UNITED NATIONS (AA) – Pakistan is on the verge of a public health disaster after the devastating floods, the UN secretary-general warned on Friday, as the world body now seeks $816 million, a surge of $656 million from the initial amount appealed for. The devastation caused by unprecedented rains and floods in Pakistan has claimed [&hell...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has announced that it will provide “flood relief support” to the tune of $2.3 to $2.5 billion to help Pakistan cope with the devastation caused by unprecedented rains and floods. The proposed support includes a $1.5 billion “countercyclical” loan from the ADB’s Building Resilience with ...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – The UN and Pakistan on Tuesday issued a revised flash appeal for $816 million to cope with the devastation caused by unprecedented rains and floods in the South Asian country. The revised assistance plan, five times higher than the original $160 million appeal, was launched at a ceremony in Geneva to […]
ISLAMABAD (AA) – In the aftermath of the most devastating floods Pakistan has ever seen, the United Nations has proposed suspending all of its international debt repayments and restructuring loans with creditors. The UN Development Program (UNDP) has prepared a memorandum that it plans to share with the government, proposing a suspension of al...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Angelina Jolie, a top Hollywood actress and special envoy to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, has urged the international community to do more as millions of people are in trouble in the flood-hit areas of Pakistan. During her visit to the National Flood Response Coordination Centre (NFRCC) late Wednesday, Jolie said [&h...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – France has assured Pakistan of help in the revival of its economy and reconstruction in the wake of devastating floods and announced holding an international financial and development conference this year. In a joint statement issued after a meeting between Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and French President Emmanuel...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AA) – More than 300 people have been killed and over 100,000 people displaced in Nigeria due to floods triggered by torrential rains. Speaking to reporters, Mustapha Habib Ahmed, the director general of the National Emergency Management Agency, said Monday that many residents are going through a difficult period. Over 100...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – The death toll from floods in Pakistan has risen to 1,545 as 37 more people, including 18 children, died in flood-related incidents in the last three days, official statistics showed on Monday. A total of 678 people have died in Sindh since June 14, 306 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and 299 in Balochistan, […]
SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan (AA) – The international community’s sustained support in the rehabilitation and reconstruction of flood-ravaged Pakistan is a matter of justice, not just solidarity, the country’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif told Anadolu Agency in an interview on Friday. He proposed “debt swaps for climate action,R...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Just as Earth’s ozone layer is slowly recovering from a hazardous hole found in it nearly 40 years ago, this recovery is being impeded by the impact of climate change, said Jonathan Shanklin, a meteorologist at the British Antarctic Survey and one of the scientists who first discovered the ozone hole. Marking […]
