SANAA, Yemen (AA) – Yemen’s Houthi rebels said Sunday 91 people had been killed by heavy rains and flooding in areas under their control. “More than 24,624 families have been affected by the floods,” rebel spokesman Talaat al-Sharjabi told the Houthi-run Al-Masirah TV. He said over 5,699 buildings have been damaged by the heavy rains. [&hellip...
SANAA, Yemen (AA) – At least 77 Yemenis have been killed by heavy rains and flooding in the war-torn country, the United Nations has said. “35,000 families, most of them IDPs (internally displaced people), were affected by heavy rains and flooding between 28 July and 10 August,” the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian [&hellip...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – An unprecedented monsoon spell which has caused widespread devastation across Pakistan is also adding to already escalating food inflation, aside from exacerbating fears of food insecurity in the country. With food inflation already going through the roof at 30%, the ongoing monsoon spells have destroyed huge amounts o...
Ouled Essi Masseoud, Morocco (AFP): Morocco has been hit with a drought. No longer having access to potable running water, the villagers of Ouled Essi Masseoud rely solely on sporadic supplies in public fountains and from private wells. The situation is critical, given the village’s position in the agricultural province of Settat, near t...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Torrential rains and floods have killed another 24 people across Pakistan and parts of Kashmir administered by Pakistan over the past 24 hours. At least 10 people, including women and children, were killed and several others injured when the roof of a house collapsed in the Rawlakot district of Pakistan-administe...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – At least 25 people have been killed in rain-related accidents in the last two days as a fresh spell of monsoon rains and flash floods inundated large swathes of Pakistan, triggering landslides and washing away houses, roads, and bridges, officials and local media reported on Saturday. Some 25 people have lost [&h...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – The death toll in devastating flash floods that have wreaked havoc across Iran in the past few days has reached 56, according to officials, with a weather alert still in place. Mehdi Valipour, the head of emergency operations at Iran’s Red Crescent Society, told reporters on Saturday that the floods triggered [&...
TEHRAN (AA) – At least five people were killed and nine others were injured as flash floods wreaked havoc in parts of northern and western Tehran, Iran’s capital, early Thursday. Many people are also reported missing. According to emergency officials, the worst affected area is the mountainous Imamzadeh Davood locality in northwest Tehra...
Karachi, Pakistan – (AFP): The monsoon, which usually lasts from June to September, is essential for irrigating crops and replenishing lakes and dams across the Indian subcontinent, but also brings a wave of destruction each year. This year’s monsoon is being felt hardest in cities, where poor infrastructure and services lead to cl...
IDLIB, Syria (AA) – Forcibly displaced civilians in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province are struggling to survive in makeshift tents in scorching temperatures. The sweltering heat wave, which has turned into a global phenomenon across the world in recent days, adversely affects the lives of millions of civilians who have taken shel...
