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134 Families Face Forced Displacement in Zambia

Published in Thursday August 30th, 2012 In In the media

August 29, 2012 OVER 134 families in Nsamba area in Chief Kanyeshya’s chiefdom in Mkushi District are facing possible destitution after their traditional leader allegedly sold 1, 900 hectares of their land to an investor. According to Chief Kanyeshya’s adviser, Maxwell Katenta, Chief Kanyeshya allegedly sold the land to Capital Fisheries, displacing over 134 families […]

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Hurricane Isaac soaks Gulf Coast and tests New Orleans levees

Published in Wednesday August 29th, 2012 In In the media

Hurricane Isaac drove water over the top of a levee on the outskirts of New Orleans on Wednesday, but the multibillion-dollar barriers built to protect the city itself after the 2005 Katrina disaster were not breached, officials said. Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser said about 2,000 residents of the area had been ordered to evacuate but only about half were confirmed to have gotten out before Isaac made landfall late on Tuesday.

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In Spain, Madrid’s ‘slum of shame’ faces uncertain future

Published in Wednesday August 29th, 2012 In In the media

August 28, 2012 Europe’s largest illegal settlement lies just outside the Spanish capital, Madrid. A sprawling tangle of tents and cement houses, Cañada Real is now home to over 40,000 people. But maybe not for long… In Cañada Real, roads and alleyways are unpaved. Houses are made of corrugated metal or cement. Some lots are […]

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Villages Destroyed By Rains in South Darfur, Sudan

Published in Wednesday August 29th, 2012 In In the media

August 28, 2012 Jacob Mursal, the Commissioner of Bilel locality, South Darfur, told Radio Dabanga that heavy rains and floods swept several villages in the locality on Tuesday, August 28. He added that more than 20 families are now living in open areas. The Commissioner said that a cemetery in Bilel was washed away and […]

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Typhoon Bolaven buffets South Korean coast

Published in Wednesday August 29th, 2012 In In the media

August 28, 2012 A strong typhoon pounded the Korean peninsula on Tuesday. At least eight people were killed and 10 hurt in South Korea as the storm barrelled toward already flood-ravaged North Korea. The storm, named Bolaven, buffeted the west coast of South Korea with winds of up to 170 kilometers (106 miles) per hour, […]

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In Nigeria, Floods Continue to Wreak Havoc in States

Published in Wednesday August 29th, 2012 In In the media

August 28, 2012 Five persons have been confirmed dead and 19 others injured as floods ravaged more villages in Safana, Kurfi and Batsari local government areas of Katsina State while many more have been reported missing in Adamawa State, Daily Trust can report. In Katsina State, for example, three persons lost their lives in Runka […]

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Riover and out

Published in Wednesday August 29th, 2012 In In the media

Families’ agony as 30,000 are evicted from their homes in £11bn slum facelift In tree bark skirt and macaw feather head-dress Tobi Itauni waves an impaled deer’s skull at the builders working on the Maracanã soccer stadium.     “I’m warding off evil spirits,” the wide-eyed Amazonian Indian tells me as he murmurs a chant […]

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The Marlboro Evictions in South Africa and the Shortfalls of the Housing Policy

Published in Tuesday August 28th, 2012 In In the media

August 28, 2012 After protests against evictions in Marlboro last week cast fresh scrutiny on the legality of the evictions themselves, lawyers and NGOs working in the area warned that the legal challenge against the evictions masked a far greater problem: namely, the severe shortage of housing in Alexandra and the spill-over into neighbouring Marlboro. […]

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Storm Adds to Misery in Haiti’s Homeless Camps

Published in Monday August 27th, 2012 In In the media

August 25, 2012 Tropical Storm Isaac whirled across Haiti on Saturday, delivering strong winds and rain that caused flooding, mudslides and at least a few deaths, according to preliminary reports, but not the kind of widespread destruction feared in the earthquake-battered nation. Radio news reports and social media users reported streets flooding in the capital, Port-au-Prince; […]

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In Small Town in the US Hit by a Storm: Hope, Despair and a Mudfest

Published in Monday August 27th, 2012 In In the media

August 26, 2012 By NOAH ROSENBERG One house on Main Street here is not like the others. It seems to twist, stretch and taunt the fine line between hope and despair that has inextricably woven itself into the town fabric over the past year. This house, with its dormer windows still intact, looms tall — too […]

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