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Ref: OCHA/GVA - 2004/128 OCHA Situation Report No. 9 Bangladesh - Floods 20 August 2004 General Situation 1. In many areas the relief and rehabilitation effort is well underway as people attempt to rebuild their lost and damaged property and livelihoods. However,…

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In southeast Asia, the monsoon winds have brought the seasonal rain, and the rain has brought floods. "Bangladesh floods every year, but this year has been especially bad, and way earlier than normal," says Alana Strong, a CRWRC staffperson in…

In an editorial first published in the Bangladeshi newspaper New Age, WFP country director in Bangladesh Douglas Casson Coutts calls on us to remember Bangladesh's poor, knocked back again by last month's floods. Dhaka, August 19 - There have been pictures…

Current situation In July, heavy monsoon rains led to major flooding over large areas of Bangladesh. Damage assessments, including one undertaken on behalf of the UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), suggest that more than 33 million…

Gareth Thomas (the UK minister for International Development) has today announced that the UK is providing an additional £15 million for the post-flood rehabilitation programme in Bangladesh, to support the Government of Bangladesh's significant on-going relief and rehabilitation work. The…

Westport, CT (August 18)--Millions of children still need assistance in Bangladesh as the nation recovers from severe flooding that has left hundreds of thousands of families in need of food, shelter, clean water and health services. More than 700 people…

The Netherlands is to release €1.5 million to assist Bangladesh, where flooding has led to food shortages in large parts of the country. During the next six months, the money will be spent via the World Food Programme to…

Current Situation Following the arrival of the annual monsoon rains in mid-June, Bangladesh was struck by the worst flooding since 1998. More than 33 million people in a total of 39 districts have been affected by the floods and over…

Australia is providing additional food aid to the victims of the Bangladesh floods following a request from the Government of Bangladesh. In addition to bringing forward our annual shipment of 45,000 tonnes of wheat, Australia will now expedite the delivery of…