Morocco and Libya: UN scales up support for disaster relief
He called for solidarity with the people of the two countries and spoke of the tragedy of people looking desperately for their loved ones for days on end. In Libya,…
Libya floods: UN providing aid as disaster response team deploys
More than 5,000 people have reportedly died, many of them residents of Derna, which was struck by a torrent of water from two dams which burst, sweeping away whole neighbourhoods…
‘Disaster emergency’ in Asia-Pacific, warns ESCAP
According to a new report from the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), in 2022 alone, over 140 disasters struck the region, leading to over…
‘Crushing’ debt crisis spells development disaster for billions: UN chief
According to a new report by the UN Global Crisis Response Group, entitled A World of Debt, a total of 52 countries – almost 40 per cent of the developing…
Greek boat disaster: Survivors explain the causes of the tragedy
Survivors of a boat accident near Greece that may have killed hundreds of migrants have told of people smugglers in North Africa who smuggle people aboard fishing trawlers. . According…
Condemned for giving more media coverage to missing submarine than to Greece boat disaster
File photo Human rights organizations have condemned the submarine’s disappearance for more media coverage than the Greek boat disaster. Judith Sunderland, associate director for Europe and Central Asia at Human…
The company was warned that the Titan could be in for a disaster: British newspaper
Missing submarine Titan near sunken ship Titanic—Photo courtesy of Foreign Media The British newspaper has revealed that the CEO of the Oceangate company of the missing submarine Titan near the…
Ukraine: 700,000 people affected by water shortages from dam disaster
On Friday, relief supplies were delivered to vulnerable families in the rural Kherson region close to the front line. The destruction of the dam on 6 June has impacted water…
Kakhovka dam disaster a health crisis in the making: WHO
WHO’s representative in Ukraine Dr. Jarno Habicht told reporters that after the collapse of the dam caused severe flooding and massive displacement, the agency’s primary concern was the potential outbreak…
Ukraine flood disaster: needs grow as long-term impacts loom
Speaking to journalists from Bilozerka, a town on the Dnipro River about 20 kilometres west of Kherson and five kilometres from the frontline, Ms. Brown, the Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator,…