Because of the floods and the killing of BPH's natural enemies, farmers are more dependent on insecticides for several seasons. The platform documents the Japanese Red Cross Society's experience since the triple meltdown, which followed a magnitude-9 earthquake on 11 March 2011, along with interviews with relief teams, and doctors and nurses from Red Cross hospitals.At around 5:40 this morning, the MINUSMA compound in Kidal was targeted by a complex attack involving more than 30 rockets and shells. The temperature dropped to below -- 8 degrees celcius in the mountains and some relief operations have been constrained by road blockages. 3.8 million for Kandy Districts have already been released to provide reliefs for the people living in Central hills of the Island exposed to highly hazardous conditions owing to the extensive pouring and earth slips. Caused by an earthquake off the coast of Sumatra, the massive tsunami affected 14 countries and killed over 226,000 people when it struck on 26 December 2004. The India Meteorological Department has predicted that with likely duststorm and thunderstorm activity over northwest India, day temperatures are likely to fall during the next two to three days. Gordon also informed the Ambassador in a phone call that PNRC Governor James Dy is organizing a team of Chinese speaking doctors and nurses that will lend their expertise in medical emergency as with Governor George Go for trained volunteer firefighter-rescuers. And banks have shut down and most private money-lenders have stopped their activities, leading to a severe cash liquidity crisis in Gao, he said. The national meteorological and geophysical agency reported that more than 39 aftershocks hit West Java after the earthquake yesterday. A combination of Kenya's growing structural deficit, a reduction in the area planted by farmers in the past two seasons, and three consecutive failed rainy seasons, have resulted in the 1996/97 harvest falling an estimated 770,000 tons short of national requirements. Deep valleys that form passageways for lahars dissect the flanks of the 1320-m-high volcano, which was constructed within a 4.5-km-wide caldera. In the central province of Ninh Thuan, where reservoirs have almost completely dried up with water below 10 per cent of their design capacity, officials plan to stop planting rice on 10,229ha for the summer-autumn crop. Distributing relief materials in the flood-hit areas in Jamalpur yesterday, he said that the government has undertaken a plan to construct a 4.5-km embankment at Dewanganj hard point and urged the farmers to plant Aman after recession of floodwaters, as seedbeds are being prepared under the supervision of Army, newspapers reported. Full fledged recovery and rebuilding operations have to wait 6 months or more as nothing can be done during the harsh himalayan winter. The (more important) autumn sowing is only six weeks away. The Commission is helping combat an outbreak of yellow fever in Senegal, which was first reported in September 2002. As the violence in Syria sent shockwaves throughout the region, Israel, guided by its commitment to the United Nations mission, opened its gate and provided the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) safe harbour. According to the State Emergency Commission, 4 persons died during the 1999/2000 dzud and the number of dead animals in the affected aimags (provinces) reached approximately 2.4 million. Other needy cases have simply slipped through the cracks. The drilling operation is part of a major US $100 million water-supply project for Quetta. Moussa Ag Asherif, a top member of Ansar Dine said the original accord had been merely a basis for working discussions and that the deal was on a take it or leave it" basis Regional and Western leaders have long feared a breakaway state in Mali's restive north could become Al-Qaeda's main safe haven and the group's north Africa branch has already offered advice to Ansar Dine on creating an Islamist state.