Two years after a dam collapse that caused Laos’ worst flooding in decades, many of the thousands of rural villagers who lost their homes and land in the disaster say they are still struggling to...
SC/14254 War-torn Yemen and the wider Red Sea region face an environmental catastrophe of epic proportions if United Nations experts fail to get swift access to the ageing — and now leaking —...
Construction has begun on permanent homes for displaced victims of the worst dam collapse in Laos in decades just weeks after thousands of survivors were reported fleeing from unsanitary conditions...
Description of the disaster The collapse of the Xe-Pian Xe-Namnoy dam on 23 July 2018 as a result of Tropical Storm Son Tinh that had made land fall days earlier, caused massive flash floods that...
For the past 30 years, the International Search and Rescue Advisory Group (INSARAG) has deployed and coordinated search-and-rescue teams to save lives when an earthquake hits a country and causes...
Tboung Khmum Province, Cambodia, 30 May 2020 - Over 200 new and rehabilitated houses for families whose homes were damaged or destroyed two years ago by flooding were handed over to their owners in...
Hundreds of families displaced by the worst dam collapse in Laos in decades are no longer receiving aid, and are living in substandard conditions in temporary shelters, nearly two years after the...
A new dam is set to go up in southern Laos, in the district where two years ago a major dam collapse caused a flood that was described as the country’s worst in decades. On July 23, 2018, water...
In Numbers US$ 1.34 million six-month (Mar – Aug 2020) net funding requirements 476.98 mt of food distributed 93,437 people assisted Operational Updates • WFP signed field-level agreements with the...
Introduction Les tremblements de terre sont des catastrophes présentant des caractéristiques spécifiques. Ils détruisent les infrastructures de transports (par ex. les routes, les ponts) et peuvent...