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Earthquake latest: ‘Miracle’ rescues that keep hope alive amid destruction

13 February 2023

More than 6,000 high rise buildings are known to have collapsed in last Monday’s devastating earthquake in Türkiye, killing thousands, but rescuers have not given up hope of finding more survivors. That’s the message from veteran UN disaster relief coordinator Winston Chang, who’s currently based at Türkiye’s national emergency management centre in Ankara, speaking to UN News’s Daniel Johnson.

The search for survivors continues in Samada, Syria following the February 6 earthquake .

News in Brief 6 February 2023

6 February 2023

News in Brief

Aid teams begin emergency response to Türkiye and Syria quake
UN chief’s top priorities for 2023: peace and equality for poorer nations
South Sudan: UNMISS strongly condemns deadly violence in Central Equatoria

A flooded village in Matiari, in the Sindh province of Pakistan.

Pakistan floods: Six month wait for water to recede, warn relief agencies

20 September 2022

Climate and Environment

Millions of people in Pakistan are still deeply affected by catastrophic flooding which “is not going anywhere”, UN relief agencies said on Tuesday.

Guterres commends India and Bangladesh for life-saving work in face of deadly cyclone

23 May 2020

Humanitarian Aid

The UN chief António Guterres commended the governments and people of India and Bangladesh on Saturday, for their life-saving efforts ahead of devastating Cyclone Amphan, and for the effective relief effort, wishing those survivors injured and affected by the disaster, a speedy recovery.

Macomia district, in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique, has been hard-hit by Cyclone Kenneth, which made landfall on 25 April.

OCHA/Saviano Abreu

‘Nothing left to go back for’: UN News hears extraordinary stories of loss, and survival as Mozambique rebuilds from deadly cyclones

10 July 2019

Humanitarian Aid

As UN Secretary-General António Guterres arrives in the southern African nation of Mozambique on Thursday for a two-day visit, he will be surveying the damage wrought by the deadly back-to-back cyclones earlier this year. UN News reports from the ground, on some of the extraordinary stories of loss, courage, survival and recovery, that have defined the months since then.

On 30 September 2018 in Indonesia, residents evacuate victims who died during the Palu earthquake at the Balaroa National Park, West Palu, Central Sulawesi, after the earthquake and tsunami that struck Sulawesi on September 28.

‘Full impact’ of Indonesia disaster unclear, as UN teams push into worst-hit areas

2 October 2018

Humanitarian Aid

Four days after a deadly earthquake and tsunami hit the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, UN agencies and partners have warned that some communities have yet to be reached and the death toll may rise, as the scale of the destruction unfolds

UNDP/Zaimis Olmos

Hurricane-hit Dominica recovering despite power, economic troubles

28 December 2017

General News

Three months after Hurricanes Irma and Maria delivered a major blow to the island of Dominica, life is resuming on the Caribbean island.

Schools are open, and food and water needs have been met. But only 10 per cent of the homes have electricity and the two main job areas — agriculture and tourism — have been badly hit.

Veronique Durroux speaks by phone to Luca Renda, UN Development Programme (UNDP) team leader and head of UN crisis management on Dominica, about the situation and UN efforts to help.

Duration: 6’41”

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