Source:
Assessment Capacities Project
Country:
World, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic (the), Chad, Democratic People's Republic of Korea (the), Democratic Republic of the Congo (the), Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia (the), Guatemala, Guinea, Haiti, Honduras, Iraq, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Niger (the), Nigeria, occupied Palestinian territory, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines (the), Senegal, Somalia, South Sudan (Republic of), Sudan (the), Syrian Arab Republic (the), Yemen, Zimbabwe
Snapshot, 8 to 15 October
This week, flooding caused by heavy rains affected more than 1.3 million people in Nigeria. Flooding also affected more than five million people in Sindh, Balochistan and Punjab in Pakistan and around 226,000 in Bogra State in Bangladesh. A heavy tropical cyclone hit the south-west coast of Bangladesh on 11th October 2012 displacing 20,000 people and affecting more than 100,000. Armed violence continued to escalate in Syria with heavy fighting occurring in Homs, Daraa, Deir Ezzor, Idlib, Latakia, Aleppo and Damascus.