Flood-hit Kenya must be declared emergency-aid group
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Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki should declare massive flooding that has killed hundreds and displaced thousands across east Africa a "national emergency", aid agency ActionAid said.
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Flooding caused by heavy rains has killed at least 30 people and damaged thousands of homes in central and eastern Sudan, the government said Wednesday.
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The Zambian government declares a national disaster to help deal with catastrophic floods.
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Aug. 27, 2004 - NAIROBI, Kenya Urgent investment is needed in North Korea to deal with severe environmental problems that have depleted the country&#39;s forests, contaminated water supplies and polluted the
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British charities launched an emergency appeal Thursday to limit further suffering when the annual rains arrive in about a month in Sudan&#39;s war-torn Darfur region and neighbouring Chad.
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QUETTA, Pakistan -- This nation launched a huge relief operation for an estimated 20,000 people affected by torrential rains in the southwest, as floods and avalanches pushed the death toll to 260 nationwide, officials said yesterday.
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Floods in southern Africa have displaced  thousands of people, drowned livestock and put large numbers of  children at risk from life-threatening diseases, officials said  on Tuesday.
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Kenya made an impassioned plea   to world governments on Tuesday to quickly extend a helping   hand to chaotic Somalia or risk leaving the entire globe a more   dangerous place.
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Heavy rains and fresh floods disrupted aid to Asia's tsunami-hit villages on Sunday as the U.N. refugee agency started a 400-ton airlift as part of a &#36;2 billion relief operation to save millions struggling to survive.
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The global Red Cross issued an emergency  appeal on Sunday for immediate aid to hundreds of thousands of  people stricken by the tsunamis in South-East Asia.
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Countries across the globe were yesterday responding to the massive tsunami catastrophe in south Asia as United Nations officials warned that it would require the world&#39;s biggest ever aid
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Nations and businesses pledge aid to areas hit by Sunday's disaster.
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The UN says Bangladeshi children and women face acute malnutrition after the worst floods for years.
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Hundreds of thousands of Africans are at risk of disease, amid devastating floods, the UN warns.
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Impoverished Bangladesh could face a catastrophe unless international donors speed aid to 30 million people hit by devastating floods, the World Food Program said on Tuesday.
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Leading British charity Oxfam said Wednesday too many organizations without adequate skills are working in areas hit by the Asian tsunami and called for the United Nations to accredit aid groups.
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Relief workers in Haiti are warning about the growing desperation of flood victims in the aftermath of a tropical storm, Jeanne, that devastated the city of Gonaives a week ago, killing more than 1,100 people and leaving as many as 250,000 homeless.