As health workers in the DRC deal with the news that Ebola has not yet been defeated, they reflect on the lessons the epidemic has taught them
States need an appropriate instrument to respond to serious violations of international humanitarian law, to prevent such crimes in the future.
With the fight to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi in Libya, Djerbahas become the only Tunisian airport to process tens of thousands of fleeing refugees.
The cholera infection rate in Zimbabwe is nearing the 100 000 mark in Africa’s worst outbreak in 15 years, aid agencies said on Tuesday.
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/ 23 January 2009
More than 50 000 are infected with cholera in Zimbabwe’s epidemic, which has killed 2 773 people, the WHO said on Friday.
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/ 31 December 2008
The Red Cross has deployed seven emergency teams normally reserved for major global disasters to fight Zimbabwe’s worsening cholera epidemic.
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/ 19 November 2008
The international Red Cross is asking for -million, but acknowledged that the global financial crisis means donors will be less generous.
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/ 17 September 2008
The Red Cross said it will on Wednesday start distributing emergency food supplies across Zimbabwe to reach about 24 000 vulnerable people.
The first United States military aid flight landed in Burma on Monday, but relief supplies continued to just dribble into the reclusive state nine days after a cyclone. A C-130 military transport plane left Thailand’s Vietnam war-era U-Tapao airbase carrying 12 700kg of water, mosquito nets and blankets.
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/ 12 October 2007
"Our crops have been destroyed by the water and houses have collapsed," says Egoliam of his village’s ordeal in Amuria, Uganda. The heaviest rains in 35 years have caused the worst floods on the continent in decades. Flood waters have destroyed vital infrastructure and left more than one million people needing emergency help.
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/ 4 September 2007
Severe floods across West Africa have killed at least 87 people, most of them in Nigeria, over the past two months, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said on Tuesday. Weather conditions worsened considerably in August, with areas of hard-hit northern Togo difficult to reach because bridges were swept away by heavy rains.