Government spokesman says about 100 homes destroyed in early morning
earthquakes

    * Associated Press
    * guardian.co.uk, Friday 17 April 2009 05.48 BST

Two earthquakes in eastern Afghanistan have killed at least 15 people
and destroyed dozens of homes.

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by Staff Writers
Luanda (AFP) April 16, 2009

The death toll from deadly floods in southern Africa has risen to 145,
aid workers and officials said Thursday, with hundreds of thousands of
people affected by the high waters.

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Cyclone warning for Bangladesh

Weather officials in Bangladesh issued a cyclone warning for the
southern part of the country on Thursday and urged boats not to sail.
Cyclonic storm Bijli was expected to intensify before making landfall
late Friday or early Saturday, said Weather Department meteorologist
Sadequl Alam. "We have raised the warning signal to four out of a
possible 10, with 10 being the highest. At this stage it's too early to
say where it will hit, but it may hit Bangladesh or the
Bangladesh-Myanmar coastline," he told AFP. Alam said the storm was
travelling at about 80 kilometres (50 miles) an hour. More than 3,500
people were killed during cyclone Sidr in November 2007, the second
strongest storm ever recorded in Bangladesh.

by Staff Writers
Antananarivo (AFP) April 16, 2009

Five more people were found dead in Madagascar after tropical cyclone
Jade, pushing the death toll to 15, officials said Thursday.

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By staff writers

NEWS.com.au

April 17, 2009 01:52pm

DEBT related to crop failures has driven more than 1500 farmers in the
Indian state of Chattisgarh to commit suicide.

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