In a message dated 10/20/05 6:11:06 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> PAKISTAN: UN chief Kofi Annan begged the world to do more to prevent a > second wave of deaths from Pakistan's earthquake as troops on Oct. 20 set up > new > helipads to reach survivors cut off for nearly two weeks. Winter's freezing > temperatures are posing new challenges for relief workers delivering > life-saving supplies to remote communities devastated by the recent > earthquake in > Pakistan, a senior UN official said Oct. 17. "The race against time is > growing > shorter and shorter as the weather closes in," with international aid efforts > facing "really daunting logistical problems in delivering assistance to those > in need," said Kevin Kennedy, the Director for Coordination and Response for > the Office of Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Priorities are now > shelter, health and food, and gaining access to remote areas, he said. Some > 3.3 million people are estimated to be homeless, over 40,000 dead, and 60,000 > injured, he said, while cautioning that those figures could rise sharply, > once the UN gains access to all the remote areas affected by the 8 October > disaster. About 1 million people are expected to be "severely affected," > dependent solely on outside assistance for survival, so relief operations are > still > very much "at the life-saving stage at this point," he added. > Forwarded from UN notes on Global Developments BBSutton [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
