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Acehnese girls attend a special prayer
to mark the start of the Islamic New
Year in the Grand Mosque in the tsunami-
hit city of Banda Aceh, on the
Indonesian island of Sumatra February 10,
2005. Indonesia hopes to begin large-
scale rebuilding and infrastructure
projects in tsunami-devastated Aceh
province next month to take advantage of
international sympathy and billions of
dollars pledged by donors. REUTERS/
Darren
Whiteside
REF: QUAKE INDONESIA
An Acehnese man looks at a boat left on
top of a house as a result of the
tsunami in the Indonesian provincial
city of Banda Aceh February 24, 2005.
Almost 240,000 people are dead or
missing and more than 400,000 were made
homeless in Aceh by the December 26,
2004 tsunami. REUTERS/
Supri
REF: QUAKE INDONESIA
An Acehnese worker builds a wooden home
at a tsunami devastated area in the
village of Uleelheu in outskirts of
Banda Aceh July 1, 2005. A magnitude 9
earthquake on December 26 off the coast
of Sumatra island triggered a massive
tsunami that left 160, 000 people dead
or missing in the Aceh province. Picture
taken on July 1, 2005. REUTERS/Tarmizy
Harva
REF: INDONESIA
An Acehnese child rubs her eye as she
rummages through a destroyed shop in the
Indonesian town of Meulaboh on Aceh's
west coast January 4, 2005. An army of
aid workers raced on Tuesday to supply
food and water to millions of tsunami
victims and the United Nations warned a
death toll of 150,000 would climb as
more bodies are found and disease stalks
survivors. REUTERS/Darren
Whiteside
REF: QUAKE INDONESIA
A woman sweeps water from her flooded
home in Longtan township, Conghua county,
in the southern province of Guangdong
July 21, 2002. The Xinhua News Agency
said nine people were killed and one was
missing after torrential rains hit
Guangdong. State media said nearly 800
people had died in China's worst floods
since 1998. The Chinese characters on
the wall read "happy family".
REUTERS/China
Photo
REF: CHINA
Severe rainstorms and floods destroy
Bahe Railway Bridge, 20 kilometres from
Xian, capital of northwest China's
Shaanxi province June 9, 2002. At least
14 people have died and more than 100
are missing due to flooding. Nine of
them were killed when the bridge
collpsed, according to state media on
Tuesday. REUTERS/China
Photo
REF: CHINA FLOODS
Chinese soldiers fight against the
rising flood waters as they try to put
up barriers on the swollen Binlangjiang
River in Yinjiang, southwest China's
Yunnan province, July 21, 2004.
Torrential rains have caused widespread
flooding in south and central China,
which has been on high flood alert since
Monday when President Hu Jintao issued a
warning about further flooding, a
perennial scourge. Picture taken July 21,
2003. REUTERS/China
Photos
REF: CHINA FLOODS
A Chinese man passes by a flooded hotel
with his makeshift raft in Wuzhou city,
southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang
Autonomous Region, June 24, 2005.
Torrential rain has pushed rivers above
their bursting points and triggered
mudslides in the past week, killing at
least 97 people and leaving 41 missing,
state media said on Friday. In the hard-
hit industrial city of Wuzhou, houses on
the banks of the Xijiang river have been
flooded up to their roofs and downtown
residents have been forced to flee to
higher ground. REUTERS/Jason
Lee
REF: CHINA FLOODS
A Cuban father and his two daughters
enjoy the waves battering against Havana'
s seafront El Malecon, September 5, 2004.
Hurricane Frances caused high waves and
strong winds in the Cuban capital before
being downgraded as a tropical storm
over Florida. REUTERS/Claudia Daut
REUTERS
REF: CUBA FRANCES
A Cuban man pushes his bed through the
almost deserted coastal town of
Surgidero de Batabano, Cuba, September
12, 2004. More than 5,400 inhabitants of
the town have been evacuated before the
arrival of Hurricane Ivan as the
category 5 storm was thrashing the Grand
Cayman islands at noon today. Ivan is
expected to hit western Cuba September
13, before heading toward Florida.
REUTERS/Claudia
Daut
REF: WEATHER IVAN
A Jamaican man stops a car on a flooded
street in Kingston, during Hurricane
Ivan's stay in Jamaica, September 11,
2004. Deadly Hurricane Ivan ripped
Jamaica with powerful winds, torrential
rains and huge waves on today, tearing
away houses and washing out roads before
heading toward the tiny Cayman Islands
and Cuba. REUTERS/
Daniel
Aguilar
REF: WEATHER IVAN
Cuban children stand near a damaged home
in the province of Matanzas, November 6,
2001, after Hurricane Michelle swept
throungh the island. Michelle is the
most powerful storm to hit Cuba since
1944 and has left five confirmed
fatalities so far. REUTERS/Daniel
Aguilar
REF: CUBA HURRICANE MICHELLE
A malnourished infant lies on the floor
of a feeding centre run by the medical
charity Medecins Sans Frontiers in the
town of Maradi in southern Niger on June
29, 2005. Aid workers say cases of
malnutrition have rocketed among
children in Niger in the past few months
after the worst drought in years
aggravated chronic food shortages in one
of the world's poorest countries, which
lies just south of the Sahara. Picture
taken June 29, 2005. REUTERS/
Finbarr O'
Reilly
REF: NIGER
Senegalese children run as locusts
spread in the capital Dakar September 1,
2004. Only a military-style operation
with bases across West Africa can stop
the worst locust invasion for 15 years,
Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade said
on Tuesday as the insects swept into his
capital. The United Nations Food and
Agriculture Organisation (FAO) warned
last week that the locust swarms
infesting countries from Mauritania to
Chad could develop into a full-scale
plague without additional foreign aid.
REUTERS/Pierre
Holtz
REF: SENEGAL LOCUSTS
More than a thousand women and children
line up to receive food aid at a food
distribution center in the village of
Yama in northwestern Niger August 3,
2005. Emergency operations to feed 2.5
million people in Niger reached some of
their first beneficiaries on Wednesday,
but there was only enough for some of
the hundreds of women and children who
came in search of help. Mothers who left
their homes at dawn to trek to Yama
swelled a crowd of expectant faces to
more than 1,000 by the time aid workers
began handing out biscuits and flour
from a stock designed for 500 people.
REUTERS/Finbarr O'
Reilly
REF: NIGER FOOD
A Senegalese child runs as locusts
spread through the capital Dakar,
September 1, 2004 in the worst invasion
to hit impoverished countries across
West Africa in 15 years. The United
Nations Food and Agriculture
Organization warned last week that the
locust swarms infesting countries from
Mauritania to Chad could develop into a
full-scale plague without additional
foreign aid. REUTERS/Pierre
Holtz
REF: SENEGAL LOCUSTS