Rapports

Dhaka, August 02, 2009 Date of onset: 30.07.2009 Location: Bangladesh Event details: Heavy rains in the hill reinforced the waterfalls and swelled the river in Chittagong hill tracts and Mymensingh causing land slides and submerging crop land. Matamuhuri River was flowing 91cm…

Disaster Title: Landslide Date of onset: 30.07.2009 Location: Lama, Bandarban Bangladesh Event details: On 30th July, Aziznagar and Gazalia Union in Lama Upazila experienced devastating land slide. Land slide occurred at about 3.00 am burying alive the victims, living in bamboo huts…

Dhaka, July 29, 2009 Disaster Title: Heavy Rainfall Location: Different districts of Bangladesh Event details: A long waited rain in unusually delayed monsoon brought immense sufferings to the city dwellers especially in Dhaka and Chittagong port area. Heavy rains flood…

U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUREAU FOR DEMOCRACY, CONFLICT, AND HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE (DCHA) OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA) BACKGROUND AND KEY DEVELOPMENTS On May 25, Cyclone Aila struck the coastal areas of Bangladesh with wind speeds of up to…

Period covered by this Ops Update: 15 November 2007 to 30 June 2009; Appeal target (current): CHF 24,483,160 (USD 22.2 million or EUR 15 million) in cash, kind, or services to support the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society to assist 243,000…

Dhaka, July 20, 2009 Location: Kurigram, Bangladesh Event details: Erosion of Brahmaputra has taken a severe turn in Rajibpur and Roumari Upazilas of Kurigram with at least 150 houses going in to the gorge of the river in the last one…

Dhaka, July 15, 2009 Disaster Title: Storm Location: The Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh Event details: More than hundred Trawlers were drowned in the Bay of Bengal near to the Teknaf coastal belt due to a sudden storm on Tuesday noon. Date…

Dhaka, July 14, 2009 Location: Sirajganj, Bangladesh Event details: Shahjadpur upazila of Sirajganj District is experiencing vicious river bank erosion in 3 unions and 20 villages. In downstream Kaijuri and Gala area erosion has taken violent from. River Erosion Affected area Damage Jamuna Shahjadpur - Bhat…

In 2007, Cyclone Sidr hit Bangladesh, a densely populated developing country that is buffeted by increasingly worse cyclones, floods and monsoons. Sidr brought Bangladesh's river delta region to its knees, killing 3,363 people and damaging or destroying the homes of…

(extract) Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina called upon the commercial banks to launch small projects for the country's unemployed educated youths for creating small entrepreneurs. She said this while receiving donations of Tk 91 lakh from different banks and an educational…