Extreme, Unusual Rain Aimed for Egypt

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[I came upon this in "accuweather.com".... This is from a blog, and includes maps with the precipitation forecast.]
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Saturday, January 16, 2010 11:24 AM

I cannot recall seeing so much rain forecast by a numerical forecast model for Egypt and northwest Arabia. I am talking about highest rainfall of 10-15 cm in an area from south of Cairo east to Sinai, also the Nile Delta. Amounts to at least 5 cm along the northern Red Sea coast of Saudi Arabia to the desert of southern and eastern Jordan. Frame of time would be late Sunday through late Monday, local time.
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Upon reaching the Nile Delta, the storm center is forecast to hook northeastward to Cyprus and central Turkey. This turn will aim the core of its heavy rain northeast through Palestine/Israel, Lebanon and Syria into much of Turkey. This would include substantial rainfall for northern and western Iraq as well as the desert of eastern Syria, northeastern Jordan and even northernmost Saudi Arabia.


An interesting aspect of this storm is its potential to snow upon some unusual spots. Among these would be the mountain spine (I do not know its name) of eastern Egypt. Another would be the highlands of Sinai such as Gebel Musa. The cold at the core of the trough could "catch" the trailing edge of the rain, leaving tops above 1,500 meters whitened with snow.
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The closure of the Cairo - Hurghada because of heavy rain
Sunday, January 17th, 2010 - 20:20

Torrential rains and bad weather in the closure of the Cairo - Hurghada to traffic in the region located between-powered and Ras Gharib.

The Diwan of the emergency operations room in the Red Sea Governorate has received notification from the local unit of the Ras Gharib area ????????? exposure to heavy rains, causing obstruction of traffic on the road to Cairo - Hurghada and endanger the lives of citizens and motorists at risk.

And the presentation of the risks to Major-General Magdi Al-Governor of Red Sea in coordination with the General Directorate for the passage of the Red Sea decide to close the road to traffic until the weather improved and the removal of the damage caused by rain.

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And fears of their arrival at the El-Arish ..
Flash floods in central and south Sinai
Monday, January 18, 2010 - 10:29

Heavy rains large regions of central and south Sinai on Sunday evening, resulting in flash floods accompanied by the joy among the Bedouin in the center, fears of access to the riverbed town of El Arish to the detriment of the artisanal and the market position of El-Arish and a number of facilities.

The sources said that the floods Bedouin have already reached the start and led from the area of El Arish flabby
The focus of the floods in the areas of Wadi Al-Arish and coupon Jeror Valley and Wadi Amro and Muwaylih and Gaevp and Wadi Alozarq.

The sources added that small clumps of snow fell in the central regions, while light rain fell on the city of El Arish. Floods have cut off roads in central Sinai, as of Sunday evening. This is expected to be used by Bedouin water stored in Alhrapat purpose of agriculture and stored for drinking.

In South Sinai, heavy rains fell on the cities of preservation resulted in the closure of the road from Km 109 to the eyes of Moses and blackout in the city of Sharm el-Sheikh. Gen. Adel Kassab, director of disaster management and crisis in the Diwan of South Sinai, that the preservation of rain all seen the cities of the province and rainfall in gypsum factory at
And walked in the stream, leading him in the direction of Ras Sudr.

Sharm el-Sheikh and saw heavy rains caused a blackout in the city. And ordered Maj. Gen. Mohamed Abdul-Fadil Shusha governor of South Sinai, blocked the road leading to the Ahmed Hamdi Tunnel until Monday morning, raising the high state of alert and preparedness of the annex to the ambulance and implement the contingency plan drawn up by the South Sinai governorate in advance for such natural disasters.

It is noteworthy that the security agencies and police forces led by General Ahmed Gamal Eddin, Director of Security for South Sinai, was activated by the patrol on the main roads in the governorate and pounders to prevent cars from moving in different ways, especially traveling on the main road from Mount Sinai and even the eyes of Moses.

Overjoyed at the Bedouin valleys, especially in the Ferrand valley and St. Catherine and Wadi lender due to heavy rain, stressing that it would be a happy new year to them, because they are waiting for a heavy rain for many years.

