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Madagascar seeks international aid after tropical storm kills 68
BY LOVASOA RABARY
NAIROBI Wed Jan 28, 2015 10:14am EST
(Reuters) -...
Sixty-eight people were killed and 130,000 displaced when the tropical storm Chedza hit Madagascar on Jan. 16, the National Bureau of Risk Management and Disaster said.
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"The country is in a state of disaster and officially appeals for aid both nationally and internationally," Prime Minister Jean Ravelonarivo said on national radio on Wednesday.
Ravelonarivo estimated the damage at more than 100 billion ariary, roughly $40 million, and said major flooding had "caused massive degradation of key infrastructure".
Madagascar is one of the world's poorest nations and is currently also battling a plague epidemic which has killed at least 57 people since August.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/28/us-madagascar-aid-idUSKBN0L11UP20150128
BY LOVASOA RABARY
NAIROBI Wed Jan 28, 2015 10:14am EST
(Reuters) -...
Sixty-eight people were killed and 130,000 displaced when the tropical storm Chedza hit Madagascar on Jan. 16, the National Bureau of Risk Management and Disaster said.
...
"The country is in a state of disaster and officially appeals for aid both nationally and internationally," Prime Minister Jean Ravelonarivo said on national radio on Wednesday.
Ravelonarivo estimated the damage at more than 100 billion ariary, roughly $40 million, and said major flooding had "caused massive degradation of key infrastructure".
Madagascar is one of the world's poorest nations and is currently also battling a plague epidemic which has killed at least 57 people since August.
...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/28/us-madagascar-aid-idUSKBN0L11UP20150128