Disaster Area Declared in South Africa’s Drought-hit Western Cape Province

Parts of South Africa’s Western Cape Province have been classified as local disaster areas due to drought, the provincial local government, environmental affairs and development planning department said on Thursday. “The Eden District is still gripped...

The Disaster Mentality

I have been reading Bill McKibben’s latest piece for The New York Review with great fascination. It is a review of the book A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster by Rebecca Solnit. As McKibben makes...

Cameroon Fears Environmental Disaster After Ghanaian Oil Tanker Spill

Environmental groups fear that a Ghanaian oil tanker that caught fire on Wednesday and leaked 14, 000 tonnes of fuel into the Atlantic Ocean in south-west Cameroon could cause an ecological disaster in Cameroon’s territorial waters. There is growing...

Japan Provides Emergency Assistance for Afghanistan During the Heavy Snowstorms

In Afghanistan, a cold wave has hit the western and other parts of the country since December last year. The situation worsened at the end of January, resulting in deaths from freezing, and destruction of houses by the weight of snow and avalanches.

Japan Provides Emergency Aid to Sri Lanka for Flood Relief

The Government of Japan has decided to provide emergency assistance in kind worth about 14 million yen (consisting of tents, portable jerry cans, etc.) to the Government of Sri Lanka to help with the flood relief.