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And canceled the celebration of National County
Floods destroyed 41 houses in Aswan and close the two international airports
Monday, January 18, 2010 - 12:07


Roughly 41 houses to collapse by the floods that hit the province of Aswan, on Monday morning, in the villages of Abu feathers, heel and dropper entrance Aswan, which led to the cancellation of the celebration of National County, which was scheduled today before the Board of Aswan, the participation of various official bodies, civil under the auspices of the Governor of Aswan.

Turning Major General Mustafa Mr. Aswan Governor immediately to the affected villages, where being an urgent payment of subsidies to the affected people from floods, and initiating actions exclusively to determine compensation.
According to Mohamed Hassan, Media Aswan it being collected in the affected youth centers in villages until the search is transferred to safe places.

It was also decided to close airports in Aswan and Abu Simbel International Airport due to bad weather, with damage to Aswan complete paralysis, and saw heavy rain, and snow balls, and high winds caused a blackout for the entire province and flooded several streets in the water.

Also witnessed the storm water drains to maintain torrential rains in the areas of Abu al-Rish and ask and Wadi Wadi Chrit CPC and, on the other hand heavy rains to cause many of the cracks in the way of Egypt, Aswan, Kom Ombo and the road to victory Nubia, Edfu and in Ramadi, also suffered the villages of Abu Behrev with feathers and shells many of the trees and palm due to high winds.

Protection forces received several communications from the outbreak of fires in homes, broke down hundreds of mud houses and roofs, and now thousands of people in the open, has opened schools and mosques after midnight to accommodate the citizens.

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Cairo, due to flooding rains clogged drains

Monday, January 18, 2010 - 13:04
The city of Cairo on Monday morning, heavy rains intermittently, after the remedy during the winter, as rain began pouring down in a mild form that has increased sharply with the near-afternoon, it has increased in amount to the floods in several provinces of Lower Egypt, causing plunge many of the streets.

Heavy rain affected the movement of citizens, especially vehicular traffic, and the problem appeared clear of places that accumulated rain water back by the lack of disposal due to obstruction of the vast majority of stormwater drains deployed on the streets and few cars based on the withdrawal of excess water areas, and there are many road bumps along key streets.

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"Meteorology" expect very cold weather tomorrow
Monday, January 18, 2010 - 14:04

Weather forecasters are to continue the uncertainty of the weather conditions, prevailing in the country on Tuesday, cold weather during the day very cold at night, and reproduce low-and middle clouds to the north and east of the country to Cairo and parts of the thunderstorm at Sinai and the amount to floods and consists of frost on the plants in the Sinai and Upper Egypt and the wind mostly northwesterly moderate to brisk exciting of sand and dust.

It is expected that the status of the Mediterranean moderate-to-turbulent and turbulent red, ranging height of waves in the Mediterranean between two meters to three meters, and red between three meters to four meters, and wind in the Mediterranean and Red Sea northwesterly.

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"Health" declares state of emergency to cope with floods
Monday, January 18, 2010 - 16:14

The Ministry of Health a group of ambulances equipped with medical teams in each of the provinces affected by the floods, which rained on the districts of Sanaa, and South Egypt, which left many injured, leaving behind what he needs to get medical help urgently.

And The Ministry of health is a state of emergency in all hospitals in the governorates affected by the floods, especially Luxor and Aswan, Sinai, in addition to providing a range of ambulances equipped for travel between the provinces.

She also informed the Ministry of Health all provincial health Almdreatt to its sudden the face of floods, and the need to deal with cases that need immediate intervention.

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Flooding kills Bedouin in Sinai and washing away a brand new Hummer to the Egyptian border, Israeli air strikes and research than 1000 missing and cut down the desert road in Luxor
Monday, January 18, 2010 - 13:25

Resulted in flooding that witnessed Sinai yesterday and early Monday killed Bedouin in the middle and bulldozed hundreds of acres and the Israeli bulldozing of the Hummer to the Egyptian border and the loss of dozens of Bedouin and Israelis on the border as Israeli planes and other United Nations and the Egyptian planes to inspect the flood areas in search of survivors.

