DOHA, Qatar (AA): The Qatari energy minister has said the only thing that “will save humanity and Europe this year is a warm winter.” “If the economy starts churning back up in 2024, and you have just a regular winter, I think the worst is yet to come,” Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi said during the Qatar […]
Tando Allahyar, Pakistan (AFP): At 82 years old, architect Yasmeen Lari is forging the way in fortifying Pakistan’s rural communities living on the frontline of climate change. Lari, Pakistan’s first woman architect, has ditched a lifetime of multi-million dollar projects in the megacity of Karachi to develop pioneering flood-proof...
SANAA, Yemen (AA): At least 31 Yemenis have been killed by heavy rains and flooding in the war-torn country, the United Nations said on Wednesday. “From 11 April, evidence of the intensification of short-duration rainfall events was widespread, which led to intensified flash flooding that caused huge damage to spate irrigation infrastructures ...
Sittwe, Myanmar (AFP): Residents of Myanmar’s cyclone-ravaged Rakhine state capital queued for rice and drinking water on Wednesday as the United Nations negotiated with the internationally isolated junta for access to hard-hit areas. Cyclone Mocha tore through Myanmar and Bangladesh on Sunday, bringing lashing rain and winds of 195 kilo...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA): The US is providing $250,000 to assist emergency relief efforts for Rohingya refugees and locals in the areas of Bangladesh most affected by Cyclone Mocha, the American embassy in Dhaka said Wednesday. “The people of the United States stand with the people of Bangladesh and the Rohingya refugees affected by the cyclone,...
GENEVA (AA): Around 1 million Rohingya living in the world’s largest refugee camp in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar district have been severely affected by Cyclone Mocha and may be further challenged by the approaching monsoon season before recovering, according to an International Organization for Migration (IOM) official. “So on one ha...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA): More than 400 people are dead in Myanmar’s Rakhine state from Cyclone Mocha, which made landfall Sunday on the coast between Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar district and Myanmar Kyaukpyu township, a rights group said Wednesday. The Arakan Rohingya National Alliance (ARNA) in a statement said that coastal villages in Rakhine’s ...
Bu Ma, Myanmar (AFP): The death toll in cyclone-hit Myanmar’s Rakhine state rose to 41, as villagers tried to piece together ruined homes and waited for aid. Packing winds of up to 195 kilometres per hour, Mocha made landfall on Sunday, downing power pylons and smashing wooden fishing boats to splinters. At least 41 people […]
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA): The deadly Cyclone Mocha that surged through the coast between Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh and Kyaukpyu township in Myanmar on Sunday claimed at least nine lives in both neighboring countries, accounting to reports. At least six people were reported dead across Myanmar while three were killed on the southeastern coast of ...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Hundreds of vehicles were trapped after landslides triggered by massive rains and flooding in several parts of southwest Pakistan blocked portions of a key highway, authorities said on Sunday. The epicenter of the overnight torrents and flashfloods was the Sulaiman Mountains range, which sits on the borders of northeas...
