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...week's end the Cameroon army had laid to rest most of the populations of the three hardest-hit villages: Nios, Su-Bum and Cha. At least 300 people, many of them farmers from the surrounding hills, clogged the area's few hospitals, sharing beds with other victims while they awaited treatment for shock and burns. Perhaps another 3,000 refugees, displaced from their homes on the fringes of the affected 10-sq.-mi. area, were evacuated by army troops. All told, it was estimated that 20,000 lives were upended by the freakish disaster that was aptly, if ineloquently...
...hardest-hit travel destination in the Mediterranean region appears to be Egypt, where some 8,000 police conscripts heavily damaged luxury hotels near the Pyramids when they went on an impromptu riot in February. About 80% of the Americans who planned to visit the country have now canceled their reservations, thus wiping out most of the $100 million in U.S. tourism revenues that Egypt stood to gain this year. Says Adel Zaki, manager of ETA Tours, a large Egyptian travel agency: "This year is going to be a catastrophe...
Ohliger, a freelance writer in Cambridge, said committee members chose to turn over the concert proceeds to Grassroots rather than other relief organizations because it sends aid specifically to two of the hardest-hit famine areas, Eritrea and Tigray...
...these groups are mobilizing against the President, and fighting back. But members of the group which has arguably been the hardest-hit in the past four years cannot mobilize on their own. They have no PACs, no national recognition. They cannot march, or picket, or write books. They cannot even vote...
...this southwestern Appalachian mining town of 3,500, nine out of ten adult residents are out of work, making it one of the hardest-hit areas in the hardest-hit state in the country. Mining industry layoffs have pushed unemployment in West Virginia to 21%, up eight percentage points in the past year and the highest rate for any state in the nation...