Tag: Pakistan flooding

Children and families uprooted by flooding struggle to survive Pakistan’s harsh winter. UNICEF is providing critical humanitarian assistance.Ten-year-old Noorullah's family home by the banks of Panjkora River in Upper Dir District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, northwest Pakistan, was partially destroyed by super floods in 2022. © UNICEF/Pakistan/Asim Khan By ...

Unrestricted funding keeps UNICEF ready to respond to emergencies at a moment’s notice, whenever and wherever children are in need, and to sustain that support during protracted and forgotten crises after they fade from the headlines.Just days after the war in Ukraine escalated, a family of 11 siblings left ...

UNICEF continues relief operations to help millions of children still suffering the effects of the catastrophic 2022 monsoon season.At Pakistan's Imamia IDP camp, in Sindh Province's Dadu District, the grandmother of 3-year-old Pumi gives her Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food, a lifesaving treatment for severe acute malnutrition. © UNICEF/UN0742512/ZAIDI By Yvonne ...

This year's overwhelming floods are yet another example of how the climate crisis is endangering the world's children.Alekiir, 12, stands in the floodwater she uses to wash her family's cooking pots outside the village of Panyagor in Twic East, Jonglei State in South Sudan. © UNICEF/UN0594312/Naftalin As the COP27 ...

Drought in China, low rainfall in India and massive monsoon floods in Pakistan are threatening global rice supplies, risking shortages for more than 2 billion people in Asia that depend on it as a staple food. Source link

The familiar ingredients of a warming world were in place: searing temperatures, hotter air holding more moisture, extreme weather getting wilder, melting glaciers, people living in harm’s way, and poverty. They combined in vulnerable Pakistan to create unrelenting rain and deadly flooding. The flooding has all the hallmarks of ...

At least 170 persons have reportedly died due to several rain-related incidents across Pakistan in less than a month. The Sindh and Balochistan provinces reported the highest number of fatalities and damages, having recorded 103 deaths of the 170 reported since monsoon commenced in mid-June. As of Monday, the ...

Three days of heavy monsoon rains triggering flash floods killed at least 50 people in various parts of Pakistan, as troops with boats rushed to a flood-affected district in the country’s southern Sindh province Sunday to evacuate people to safer places.Every year, many cities in Pakistan struggle to ...