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YEMEN: Food insecurity stalks Hadramaut Governorate

SANAA Tuesday, November 25, 2008 (IRIN) - Thousands of acres of farmland were destroyed in Hadramaut Governorate, southeastern Yemen, by the late October floods, raising the spectre of long-term food insecurity, according to Agriculture Ministry officials. "The devastation was huge. Hadramaut is now a food insecure governorate. Food security has been badly affected by the floods. Farmers depended on the produce from their land but now they will have to buy food items," Ahmed al-Ashlah, deputy...

PAKISTAN: Nearly all schools in Ziarat town destroyed by recent quake

QUETTA Sunday, November 23, 2008 (IRIN) - School buildings were among the structures worst affected by the 6.4 earthquake that hit the town of Ziarat, Balochistan Province, and surrounding areas in October 2008. Balochistan Education Minister Shafiq Ahmed Khan said: "The earthquake destroyed 98 percent of educational institutions in Ziarat, 50 percent in Loralai and Pishin, and 25 percent in Quetta." There were about 150 primary, secondary and high schools in Ziarat. Most have been damaged. ...

MYANMAR: Teachers and pupils struggle in temporary schools

YANGON Thursday, November 06, 2008 (IRIN) - Of the 4,000 schools damaged or destroyed when Cyclone Nargis hit the Ayeyarwady Delta in May, almost half have been restored. However, according to Thierry Delbreuve, head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Myanmar: "Schools are being rebuilt but there are still 2,500 schools which need particular attention. "These are still temporary schools. They need to be adequately equipped and buildings need to be...

MYANMAR: Cyclone-hit monasteries in need

AYEYARWADY DELTA Thursday, November 20, 2008 (IRIN) - Scores of monasteries in cyclone-affected Myanmar are in urgent need of repair almost seven months after the category four storm struck. According to the social welfare department, 740 monasteries were destroyed and 3,235 monasteries were badly damaged when Cyclone Nargis made landfall on 2 and 3 May, leaving nearly 140,000 people dead or missing. Monasteries play a pivotal role in Burmese society and frequently function as schools to...

KYRGYZSTAN: First consignment of aid dispatched to quake victims

BISHKEK Monday, October 06, 2008 (IRIN) - An earthquake that jolted southern Kyrgyzstan on the evening of 5 October killed at least 70 people and destroyed over 100 houses in a remote village, according to officials. An initial aid delivery has been dispatched. Kanat Abdurakhmatov, head of the Kyrgyz Seismology Institute, told IRIN in the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek, the epicentre “was located in a mountainous and unpopulated part of Tajikistan… But the main impact of the disaster was in the...

SOMALIA: Crops destroyed, families displaced as Shabelle bursts banks

NAIROBI Wednesday, November 19, 2008 (IRIN) - At least 8,000 hectares of farmland in southern Somalia's Lower Shabelle region have been destroyed after the Shabelle river burst its banks, displacing thousands of people, officials said.The flooding occurred around the town of Kurtunwarey, 140km south of Mogadishu."In Afgoye Yarey alone, the population of some 1,750 families [about 10,500 people], were affected. Not a single resident is there now," Sidow Hassan Arkey, an elder, told IRIN on 19...

Inferno ravages Brikama market

A serious fire outbreak last Friday destroyed at least four canteens in the Brikama market. The outbreak was said to have resulted to over D50, 000 worth of damages. According to reliable sources, the incident happened in the early hours of Friday. At the time of going to press, there was no accurate information as to what caused the fire. However, many eye witnesses who spoke to the Daily Observer said they suspected that the fire started in a mobile shop owned by a certain Medina Konteh. The...

Windstorm destroys more CRR houses

Heavy winds recently destroyed several houses in some parts of the Central River Region. According to our Janjangbureh correspondent, the wind was accompanied by a heavy downpour  which destroyed some foodstuffs and households. Alhagie Ganyie Touray, the governor of Central River Region, appealed for assistance to alleviate the hardship of the victims. He said if disasters occur at this time of the year, the victims suffer a lot because their crops are yet to be harvested.  Governor Touray, on...

NBR: 500 disaster victims

At least 500 residents of North Bank Region (NBR) have been affected by a series of storms that pounded houses in 34 villages and destroyed properties, according to documented records in the region. Confirming this in an interview with the Daily Observer, Edward Seckan, the governor of NBR, said the extent of the damage was colossal and called for urgent aid for the affected communities.   He noted that the situation is being closely monitored by the Regional Disaster Relief Committee, which...

Tallinding residents concerned about eroded electric poles

Reports reaching the Daily Observer expressed concern about eroded electric poles within the Kanifing Municipality. In Tallinding, where the reporter identified a great number of electricpoles been slowly destroyed by natural erosion, residents are calling on Nawec to rehabilitate the network of electric poles in the area. ‘‘If nothing is done, they will fall down and the transmission lines can cause disaster,’’ complained Fatou K. Jallow, a resident of Tallinding Kolobane. For his part,...