Sukkur, Pakistan (AFP): Aid efforts ramped up across flooded Pakistan on Tuesday to help tens of millions of people affected by relentless monsoon rains that have submerged a third of the country and claimed more than 1,100 lives. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif called the flooding “the worst in the history of Pakistan”, adding it wo...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – The UN and Pakistan’s government have issued a flash appeal for $160 million to cope with the devastation caused by unprecedented rains and floods in the South Asian country, which also claimed nearly 1,200 people’s lives. The appeal was jointly issued by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Pakistani Foreig...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – The death toll from massive floods caused by unprecedented monsoon rains in Pakistan has risen to 1,138. The most deaths were reported from southern Sindh province, with 402 fatalities, according to the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA). At least 258 people have died in the northwestern Kyber Pakhtunk...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Rising floodwaters washed away the village of farmer Altaf Hussain near Ranipur town of Pakistan’s southern Sindh province in a few hours. Like hundreds of thousands of other displaced Pakistanis, Hussain from village Dur Mohammad Langrija Goth is currently lodged at a government school-turned-shelter camp ...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – With another 10 deaths over the past 24 hours, the overall toll from massive floods caused by unprecedented monsoon rains across Pakistan reached 1,061, an official said on Monday. Speaking to Anadolu Agency, an official from the country’s National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said the death toll ha...
BAIDOA, Somalia (AA) – Somalia, the country most affected by climate change in the Horn of Africa, is facing a catastrophic drought that has already claimed hundreds of lives. Baidoa, the capital of Southwest State, hosts thousands of new arrivals from rural areas after the drought devastated their farms and livestock, some of them walki...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistan government has declared a national emergency and called in the army to assist the civil administration in relief and rescue operations as the death toll from rain-related incidents approached 1000. The decision was made in a three-hour meeting late Thursday night after authorities said floods affected more than 30 mil...
Islamabad, Pakistan (AFP): Heavy rains continue to pound much of Pakistan, with authorities reporting more than a dozen deaths — including nine children — in the last 24 hours. The annual monsoon is essential for irrigating crops and replenishing lakes and dams across the Indian subcontinent, but each year it also brings a wave of ...
RABAT, Morocco (AA) – Moroccan authorities said on Wednesday that forest fires that broke out in three provinces had been brought under control. A firefighter in the northern province of Ifrane told Anadolu Agency that rescue teams managed to extinguish the fires that erupted on Monday in Jabal Askar in the province before they spread [&...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan government has sought the international community’s help to cope with the destruction caused by floods in the country. The magnitude of the abnormal rains and flooding has prompted cash-strapped Pakistan to launch a global appeal to raise funds to meet the needs of the growing number of affected people. ...
