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...hardship as the population of the already resource-stretched refugee camps swells with new arrivals. The sprawling Abu Shouk camp outside of Al Fashir, home to some 52,000 displaced villagers, has begun to assume an air of permanence. Feeble tarp-and-twig shelters have been replaced by mud huts, ringed by high walls with cattle tethered inside. The camp's clinics are no longer makeshift, and a teeming market has sprouted nearby. "This is my home now," says Fadna Haroun Abdelmamout, a recent refugee from a village near Kebkabiya. In late August the janjaweed came to her village. When...
...Dawson put any doubts about his ability to repeat his 2003 season to rest in this year’s opener against Holy Cross on Sept. 18. Playing in hurricane-like conditions on a field that was complete mud after the first two minutes, Dawson ran for 184 yards and three touchdowns in only three quarters of work...
...down the initial death toll from 50,000 to 26,271, but many of the surviving population of about 100,000 believe the true number is closer to the initial estimate. In 12 seconds of annihilation, the quake destroyed 85% of the city's buildings, flattening thousands of traditional mud-brick homes as well as Bam's approximately 2,000-year-old Citadel, an imposing clay fortress that once adorned the ancient Silk Road. Despite the hard work of Iranian and international relief agencies, Bam remains a disaster zone. The streets are full of bricks, tangled metal and rubble...
...Quezon have been steadily denuded of trees in the past four decades. (Much of the logging is illegal.) The mountains behind the towns of Real, Infanta and General Nakar no longer function as shield or sponge. Instead, they have become instruments of death-powerful delivery systems of floodwater and mud. Last Monday, Mary Anne Bantucan, a 34-year-old schoolteacher from Maragondon, was returning to her hometown from Infanta in a jeepney with her mother and eight other passengers when Typhoon Winnie hit the coast. "I saw this house being swept away in its entirety," she recalls, "and the cars...
...Macapagal Arroyo tried visiting Real by helicopter on Wednesday but had to cancel her trip because of the bad weather.) In Real, a three-story building at a beach hotel complex that was being used as an evacuation center collapsed, killing 114 and leaving 150 missing. Soldiers slogged through mud to deliver body bags and lime to cover decomposing corpses awaiting burial. In the province of Rizal, the Quizan family's house was flooded with water, but Roberto Quizan and his three sons and daughter managed to clamber onto the corrugated-tin roof. While waiting to be rescued, the youngest...