This flood can have a low humanitarian impact based on the Magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

Updated: this report is based on update number 255.

• Flood Magnitude 6.00
• from 08/04/2012 00:00 UTC to 26/04/2012 23:59 UTC
• 9 killed and 11000 displaced

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Articles: 5 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

World: The role of armed forces and the ICRC in natural disasters
Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:41:00 +0200   reliefWeb (en)

Source: ICRC Country: World The 16th Tokyo Defense Forum (TDF) and its Open Seminar were held on March 15th and 16th in Tokyo organized by the Japanese Ministry of Defense. The ICRC was invited as one of a few international organizations to participate in both seminars.

People and organisations: International Humanitarian Law  Red Crescent  cyclone Nargis  Red Cross  International Federation 

After the Earthquake, but Before the Flood
Sun, 22 Apr 2012 02:01:00 +0200   antiguanews (en)

I ARRIVED IN PORT-AU-PRINCE BEN FOUNTAIN last December to find my friends coughing, sniffling, hacking and struggling for breath amid the orange smog that hung over the city like a cloud of Cheetos dust. Soon Haiti would mark the second anniversary of the earthquake, and I was back to do more of....

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World: Disaster by the numbers: Experts discusses rise of climate-related catastrophes
Thu, 19 Apr 2012 01:22:00 +0200   reliefWeb (en)

Source: Harvard University Country: World Reported natural disasters are up dramatically since 1950, with more lives damaged by homelessness and injury, even as modern medical care and improved disaster response have reduced the number of lives lost, an authority on global disaster data said Monday.

People and organisations: United Nations  Harvard Humanitarian Initiative  Francois-Xavier Bagnoud  Francisco Javier  Harvard Medical School  Paul Gregg  Debarati Guha-Sapir 

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