by admin (ACDM) | Sep 16, 2020 | News
Over the past 20 years disasters have affected 4.4 billion people, caused USD 2 trillion of damage and killed 1.3 million people. Disasters affected people living in developing countries and the most vulnerable communities within those countries. Over 95 percent of...
by admin (ACDM) | Jun 17, 2020 | News
Experts warn fragile healthcare systems in many nations could be overwhelmed in the face of a severe COVID-19 outbreak. The outbreak of the new coronavirus has reached every nation in Africa, a continent of 1.2 billion people. As of June 16, the confirmed coronavirus...
by admin (ACDM) | Jun 2, 2020 | News
At least 10 people died in a landslide caused by heavy rainfall in southern Ethiopia. The landslide occurred early on 28 May in the Gamo Zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples’ Region (SNNPR). The landslide buried a two-story house killing at least...
by admin (ACDM) | Apr 8, 2020 | News
A deadly pandemic releasing distressing and gloomy pictures each day. By February 01, the COVID – 19 could still be regarded in Europe as a distant viral outbreak only circumscribed in China where it originated. Two weeks later, with the rising infections swiftly...
by admin (ACDM) | Mar 31, 2020 | News
As more than 25 million people are placed on a two-week lockdown in parts of Nigeria in a bid to curtail the spread of coronavirus, poor people in congested neighbourhoods are worried about how they will cope, writes the BBC’s Nduka Orjinmo from the commercial...
