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| More than 70,000 people previously listed as missing are dead, Indonesia's health minister declared yesterday, significantly raising - but also adding confusion to - the estimated death toll from last month's tsunami. The ministry's account brought the official number of dead in Indonesia to 166,320 and the overall toll in 11 countries to as many as 221,100. | |
| Disasters/War | The Independent – 20th January 2005 |
| The U.S. Army is preparing to send 18 remote-controlled robotic sharpshooters to fight in Iraq.they will be the first armed robotic vehicles to see combat, years ahead of the larger Future Combat System vehicles currently under development. | |
| Disasters/War | The Sentinel – 25th January 2005 |
| The drive by the EU to become a military force will take a big step forward today when all 25 nations agree to create battle groups of elite troops able to reach trouble spots such as Darfur within 15 days. The move, which means forging multinational teams of soldiers, is part of an ambitious agenda of boosting the EU's military and crisis intervention capabilities to give it more clout on the world stage. Britain will play a leading role and along with France, guarantee to make one of the battle groups - each of which will have around 1,500 troops - available and on standby for the first half of next year. | |
| Disasters/War | The Independent – 22nd November 2004 |
| Over 28,000 children have been abducted since the war in Uganda began in 1986, 12,000 in the last two years alone. | |
| Disasters/War | Faith for Life - November 2004 |
| More than 40,000 women and girls were raped by soldiers and used as sex slaves during the six-year civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and they desperately need medical care, according to a report released yesterday. Amnesty International said that soldiers from more than 20 armed groups, and government soldiers from the DRC, Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda had taken part in the attacks, some on girls as young as five. Even soldiers from Monuc, the UN peace-keeping mission, are under investigation for abuse. In some cases, militias have kept women for several months.More than 20% of the population in eastern Congo is estimated to be infected with HIV/Aids and more than half of the people could catch the virus within the next 10 years, making the rate of infection one of the highest in the world. | |
| Disasters/War | The Independent – 27 October 2004 |
| Nearly two million Ugandans, out of a population of 24.7 million, now live in refuge camps for fear of being attacked and killed in their villages. Children have told how they had been forced by the rebels at gunpoint to abduct and murder other children and to drink their blood. A former commander of the rebel group explained that he had forced villagers to chop up, cook and eat their neighbours before he killed them, too. | |
| Disasters/War | The Independent – 23 October 2004 |
| Saddam Hussein's regime has been accused by human rights organizations of being responsible for killing up to 300,000 Iraqi and Kurdish civilians, although the figures are disputed. The US authorities and the Iraqi interim government claim that more than 40 mass graves have been identified so far. | |
| Disasters/War | The Independent – 14 October 2004 |
| 20 years ago was the launch of Band Aid, but even in 2004 Ethiopia still faces problems. Even during the good years after Band Aid some 4 million Ethiopians need food aid to prevent them from starving. In 2003 it was 13 million. In Darfur where the attention is now focused, there are 2 - 3 million at risk. | |
| Disasters/War | Third Sector – 13th October 2004 |
| More than 70,000 people have been killed as a result of fighting in Darfur - a region of the Sudan - and the World Health Organisation estimates that an additional 10,000 a month will die from malnutrition or health problems. | |
| Disasters/War | The Independent - 20 October 2004 |
| The devastating floods in Bangladesh have affected nearly 30 million people and are the worst since 1988, which left over 21 million homeless. Losses to property and infrastructure are said to be in the region of £3.9 billion. About 1.5 million people are living in 5,000 public buildings, schools and flood shelters and face acute scarcity of safe drinking water, adequate food relief and health services. | |
| Disasters/War | Catholic South West - September 2004 |
| It is estimated that 50,000 people died in the conflicts in Sierra Leone, with 4 million (75 per cent of the population) being traumatised and 800,000 having to flee their homes. | |
| Disasters/War | The Walk - Issue 008 |
| More than 1,000 people died and approximately 50 million were stranded or homeless across large areas of North India, Bangladesh and Nepal, following what many describe as the worst floods in decades. CAFOD, working through its partner Caritas Bangladesh, provided food aid and medicines to 32,000 families in the worst affected areas. | |
| Disasters/War | Christian Herald - 14th August 2004 |
| Clashes between Christians and Muslims have claimed some 10,000 lives since 1999 and despite the Malino peace accords signed in 2001 and 2002, sporadic violence continues to occur. Some 1,250 public buildings have been destroyed and about half a million Malukans have been forced to live as refugees in their own country. | |
| Disasters/War | Christian Herald - 14th August 2004 |
| Record numbers of children in Northern Uganda are fleeing their homes each night in fear of abduction and death as the country's 18 year conflict worsens, according to Tearfund partner Noah's Ark. Every night more than 25,000 night communters walk to Gulu town to escape the Lord's Resistance Army, which is waging war against the Ugandan government. A further 20,000 sleep in the neighbouring town of Kitgum. | |
| Disasters/War | Christian Herald - 3rd July 2004 |
| The early morning explosion of reactor 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear plant on 26th April 1986 caused the worst man made peacetime catastrophe the world had ever seen. Some 190 tons of radioactive debris was blown around the world. Belarus, a country just north of Chernobyl, received 70 per cent of the fallout, subjecting its 10.2 million inhabitants to high levels of radioactivity - (equivalent to 90 times greater than that created by the Hiroshima bomb). Although this happened over 20 years ago, the children have inherited a terrible, tragic legacy. They live, drink, eat, breathe and sleep radioactive contamination. Many suffer from acute gastritis, as the food is often rotten. The childen also suffer from cancers, leukaemia, headaches, nose bleeds, dizziness, skin problems, and are extremely prone to infections as their immune systems are very weak. | |
| Disasters/War | The Plain Truth - June / August 2004 |
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