Moussa said Aldlh elders from the tribe Tarabin The flooding and unprecedented eruption led to a brand new Hummer and other things from the Israeli side to the Valley region Alozarq Sinai near the mark No. 36 International He said there are two people taken into account instead of camels and Mraziq Mraiyziq Abu Hamdan, from the valley Alozarq been recovered traumatized as there are dozens of missing persons

Security sources said that the extensive search aircraft in the areas of flooding in search of dozens missing and more than 1000 stuck in North, Central and South Sinai as floods cut off roads, power lines and water and washed away hundreds of huts and thousands of nomadic herds of camels, sheep and goats.

The sources said the flood reached the south of Rafah in the village of Albrt currently on its way to the riverbed town of El Arish and, if the connection would destroy the market and positions in the region, the sources added that in the event that continued to flood the same magnitude, thousands of nomads will need urgent relief and rescue operations of air and interventions at the highest level of central and south Sinai

Emergency room and was held in northern Sinai to pursue the matter of the moment by moment, with thousands expected to watch from the city of El Arish in the event of floods and access bridge to the riverbed valley.
With the rains and floods cut off the desert road, "Qeft - short," the north of Luxor, which led to obstruct the passage of tourist buses coming to the province of Luxor.

Major General Mahmoud Jawhar Qena, director of security had received a communication from Major-General Mohammed Badr FBI Director Qena benefit cut the desert road, "Qeft - short" at kilometer 55, the severity of the floods.

Agami, "said Tharwat Chairman of the Chamber travel Luxor the floods, which caused the block have affected tourist groups coming to the province of Luxor, Luxor, pointing out that a tourist bus to receive 500 a day.

The Agami has cut the road causing traffic jams in those buses, which led to the delayed arrival to Luxor, and tourism programs to change completely.

9 killed and injured in Aswan
At least with 3 people were killed, including tourists Inglese and 6 others injured, including two tourists Chinian by heavy rains which have been Aswan.

It was General Naji Al-Hoss Aswan, director of security had received notification from the Aswan Teaching Hospital, referring to the access Zakia Mr. Taha and Mary Shenouda Bokham unmoving bodies and injured two others by the collapse of a house north of Naga-Sheikh Aswan.

In the second incident, two tourists died Inglese named Luc de 4 people and wounded others, including two tourists in a coup Chinian sailboat on the Nile Alkopanjp front of the village north of Aswan.

The heavy rains have covered Aswan on Sunday that resulted in the collapse of 41 houses north of Aswan, and moved the Governor General to Mr. Mustafa houses collapsed and is necessary regardless of compensation and the provision of tents for homeowners, and assigned civil defense teams quickly recovered belongings of the victims under collapsed houses.

And civil defense forces faced great difficulties in access to low-besieged houses away from the water and storm water drains, which led to the call to the armed forces, and excavators, Ministry of Irrigation.

The floods also destroyed some 50 high-rise, high pressure, west and east of the Nile, which led to the interruption of electricity to the province of Aswan since Sunday evening and so far, also disrupted due to flooding of the Nile water laden with silt, which drifted from behind the mountain to the east of the Red Sea.

The Hisham Jamal National Party member in Aswan, that the magnitude of the disaster is very large and increasingly beset with time, pointing out that he has been postponed exams in nearly a dozen schools, and opened chapters to receive the bereaved families, which was also assembled in youth centers, and distribution of blankets and hot meals they . He pointed out that work is underway, an inventory of all affected, in preparation for the placement of apartments belonging to the counties in the regions of Mahmudiyah and friendship in Aswan.

Rear Admiral Mostafa El-Sayed, Aswan Governor it was decided to provide subsidies for citizens who have damaged their homes from flooding and want to rebuild in areas close to a total height of 300 compact and far from storm water drains.

And tried large number of people affected by saving some of their belongings, which floats on the surface of water, while others are trapped inside the sunken houses.

Calling on the people and citizens and civil society organizations, and government agencies in the governorates to the conduct of relief convoys to the bereaved families, including food, clothing, blankets, and medicines.

The floods, which surprised the people of Aswan on Sunday evening, took about half an hour just started Sintered Balraad winds and lightning, followed by a heavy rush of water from the mountains east of the Red Sea, resulting in injury to maintain a standstill, and the destruction of several houses in different areas, power outages, Work was stopped at airports, Aswan and Abu Simbel.


