Tag:Pakistan

Climate Change

Pakistani PM calls for global cooperation to tackle climate change crisis

Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Tuesday, January 31, 2023, called for global cooperation to tackle the negative impacts of climate change, highlighting that...

Michael Simire - January 31, 2023

Climate Change

Germany seeks climate change funding for Pakistan, pledges $90m

Germany will give €84 million ($90 million) to Pakistan in a bid to raise billions needed to help the country adapt to climate change...

Michael Simire - January 9, 2023

Disaster Risk Management

Pakistan on verge of public health disaster – Guterres

UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, in his remarks to the General Assembly on Pakistan floods at UN Headquarters in New York on Friday, October 7, 2022, laments that the...

Michael Simire - October 7, 2022

Health

Millions battle diarrhoea, infections in Pakistan’s flood-hit south

At least 500,000 children are among hundreds of thousands people who have been infected by water-borne diseases in Pakistan’s southern region after catastrophic floods,...

Michael Simire - September 19, 2022

Disaster Risk Management

1,400 die, 12,000 injure from monsoon rains in Pakistan

The total death toll in Pakistan from this season’s monsoon rains and floods since mid-June has risen to around 1,427. Also, 12,742 people were injured,...

Michael Simire - September 13, 2022

Disaster Risk Management

UN chief calls for global response to catastrophic floods in Pakistan

UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, on Friday, September 9, 2022, urged the world to rally in support of Pakistan as he arrived in the country...

Michael Simire - September 9, 2022

Disaster Risk Management

Pakistan struggles to avert danger as floods rise

Pakistani authorities are struggling to prevent the country’s biggest lake bursting its banks and inundating nearby towns after unprecedented flooding. The Pakistan’s National Disaster Management...

Michael Simire - September 5, 2022

Health

Major health risks unfolding amid floods in Pakistan

As districts in Pakistan continue to be affected by massive monsoon rainfall and unprecedented levels of flooding, the World Health Organisation (WHO) warns of...

Michael Simire - August 31, 2022

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