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		<title>Heaviest Ever Floods in Northern Namibia</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Mar 2011 17:17:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Servaas van den Bosch WINDHOEK, Mar 25, 2011 (IPS) &#8211; North-central Namibia is experiencing the heaviest floods ever recorded, but unlike in previous years, the area is fully prepared. Flood levels in the Cuvelai basin in north-central Namibia are eight centimetres higher than in the 2009 flood [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zambezi Floods Displace Thousands in Namibia</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 13:36:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Servaas van den Bosch WINDHOEK, Mar 16, 2011 (IPS) &#8211; Thousands of people and livestock in the Caprivi Strip have had to be evacuated as annual floodwaters rise in the Zambezi. However, loss of life has been kept to a minimum as informal warning systems prove to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flood Victims in Pakistan in Dire Need of Aid</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 17:59:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IDN By Bernhard Schell IDN-InDepthNewsAnalysis&#160; KARACHI (IDN) &#8211; As the Gregorian calendar&#8217;s New Year ushered in, millions of people in Pakistan &#8212; mostly poor &#8212; continued to be in need of assistance. However, only 51 percent of the $2 billion U.S. dollar appeal to aid flood victims had been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PAKISTAN: After the Bitterness of the Floods Comes &#8216;Sweet Water&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:24:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Zofeen Ebrahim KETI BUNDER, Pakistan, Oct 21, 2010 (IPS) &#8211; Pakistan’s recent catastrophic floods has had many alternately worried and depressed, but the indigenous community that calls the mudflats between the creeks of the Indus delta home has been having a decidedly far different reaction. Flashing a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Okavango&#8217;s resurgent floods test disaster management</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Oct 2010 16:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Thabani Okwenjani MAUN, Botswana, Oct 16, 2010 (IPS) &#8211; Despite early warnings about higher-than-usual flooding of the Okavango Delta in 2010, homes, fields, latrines and boreholes in the delta were flooded. Beginning in May, gradually rising waters destroyed crops, disrupted the water supply and sanitation facilities, threatening [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PAKISTAN : THE DANGER SIGNALS</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:33:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy B.RAMAN More people were killed and more material damage was caused by the quake in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (POK) and some parts of the North-West Frontier Province ( now called Khyber Pakhtunkwa ) in 2005 than by the recent floods, but the fatalities and damages were confined to a small geographic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DEVELOPMENT-PAKISTAN: Flood Aid Exposes Distrust of Gov&#8217;t</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 13:40:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Zofeen Ebrahim KARACHI, Pakistan, Aug 20, 2010 (IPS) &#8211; Inundated by appeals through text messages, email and Twitter, as well as in print and broadcast media, that call for donations of dried rations, hygiene kits, buckets, tubs and cooking pots, and straw mats, Ambreen Siddiqui feels lost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Funding Lags to Aid Pakistan&#8217;s Millions of Displaced</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Megan Iacobini de Fazio UNITED NATIONS, Aug 16, 2010 (IPS) &#8211; U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon returned from Pakistan Monday calling the floods there the worst disaster he has ever witnessed and urging the world community to speed up assistance to the Pakistani people. Ban, who made a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>460 Million Dollars Sought for Pakistan Flood Relief</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 13:40:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Aprille Muscara UNITED NATIONS, Aug 11, 2010 (IPS) &#8211; With an estimated 14 to 16 million people affected by what the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) calls &#34;the worst monsoon-related floods in living memory&#34;, the U.N. launched a humanitarian flash appeal Wednesday seeking 459.7 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PAKISTAN: Flood Disaster Means Starting from Zero</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 17:56:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Ashfaq Yusufzai PESHAWAR, Aug 4, 2010 (IPS) &#8211; &#34;We swam the whole day to get hold of the elderly and women swept away by floodwaters,&#34; recalled 27-year-old Shahid Ali of Charsadda district, one of the areas in north-western Pakistan badly hit by devastating monsoon rains. &#34;We – [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SRI LANKA: Build Better Infrastructure or Expect More Floods &#8211; Experts</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Amantha Perera COLOMBO, June 9, 2010 (IPS) &#8211; Sri Lankans should be ready for more urban flash flooding, like those experienced in May, unless proper infrastructure is built to allow the onrushing waters to flow unhindered, experts warn. Sri Lanka was hit last month by its worst [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Residents Hope 2010 Flooding Prompts Govt Action in Luanda</title>
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