Closure of 3 ports of Suez
The Port Authority closed the port of oil and the port of Suez and the port of literary morning due to bad weather conditions and the authorities attributed the closure of ports on the three to bad weather and increasing wind speed and wave heights and the lack of vision.

Ports have been closed in order to avoid incidents between vessels or a collision with the port berths, where the waves reached a height to 4 meters and wind speeds reaching 30 km / hour.

It is worth noting that bad weather and poor visibility caused the recent crash in the Sevinin in the draft Port of Suez.

Experienced air traffic between airports in Sharm el-Sheikh and Cairo International Airport, confusion due to bad weather at the airport of Sharm el-Sheikh.

Where the departure was delayed flight of EgyptAir No. 22 flights to Sharm El-Sheikh for 8 hours, took off at a quarter past eight this morning, Monday, instead of taking off, scheduled for midnight, Sunday.

The bad weather caused the plane landed at the airport in English at Cairo International Airport, after arriving at dawn today, instead of Sharm el-Sheikh.

Brigadier Ehab Amir, director of operations at Cairo International Airport for the seventh day, that departure was delayed 3 aircraft from Sharm El Sheikh airport, bound for Cairo, adding that air traffic between airports in Cairo and Sharm el-Sheikh began in attendance since this morning.

The Prince Air traffic in Cairo International Airport seen regularly in the take-off flights and arrival.

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5 million meters water threaten the largest dams Sinai collapse
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 - 12:05


The first image to fill cranes after flood waters inundated


Pool caused 5.3 million cubic meters of flood water behind the bridge cranes, the largest dams North Sinai Governorate, in the threat of dam collapse and expose him to danger, especially after the rise of water above it and expand it to several kilometers and continuity of flow until the city of El Arish.

Moussa said Aldlh leaders of the Bedouin in the Sinai, said that the flood pressure on the dam may not be borne by the strongly due to his foot, which was established in 1946 and renovated in the early eighties after the sale has been mired in a large, adding that what has happened has proved that the words of those responsible for the preparation of the torrential rains just talk only The evidence of what happened in El Arish, calling for committees to provide more relief efforts in the central region to help the poor and have lost their sheep and their homes.

On the other hand is still more than 10 persons missing as a result Angrafhm with flood water on Tuesday and the collapse of more than 30 homes and dozens of chalets, and became the village youth established by the Government of more than 120 million pounds on the Mediterranean coast in the range of the torrent.

It is expected to inspect the Prime Minister on Wednesday, accompanied by 6 ministers and the Governor of North Sinai Murat موافى the affected areas, amid confirmation from some sources that the Prime Minister will cross from east to west by Arish small boat was prepared for that to follow up action to secure the city and the face of the torrent.

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After the evacuation of El Arish General Hospital ..
Health in Ismailia declare emergency due to flooding
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 - 22:50

The floods have caused the evacuation of El-Arish General Hospital
Department of Health announced in Ismailia, a state of emergency as of today, Wednesday, by sending a number of ambulances equipped for the northern and central Sinai to meet any of the risk might be exposed citizens.

Dr. Mohamed El Sharkawy, director of health affairs in Ismailia, had been raised to preparations of hospitals and health centers at the county level, based on guidance from the Ministry of Health to help the North Sinai Governorate, in the face of the implications of flooding that has ravaged the province.

He said that the preparations for the status of all hospital services under the General stands ready to receive the conditions from which the central-Arish hospital flooded by a flood on Tuesday, causing power outages and the disruption of electricity generators, and thus stop all the medical devices, which led to the evacuation of patients from the hospital and transported to hospitals in neighboring provinces, including the Ismailis.

The waves of floods that ravage the town of El Arish three days ago has led to the evacuation of patients Arish hospital, after water flooded the stores of medicines and radiology rooms and other areas of the hospital, which led to losses estimated at millions of pounds.

He was forced by officials of the Ministry of Health to maintain the transfer of patients from one hospital to hospitals in central Arish neighboring provinces.
In the same context, medical sources at the General Hospital that there are more than 20 cases found a hospital in Ismailia, all in good condition until this afternoon.

