Red Cross Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/red-cross/ The low down on African affairs Thu, 10 May 2018 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Red Cross Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/red-cross/ 32 32 Kenya dam burst death toll rises to 47 https://jjcornish.com/2018/05/kenya-dam-burst-death-toll-rises-to-47/ Thu, 10 May 2018 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2018/05/kenya-dam-burst-death-toll-rises-to-47/ The death toll following a dam  bursting in northwestern Kenya has reached 47 with more bodies expected to be recovered from the mud. The Red Cross has appealed from $5-million to help those affected by the disaster. The earthen dam is located on the commercial flower farm of Manuskel Patel who was not there when […]

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]]> The death toll following a dam  bursting in northwestern Kenya has reached 47 with more bodies expected to be recovered from the mud.

The Red Cross has appealed from $5-million to help those affected by the disaster.

The earthen dam is located on the commercial flower farm of Manuskel Patel who was not there when it burst.

It’s used to irrigate the flowers exported daily to the Netherlands and Germany and for fish farming.

It burst after heavy rains in the region breaking a prolonged drought.

Water from the dam in Solai, near the Rift Valley city of Nakuru,

wiped out two villages and swept away power lines.

Most people were asleep in their informal homes surrounding the dam when the tragedy occurred and their houses were swept away. 

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]]> Sierra Leone mudslide death toll tops 300 https://jjcornish.com/2017/08/sierra-leone-mudslide-death-toll-tops-300/ Mon, 14 Aug 2017 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2017/08/sierra-leone-mudslide-death-toll-tops-300/ Rescue workers are desperately trying to get to people buried by a mudslide that killed hundreds outside Freetown in Sierra Leone. More than 300 bodies have been recovered and Vice President Victor For says many hundreds might still lie under the mud. The Red Cross says at least 3 000 have been left homeless by […]

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]]> Rescue workers are desperately trying to get to people buried by a mudslide that killed hundreds outside Freetown in Sierra Leone.

More than 300 bodies have been recovered and Vice President Victor For says many hundreds might still lie under the mud.

The Red Cross says at least 3 000 have been left homeless by the heavy rains that turned roads into rivers of churning mud.

But the initial concern is for the hundreds killed – many as they slept – in their homes.

Recovery teams have to wait for the flood to subside to begin their tragic operation.

President Ernest Bai Koroma  has called it  a national tragedy.

Sixty percent of Sierra Leoneans live under the poverty line, forcing them to build ramshackle homes in dangerous places.

 

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]]> Boko Haram released 27 abducted Nigerian schoolgirls https://jjcornish.com/2016/10/boko-haram-released-27-abducted-nigerian-schoolgirls/ Sun, 16 Oct 2016 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2016/10/boko-haram-released-27-abducted-nigerian-schoolgirls/ Twenty one of the  Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram more than two years ago have finally been reunited with their families. The girls were among more than 200 abducted from their school in the northeastern town of Chibok by the Islamist extremist group. ends intro Talks between the Nigerian government and Boko Haram, brokered […]

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]]> Twenty one of the  Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram more than two years ago have finally been reunited with their families.

The girls were among more than 200 abducted from their school in the northeastern town of Chibok by the Islamist extremist group.

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Talks between the Nigerian government and Boko Haram, brokered by the Red Cross and the Swiss government, resulted in 21 abducted schoolgirls being released.

It’s  taken days for their parents to arrive in Abuja, braving bad roads, military checkpoints and the risk of being attacked by insurgents.

More than 200 of the girls are still missing despite the efforts of the Nigerians helped  the US, UK, France, China and Israel.

A total of 276 girls were taken as part of the extremist group’s seven-year fight to establish a strict Islamic state in the northeast of the country.

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