Australian authorities are trying to evacuate this Tuesday about 300 residents of Wujal Wujal (Queensland, Northeast Australia) who have been isolated for days by the flooding caused by Cyclone Jasper, which made landfall near this indigenous community last Wednesday. Emergency services from the Australian state of Queensland today managed to reach Wujal Wujal, about 166 […]
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Disaster in Libya: More than 2 thousand deaths due to Hurricane Daniel
More than 2 thousand victims and at least 5 thousand people are missing. This is the catastrophic toll of the floods that hit parts of Libya after the passage of Storm Daniel, which unfortunately are bound to get worse. The situation is dramatic: Heavy rains hit the Cyrenaica region in eastern Libya, where the city […]
300 dead from Cyclone Freddy and the world’s top 10 news hasn’t made it to the front page
Hurricane Freddy reaches Malawi, more than 300 dead Hurricane Freddy, the longest-lasting tropical hurricane recorded in the Southern Hemisphere, struck the southeast coast of Africa and headed towards the landlocked country of Malawi on Monday, where more than 300 people were killed. At least 85 people were killed in Blantyre, the country’s second-largest city alone, […]