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Despite the lull in the floods ..
Anger in the Sinai, because of poor maintenance aid
Thursday, January 21st, 2010 - 21:07



Control of the people of the North Sinai Governorate anger aid meager addressed to preserve the affected areas in the center, particularly the status of good and which did not exceed one thousand kilometers and 480 kilometers pasta rice, 300 blankets, despite the announcement by one business on the donation of 2000 blankets, and caused the convoy, led by Maj. Gen. Murad موافى Governor of North Sinai in the people's advocate, which required the use of police to disperse them, and rejected by the representatives of the affected villages to get their share of aid to insignificance, as the share of each village only 8 bags.

This comes at a time which did not reach the physical aid to people affected by floods, in a time when hundreds of people's trying to take water from their homes, self-help without any help from the responsible agencies, to coincide with the decline of water on the dam of cranes to 3 meters to reach a height of 131 meters behind the dam approximately 5.3 million cubic meters of water a length of 3 kilometers in the presentation of some 500 meters, and expressed anger at hundreds of Bedouin from wasting more than 20 million cubic meters water in the Mediterranean, although a strong need Sinai.

Site on the seventh day tour through the central Sinai up to the headwaters of the floods, he discovered that relief operations do not feel it affected one of the actual, Moussa said Aldlh, one of the leaders of the tribe of Sinai Bedouins Tarabin, it has to be given compensation for an urgent affected villages in the palms and well, Rafah and Sheikh Zuwaid Arish, the speed compensation of dead and wounded financially as well as those who lost their sheep and their homes collapsed due to flood, demanding real action from civil society organizations in Egypt to stand with the Bedouins.

At the level of the town of El Arish people's own efforts to establish a bridge over the riverbed linking the two banks of the city and has already been movement in which, despite constraints of transit, as it follows the responsible agencies from the side attempts to residents of the village Atef Sadat to save 250 homes from drowning.

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Confirmed that the result of a few initial 1150 houses collapsed ..
Governor of Aswan: The homes would walk away from floods "Watershed"
Thursday, January 21st, 2010 - 20:58

Maj. Gen. Mostafa El-Sayed, Governor of Aswan, the result of the initial inventory of houses collapsed due to floods, whether in whole or in part amounted to 1150 homes, adding to the inventory will also include land and agricultural crops were damaged, according to the directives of President Mubarak during his visit to the affected villages, adding that he was the formation of committees in the villages of executive leadership, and popular party, and to be eligible to review the initial inventory, as will be the use of satellite imagery as well.

The Governor during his meeting with the Commission on Human Rights of the Council chaired by Dr. Edward Ghali said that the distribution of the compensation mechanism approved by President Mubarak will be in accordance with the wishes of compatriots affected, whether in the form of building materials or distribution of a cash payment, noting that home construction will be away from the mountain slopes and storm water drains, and not directly under the rock mountain, which were identified by their positions through the integrated study of the Faculty of Engineering, The governor pointed out that there were divisions ready to land including 400 surface area of each 300 meters.

Maj. Gen. Mustafa Al Sayed said the work of pumping out water, and the opening of youth centers and schools for the affected people and to provide hot meals and dried them, do not remain the efforts of the executive and popular, conservative, pointing out that he will enter medical convoys are equipped to treat any medical conditions appear among people under the auspices of Aswan for the prevention of the spread of any epidemic diseases, praised the increased rate of contributions of businessmen and investors, NGOs and grass-roots leadership and natural resources to support those affected.

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And charges of Meteorological hide "Hurricane" is coming and the failure to determine the magnitude and direction ..
Aswan emergency in anticipation of the new Seoul within 48 hours
Caption: News from Seoul new Aswan within 48 hours

Friday, January 22nd, 2010 - 00:35

An official source confirmed the Aswan governorate, Major General Mustafa al-Sayyid, Aswan Governor declared a state of maximum preparedness in the county, with full executive organs in all sectors in anticipation of renewed flooding again over the forty-eight hours the next, due to Rain behind the Red Sea mountains, which caused flooding in a sweep of a number from the villages of Aswan in the past few days, leaving behind hundreds of houses collapsed, and the sinking of agricultural land, in addition to dozens of power pylons, and high-pressure low.

