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UN:
AFTER SECOND DEADLY STORM STRIKES DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, UN RELIEF AGENCIES
STEP IN: 14/12/07 (MaximsNews Network)
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UNITED NATIONS - / MaximsNews Network /
- 14 December 2007 --
United Nations relief agencies have activated
their emergency response systems in the Dominican Republic for the second time
in just over a month after the country was hit this week by Tropical Storm Olga,
which has killed at least 27 people as it crossed the Caribbean region.
UN
agencies are working at full capacity to help the Government deal with the
aftermath of the storm, with emergency technical and assessment teams deployed
to the most affected areas, according to information released today by the
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
So far
22 people are confirmed to have died in the Dominican Republic as a result of
the storm, which struck the island of Hispaniola on Tuesday and Wednesday. Two
others were killed in neighbouring Haiti and three more in Cuba, Puerto Rico and
Jamaica, as it continued its path of destruction across the Caribbean. Tropical
Storm Olga is expected to bring more rain to the countries it has already hit.
OCHA
said at least 35,000 Dominicans have been internally displaced, while more than
7,500 houses have been destroyed or substantially damaged and 76 communities
left isolated. But the overall impact is expected to less severe than that
caused by Tropical Storm Noel, which struck at the end of October and start of
November.
The
World Food Programme (WFP is calling for $4 million over the next six months so
that it can provide food relief to about 55,000 Dominicans suffering from either
Olga or Noel.
WFP
Regional Director Pedro Medrano, speaking from the agency’s regional office in
Panama, said some of the affected people had just begun to rebuild their lives
after Noel when Olga arrived.
“Now
they find their efforts seriously set back or literally washed away,” he said.
“They need our help, as do all the other communities now affected by this
destructive wave of storms.”
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