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18 July 2012 - 12:45pmMillions of people face food insecurity in West Africa’s Sahel region. Successive droughts combined with conflict and displacement have pushed people into crisis in nine countries: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Gambia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria and Senegal. In Niger, the number of... -
2 July 2012 - 4:36pmOCHA and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) today launched a new animation video highlighting the urgent need to invest more in preparing for and preventing natural disasters, which have claimed more than 1 million lives since 2000. The video, Act Now, Save Later, is funded by OCHA and... -
21 June 2012 - 5:15pmNepal is one of the world’s 20 most disaster-prone countries. It faces the threat of devastating floods, landslides, windstorms, hailstorms, fires, glacial lake floods, avalanches and earthquakes. Preparedness is vital in a country where natural disasters claimed more than 27,000 lives and affected... -
1 May 2012 - 4:21pmThe early warning systems and preparedness levels of several Indian Ocean countries were tested on 11 April when an 8.6-magnitude earthquake struck off the west coast of Indonesia. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre issued alerts in Indonesia, Thailand, India and Myanmar as soon as the earthquake struck... -
26 April 2012 - 4:13pmThe Philippines is one of the world’s most disaster-prone countries. One third of its population of 94.9 million people live below the poverty line and are vulnerable to the typhoons, floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions that plague the country. In 2011, there were 21 natural disasters in the...