For its part, has prepared civil defense equipment, suction machines, and mine water, and medical rescue teams, first, and is equipped with mobile electric generators, to ensure continued operation of water plants, and bakeries in the event of a disaster, God forbid, but it has not been announced for the evacuation of any areas of population because of lack of knowledge of places that may be exposed to Seoul.

The source revealed, the Meteorological Agency has not yet been able to determine the strength or direction of storms and time, and the floods that hit the governorates of Aswan and the other three days were the result of a devastating hurricane, and not to dust storms also reported, a weather a few days earlier, demonstrating so that the storm lasted less than half an hour, leaving behind huge disasters are not commensurate with the reports of the Commission, where the hurricane to take off and drape, electrical towers, high pressure from the places they are installed, although the rules Krassanip huge, and has led to the uprooting of trees not under the age of 200 in the root, also accompanied by the hurricane a huge ice balls falling on residential areas directly, and in places other than the usual exposure to Seoul, and far from storm water drains.

The source added that the reports of meteorological briefly alluded to the possibility of the fall of the dust storms would result in Seoul during the forty-eight hours the next level regions and chains of the Red Sea, without so far been unable to determine the paths wind, and torrential rains, which disperses the preparations for the provinces, and reduces the effects of especially as the heightened state of alert had been filed in a number of Upper Egypt at the same time, including Luxor and Aswan, pointing out that the Commission avoid the use of the term Meteorological and refuses to acknowledge it happen, but only in matters Reduced dust storms.

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Egypt: Flash Floods DREF operation no. MDREG009
Source: International Federation of Red Cross And Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)

Date: 21 Jan 2010


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GLIDE no. FL-2010-000012-EGY

The International Federation's Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) is a source of un-earmarked money created by the Federation in 1985 to ensure that immediate financial support is available for Red Cross and Red Crescent response to emergencies. The DREF is a vital part of the International Federation's disaster response system and increases the ability of national societies to respond to disasters.

CHF 257,914 (USD 246,525 or EUR 175,360) has been allocated from the Federation's Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) to support the Egyptian Red Crescent Society (Egyptian RC) in delivering immediate assistance to some 3,500 beneficiaries. Unearmarked funds to repay DREF are encouraged.

Summary:

Heavy wind and rains affected parts of Egypt, the Gaza Strip, Israel and Jordan since 18 January, sweeping away homes, knocking out power lines and cutting roads. Torrential rains in Egypt have claimed the lives of 12 people, left many injured and hundreds displaced by rain-induced flooding in the Sinai Peninsula, the Red Sea port of Hurghada and Aswan Governorate in southern Egypt. A great number of houses in four regions in Egypt (North Sinai, South Sinai, Red Sea and Aswan) have been severely hit by these flash floods. Some 3,500 persons (500 households) have been evacuated. The heavy rains are expected to continue in the next few days with storms moving north and west towards Cairo and the Mediterranean coast. Access to the flooded areas remains a challenge for emergency workers due to roads being submerged.

The Egyptian RC established national and local emergency cells, and immediately mobilized its intervention teams and volunteers to support the affected families through the provision of relief assistance (first aid, psycho-social support, and distribution of relief items the National Society's pre-positioned emergency stocks). The DREF allocation will be mainly used to replenish the stocks of the Egyptian RC as well as to ensure appropriate preparedness and response capacity for the concerned branches in order to secure an efficient service delivery to the affected communities.

This operation is expected to be implemented over three months, and will therefore be completed by the end of April 2010; a Final Report will be made available three months after the end of the operation (by the end of July, 2010).

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Re: Extreme, Unusual Rain Aimed for Egypt

Shaykh al-Azhar given signal move a convoy, "Azhari" to relieve the victims of floods
Saturday, February 6th, 2010 - 19:38

Given day-Azhar Grand Sheikh Mohamed Sayed Tantawi, the signal for the movement of the convoy by the channel Azahari relief of the victims of floods in Aswan, consisting of 20 large transport vehicle loaded with 500 tons of food aid, and 5000 blankets.
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