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          Stranded people carry their belongings as they wade through a flooded area after heavy monsoon rainfall in Rajanpur district of Punjab province on August 25, 2022. - Figures from the national disaster agency showed on August 25 that 903 people had died in the floods since June, and more than 180,000 were forced to flee their rural homes. (Photo by Shahid Saeed MIRZA / AFP)

          Pakistan declares emergency as millions affected by floods

          AsiaAugust 26, 2022
          An aerial photo shows a dry canal full of salt in Basra, Iraq. AP

          Cultivated areas halve in Iraq as drought tightens grip

          August 05, 2018
          Iraqi protesters at the provincial council building in Basra demand better public services and jobs. AP

          Iraq says Saudi to sell power at a fraction of Iran's price

          July 31, 2018
          A woman stands near a fountain that has been switched off in St Peter's Square, in Vatican city, on July 25, 2017. Andreas Solaro / AFP

          Vatican turns off fountains for 'first time in memory' amid Rome drought

          EuropeJuly 25, 2017
          Displaced Somali women and their children receive medical treatment on the outskirts of Mogadishu. Mohamed Abdiwahab / AFP

          Horn of Africa needs a joint plan for future

          OpinionJuly 21, 2017
          North Korean children look up from the side of a road in Hamhung, North Korea's second largest city, on July 20, 2017. Nearly one in three North Korean children under the age of five have stunted growth. Wong Maye-E / AP Photo

          UN sounds alarm over North Korea food shortages

          AsiaJuly 21, 2017
          There is no place for malnutrition in our world, and yet it exists. Albert Gonzalez Farran / AFP

          Together, we can reduce rates of malnutrition

          OpinionMay 31, 2017
          Dr Salwa Al Janahi is one of 25 doctors so far volunteering as part of the Zayed Giving Initiative in Somalia. Courtesy Zayed Giving Organisation

          Emirati doctors treating more than 1,000 victims of Somalia’s drought daily

          UAEMay 03, 2017
          Tamil Nadu state minister Sellur K Raju, centre, helps civic workers lay the first thermocol polystyrene sheets to cover a dam in a bid to save water. AFP Photo

          Three sheets to the wind: Indian minister’s bid to cover a dam in polystyrene backfires

          WorldApril 24, 2017
          More than six million people are facing a food crisis in Somalia. Antonie Robertson / The National

          Terror will not deter our aid to Somalia

          OpinionApril 22, 2017

          UAE telethon to help Somalian children facing starvation raises Dh165 million

          UAEApril 22, 2017

          Terror attack will not deter UAE’s aid mission to Somalia

          GovernmentApril 19, 2017
          The 1984-85 famine in Ethiopia captured the world’s attention and led to unprecedented fund-raising efforts. Finn Frandsen / AFP

          By managing drought, Ethiopia now serves as a model for its neighbours

          OpinionApril 07, 2017
          Somali herder Ahmed Haji, 30, waters his goats using water trucked in by a tanker in a remote desert area near Bandar Beyla in Somalia's semiautonomous northeastern state of Puntland. Somalia has declared the drought a national disaster, part of what the United Nations calls the largest humanitarian crisis since 1945. Ben Curtis/AP Photo

          Somalia drought crushes herders’ lives as their animals die one by one

          WorldMarch 13, 2017
          Somali soldiers prepare to secure the capital on the eve of presidential elections, at a police academy in Mogadishu, Somalia on February 7, 2017. Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP Photo

          Somali capital on lockdown ahead of presidential vote

          WorldFebruary 07, 2017
          A drought-afflicted field in Mpumalanga province, South Africa. Eight of South Africa’s nine provinces have been declared disaster areas because of a lack of rainwater. Waldo Swiegers / Bloomberg

          Weather technology helps Africa’s farmers plan for the future

          BusinessOctober 05, 2016
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