Nigeria annual flood outlook 2024
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Natural Disasters
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Confident" China Rules Out Post-Quake Epidemics
Chin said on Monday it could guarantee there would be no epidemics in the eathquake zone, while some survivors complained their farmland was being bulldozed to make way for temporary housing. Where bodies crushed under buildings in the devastating May 12 tremor could not be cremated, they had been been buried deep underground and far from water sources to prevent contamination, Health Ministry spokesman Mao Qunan said. Camps had been disinfected and people warned of health risks.
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Erosion driving people to other States
The living condition of the people of Paschim Ratiadaha part-II village under Bisondoi gaon panchayat in the far western part of the Indo-Bangladesh border in Golokganj LAC of Dhuburi district are in a deplorable state as the villagers are yet to see the development even after six decades of India's Independence. The heavy-erosion of the river Gangadhar has made more than 300 families of Ratiadaaha part-II village homeless and has devastated their cultivable lands. As a result, the homeless families have to take shelter on roads and dykes.
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PMC says no problem, we're ready to tackle floods
Three lakh cubic meters of silt removed from Mutha Even if it rains heavily this year, the Pune Municipal Corporation has claimed that it was ready to tackle any flood situation. The PMC's confidence stems from the removal of three lakh cubic meter of silt from Mutha river
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The Big Dry
Early last year, the bush storyteller Murray Hartin penned a 14-stanza poem in three hours flat. Rain From Nowhere is about a farmer on the brink of ruin who receives an empathetic letter from his father. A celebration of resilience and hope, it is as moving a piece of Australian verse as has been published in decades. It's also pertinent.
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Helping Hands
The highway leading to Yingxiu, a small town near the epicenter of China's May 12 earthquake, is rent by fissures big enough to swallow a child and is choked with smashed trucks and enormous rocks. Near the town's outskirts, just past a compact car that has been crushed by a boulder, a landslide cuts off the road entirely.
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Flood havoc - Relief for flood- hit:
: The heavy deluge experienced during the last couple of days which caused flooding and landslides has wreaked havoc in several parts of the country, leaving at least four people dead and more than 50,000 affected. In addition around 8,000 families were reported as displaced by yesterday. Weathermen warned yesterday that there was a risk of more landslides and floods as heavy rains would accompany the onset of Southwest Monsoon, expected to get established over the island within the next two days.
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Storm Arthur Threatens Flooding In South Mexico
Tropical Storm Arthur, the first of the year in the Atlantic, weakened to a depression over Mexico on Sunday but still dumped torrential rain across the south of the country that threatened to create floods. Arthur, which had been forecast to move early Sunday into the Gulf of Mexico where there are many oil installations, was still overland and was seen moving farther inland in coming hours and then losing punch. Still, Arthur's wicked winds forced the closure of two of Mexico's three main oil exporting ports in the Gulf of Mexico because of rough seas.
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Quake forces, evacuation
A strong 6.4-magni-tude earthquake rocked the ^northern Philippines and southern parts of Taiwan early Sunday, shaking houses and prompting authorities to order some people to leave their homes. The quake struck at a depth of 22 km under the seabed in the Philippines' Batan Islands region at 0157 GMT, said the U.S. Geological Survey. There were no immediate reports of any casualties or damage and no tsunami warning was Issued. There were some weaker aftershocks and residents in some coastal areas were told to evacuate their homes.
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Myanmar Warned Over Forcing Cyclone Survivors Home
Myanmar must stop forcing cyclone survivors to return to their shattered homes where they face more misery or even death, rights groups said on Saturday, as a US official accused the junta of being "deaf and dumb" to foreign aid pleas. The former Burma's junta started evicting destitute families from government-run cyclone relief centres on Friday, apparently fearing the 'tented villages' might become permanent. "It's unconscionable for Burma's generals to force cyclone victims back to their devastated homes," Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch, said in a statement.