Saidu Sharif, Pakistan (AFP): Army and government helicopter missions are rescuing hundreds of panicked tourists and locals stranded in the Swat valley of Pakistan after the unrelenting floods of the past week. “It feels like I have got a second life,” said tourist Yasmin Akram, a diabetic who was airlifted to Saidu Sharif’s ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US administration has announced an additional $30 million to assist Pakistan as it recovers from mass flooding that has killed over 1,000 people. The funding will flow through USAID to local partners. The international development agency said the assistance will prioritize “urgently needed support for food, nu...
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) – Another 36 people were claimed dead in different rain and flood-related mishaps across Pakistan over the past 24 hours, pushing the overall tally to 1,162, according to the official statistics released on Tuesday. Of the latest fatalities, 19 were reported from northeastern Punjab province, whose southern distric...
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) – 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 ...
Sukkur, Pakistan (AFP): The fate of hundreds of thousands of people in Pakistan’s southern Sindh province lies with a 90-year-old barrage that directs the flow of water from the mighty Indus River into one of the world’s largest irrigation systems. The government has declared an emergency to deal with floods caused by record monsoo...
KHAIRPUR, Pakistan (AA) – Thousands of Pakistanis displaced by unprecedented floods are now facing an even worse ordeal: the outbreak of waterborne and other diseases. The Sindh Health Department confirmed in a statement that over 170,000 people, including 52,000 suffering from diarrhea, have been recorded from flood-affected areas of the prov...
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...
