2,600 people missing. Two years later, approximately 315,000 people remain displaced across the country. As the country commemorates the second... -
6 March 2013 - 4:49pmThousands of South Sudanese families are stranded in Sudan’s capital Khartoum waiting for an opportunity to return home, but insecurity and lack of resources have been hampering efforts by humanitarian agencies to transport them safely back to their places of origin. "Since the independence of... -
28 February 2013 - 11:13amVillage elders in the Turkana region of northwest Kenya have expressed optimism about a project aimed at strengthening resilience to natural disasters by providing alternative coping mechanisms, saying that the area’s natural resources are not being used efficiently. “Our community has quite... -
27 February 2013 - 10:53amLe Directeur des Opérations, John Ging, a appelé la communauté internationale à intensifier les efforts pour aider des centaines de milliers de personnes au Mali qui ont souffert à cause de la violence brutale et de l'effondrement économique depuis le dé...
