ISLAMABAD (AA) – The Pakistan government has announced compensation for the families of those killed and injured during the recent devastating floods as relief and reconstruction activities continue in the South Asian country. Speaking at a high-level meeting on Thursday, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said that the federal government wil...
Abuja, Nigeria (AFP): About 500 people have died in Nigeria’s worst floods in a decade and 1.4 million others have been displaced from their homes since the start of the rainy season. Floods caused by abundant rains and poor infrastructure have affected vast swathes of Africa’s most populous country sparking fears they could worsen...
DADU, Pakistan (AA) – Flood victims returning to villages in Pakistan’s south are finding themselves having to rebuild their homes after they were flattened by last month’s devastating floods that submerged one-third of the country. Allah Bachayo Phanwar stands as a stark example. Located on the outskirts of Dadu district in ...
Algiers, Algeria (AFP): The European Union’s energy commissioner has hailed a “long-term strategic partnership” with Algeria as the bloc turns to Africa’s biggest gas exporter to fill a gap left by Russian supplies. “As the relationship with Russia, so far EU’s biggest gas supplier, is irreversibly broken, w...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – The UN General Assembly has adopted a resolution to express solidarity with Pakistan’s government and people in the wake of recent devastating floods that inundated a third of the country last month, according to a Foreign Ministry statement. The “consensus” resolution also backed Islamabad’s &#...
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 […]
Stockholm, Sweden (AFP): Two Somali human rights activists and a Ukrainian human rights lawyer have won Sweden’s Right Livelihood Award on Thursday, which it considers an alternative to the Nobel prize. The Right Livelihood Foundation also honoured Venezuela’s Cecosesola, an organisation offering social services, and the African In...
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...
