2024 Disasters in Numbers
<p>In 2024, the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT) recorded 393 natural hazard-related disasters. These events caused 16,753 fatalities and affected 167.2 million people. Economic losses totaled US$241.95
Africa
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Gorillas in the midst
In east Africa the latest war casualties are gorillas
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Paying a high price
Forty thousand dams have rendered 60 million people homeless the worldover
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Pest alert
Swarms of locusts in North Africa could be on the verge of threatening crops further south. If a plague were to break out, maize, sorghum, millet and wheat worth us $2 billion could be destroyed.
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Flourishing unaided
The AIDS epidemic shows no sign of abating with five million new cases reported in 2001
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Oxfam takes IMF, World Bank to task
British aid agency Oxfam has criticised the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund for their economic policies in sub Saharan Africa.
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RWANDA
Wildlife experts said that the volcano, which had erupted in the Democratic Republic of Congo, is not likely to dire ctly affect the rare gorillas of the Virunga Mountains. It would, however,
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Southeast African farmers wary of EU deal
Farmers of Malawi, a country in southeast Africa, have warned the government to tread carefully before endorsing the European Union's (eu's)economic partnership agreement. In a statement, the
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Inverted sense
A catfish, Synodontis nigriventris, native to the rainforest streams of central Africa, swims with its belly upwards, but not because it is afraid that the heavens will crash on its head. The strange
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Looking down at dust
The view from space of a bright blue Earth is becoming marred by smoke and dust as environmental destruction grows increasingly visible, reported the commander of the International Space Station,
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PIPPHILINES
Calauit island, the island reserve legacy of Ferdinand Marcos, the former president of Philippines, has become a killing field for African wildlife. Animal species including eight species