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25 April 2012 - 5:17pmMalaria is endemic in Pakistan, and outbreaks always increase during and after the monsoon season. After the devastating floods of 2010, pools and small lakes were left behind that provided ideal breeding grounds for mosquitoes. People who had lost their homes were forced to sleep outside, making them more... -
10 April 2012 - 1:29amFor two consecutive years, unprecedented monsoon rains and floods have swept across southern Pakistan’s Sindh and Balochistan Provinces, affecting millions of people’s lives. The floods of July and August 2010 and 2011 destroyed villages, communities and livelihoods, and forced many people to... -
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... -
21 February 2012 - 11:33pmThe Government of Pakistan and the UN today launched an Early Recovery Framework to help people still affected by the severe flooding that ravaged parts of Pakistan in August 2011. The framework calls for US$440 million to provide basic aid, such as food, medical supplies, shelter, water and sanitation,... -
30 December 2011 - 2:11pm2011 has been a deeply challenging year for millions of people around the world - and stretched the capacity of humanitarian aid organisations to the limit. An earthquake and tsunami in Japan, drought and famine in the Horn of Africa, and flooding in Central America, Pakistan and Southeast Asia,...
