Haiti: UN calls on world to stand by aid pledges at critical juncture for stability
16 September 2011 –
United Nations
agencies are scaling up their assistance to flood-affected
people in Pakistan, where more than five million
people are urgent need of food, shelter, safe water and access to
health services.
According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), some 5.5 million
people have been affected so far by the flooding, which has also resulted in over 230 deaths, damage or destruction to 1.1 million homes and inundation of 4.5 million acres
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