Sentences with phrase «people displaced while»

is being devastated by raging wildfires that are wiping out entire neighbourhoods and leaving up to 88,000 people displaced while the Alberta government has declared a state of emergency.

Not exact matches

While governments struggle with the best way to accommodate the massive influx of displaced people, business owners are also pitching in.

While the wildfires still burn uncontrolled on nearly 580,000 hectares, the approximately 100,000 people displaced by the wildfires were allowed to return to Fort McMurray and the nearby oil sands operations beginning June 1.

Once again, the chief ecumenical officer of the Russian Orthodox Church misrepresented what is afoot in Ukraine, which is not a «conflict» but a Russian invasion and a low - intensity war, which has already cost more than ten thousand lives while displacing over a million persons and wreaking economic and social havoc in Ukraine's Donbas region.

«The captured terrorists are undergoing preliminary interrogation while the rescued woman and her child are receiving necessary attention pending onward movement to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp.

From the President who has refused to act on investigative reports submitted to him on grievous allegations of diverting over a billion naira meant for resettlement of Internal Displaced Persons (IDPs) by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal under the Presidential Initiative for the North East (PINE) and the miraculous discovery of 13billion naira in an apartment at Ikoyi, Lagos under the supervision of the Director of the Nigerian Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ayodele Oke, to the Head of Service of the Federation, Oyo - Ita Winifred Ekanem, who connived with others to reinstate into active duty and promote Abdulrasheed Maina, the former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, who allegedly stole over 6billion naira pension fund; the Chief of Staff to President Buhari now renamed the «Thief of Staff», Abba Kyari, who allegedly received a bribe of 500million naira to negotiate a fine reduction for MTN Nigeria, and has continuously been in the heart of every sharp practices in the Presidency; the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu who allegedly received a kickback of 3.8 billion naira in exchange for marginal oilfield using his brother, Dumebi Kachikwu as front; the Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, who was the brain behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Chief of Army Staff, General Tukur Buratai who during his time as the Director of Procurement at the Army Headquarters allegedly diverted funds meant to equip the Military into buying choice properties worth millions of dollar in Dubai; the Minister for Solid Minerals, Dr. Kayode Fayemi who allegedly embezled State Universal Education Board (SUBEB) funds as the Governor of Ekiti State; the Minister for Interior, Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau who was indicted by a Presidential investigative committee probing Arm procurement for awarding ghost contracts worth $ 930,500,690 with others while as the Chief of Army Staff between 2008 - 2010 and one of the brains behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi alleged to have stolent 142billion naira as the Governor of Rivers State.

Group Capt. Azubuike Chukwuka, the Director, Public Health and Humanitarian Services, Air Force Headquarters, stated this while inspecting the ongoing exercise at the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) satellite camp, Damboa in Damboa Local Government Area of the state.

While stating that there were over 110,000 displaced persons in the seven designated camps in Benue State, the governor said, «Children between ages four and eight constituted 70 per cent of the population and the conditions we saw them in are not palatable.»

No fewer than 10 people have died, while 7, 342 others were reported displaced by flooding in Plateau between May and July this year.

• Full deduction for disaster clean up expense • Relaxed retirement plan distribution rules — elimination of the 10 percent penalty tax that would otherwise apply on an early withdrawal from a retirement plan and permit individuals to withdraw up to $ 100,000 without penalty to cover storm - related expenses • Housing Exemptions for displaced individuals — would provide additional tax exemptions for individuals who provide free shelter for at least 60 days to anyone displaced by the storm ($ 500 exemption per person, maximum of four exemptions for the year) • Worker retention credit — would extend tax credits to business owners who continued paying wages while their businesses were forced to close.

Terrorism: 10,000 killed, 2million displaced in Nigeria - Buhari President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday night disclosed that over 10,000 people have been killed while over two million Nigerians have been internally displaced by terrorists in the country in the last six years.

While he is at it, he should not forget the bombing of hundreds of Internally Displaced Persons and the doctors and other medical professionals who looked after them at Rann IDP camp in Borno State.

«The captured terrorists are undergoing preliminary interrogation, while rescued woman and her child are receiving necessary attention pending onward movement to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp.

«Unfortunately, we lost a soldier and a member of the local vigilante (Civilian JTF) during the encounter, while 3 soldiers and 4 Internally Displaced Persons sustained injuries.

The governor said this while taking delivery of grains worth over $ 1m donated to the displaced persons in the North - East by the Economic Commission of West African States.

El - Rufai, while addressing the villagers at the Chawai Primary School, where Internally Displaced Persons, numbering over 500 were camped, directed Haruna to turn up himself to Fulani chiefs (Ardo) in the area or be arrested by security operatives in the state.

In 2007 alone, summer flooding in Great Britain cost that nation nearly $ 6 billion, while torrential rains in China displaced more than 500,000 people, with losses to property and crops in excess of $ 1 billion.

Whit Stillman is a director fascinated by the idea of people gladly displaced from their own time: foppish debutantes abide by romantic era courting rituals in»90s Manhattan in Metropolitan; a good old limbo contest trumps modern jazz in Barcelona; and lovers of disco music band together while boxes of wax platters are torched at baseball games in The Last Days of Disco.

Unfortunately while it may not require much or any resources at all to generate a crisis that would displace people, a lot of resources is required to build permanent solutions out of the crisis.

Download the magazine here While the world - society close its eyes, refugees, stateless, asylum seekers and internally displaced people are suffering each day.

Since this money is to be used for short - term relief — to help people pay for immediate expenses, such as accommodation and food, while displaced from their homes — the government wants to make sure that those in extreme situations get help first.

From organizing supply drives and raising thousands in funds to making room for hundreds of shelter animals from the south so that displaced pets had a place to stay while they waited for their families to find them, our local animal people went above and beyond.

When I started writing this piece last fall, the number of Syrians killed was said by the United Nations to be about 125,000 people; now it is closer to 500,000 with 4,000,000 displaced in Turkey or Europe while 6.36 million people have no home within the country.

«The displaced people can take shelter in the community hall while the livestock will be placed in the shelter,» he said, adding that the owners were still responsible for feeding and taking care of the cattle.

The Ponorogo Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) said 26 or 27 people were reported missing while 23 houses were buried in the incident, displacing about 300 residents.

5:30 p.m. Postscript While in Manila, Harish Hande and I escaped from the energy summit briefly and were driven to Calauan, a 5,000 - family resettlement «village» at the base of a forested mountain, built for people displaced by disasters in and around the megacity.

And while countries like Myanmar will have the largest number of displaced peoples from climate change, even countries like the US are likely to see a surge in internally displaced people as coastal communities come face to face with sea level rise and more destructive storms.

While Bangladesh is well - known for the natural calamities that regularly leave millions of people homeless and displaced, far fewer know that it is also one of the most proactive countries in the fields of disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate adaptation, as well as a leading voice among the poorest countries in climate negotiations.

While the total number of displaced people is linked to rapid population growth and low or stagnating economic growth.

It commandeers huge tracts of coastal land, displacing thousands of coastal people, while offering a paltry number of jobs in return.

Rise in sea levels The AFED reported that 12 % of Egypt's farmland is at risk due to rise in sea levels, while another UN study suggests 8 million people will be displaced in Egypt if the sea level rises by just 1 meter.

So far, all I have is more questions, but the urgency feels greater with each passing day, every part per million more of CO2 in the atmosphere, every newly displaced person, every child suffering while so many live in heedless abundance.

So while they will reduce expenses, they may also put people out of work who can least afford to be displaced.