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...
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 ...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Another 39 people have fallen prey to the raging floods caused by torrential downpours in southern and northern Pakistan over the past 24 hours, pushing the overall toll to over 700 since June. The majority of the deaths have been reported in the provinces of southern Sindh and southwestern Balochistan, where […...
ADEN, Yemen (AA) – A total of 13 people were killed and 21 others injured in a single day in Yemen from lightning strikes, local media reported Sunday. The Houthi-run Saba news agency reported that seven people died and eight others were injured as a result of lightning strikes in various parts of Hajjah province. […]
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – At least five boats with more than 70 fishermen in Bangladesh’s southern coastal district of Barguna have been missing since Friday night, according to local authorities. The fishermen had gone to the Bay of Bengal for catching Hilsha (Elish) fish, which is the national fish in Bangladesh when gusty storm swept [&helli...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Relentless rains and subsequent floods killed another 33 people across Pakistan over the past two days, , officials and local media reported on Saturday. Hundreds of thousands of people have been directly affected by flooding caused by torrential downpours in all four provinces, the northern Gilgit-Baltistan region, an...
