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South Carolina governor Nikki Haley: floods are region’s ‘worst in 1,000 years’
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 4th, 2015
Guardian: South Carolina governor Nikki Haley paused in efforts to cope with the record-breaking rain that hit her state over the weekend to say the resultant floods were “the worst in a thousand years”.
“This is the worst flooding in the lowcountry [the region around the South Carolina coast] for a thousand years, that’s how big this is,” Haley said at a Sunday afternoon press conference. “That’s what South Carolina is dealing with right now. The Congaree river is at its highest level since 1936.
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At least 73 dead in guatemala mudslide, hundreds feared lost
Posted by NBC: None Given on October 4th, 2015
NBC: Hopes faded of finding any remaining survivors of a massive landslide in Guatemala that killed at least 73 people, even as families scrabbled through rubble hoping to find the bodies of loved-ones, with hundreds of others still missing.
Distraught relatives of the victims shoveled alongside diggers through the mounds of earth that destroyed homes in Santa Catarina Pinula on the southeastern flank of Guatemala City after the collapse of a hillside on Thursday night.
Every fresh batch of earth...
Africa’s broken food security value chain: unravelling hidden fortune
Posted by Modern Ghana: None Given on October 4th, 2015
Modern Ghana: Despite holding 65 per cent of the world's arable land and ten per cent of internal renewable fresh water sources , Africa's food import bill, excluding fish, was at US$35billion in 2011 and imports of food exceed exports by thirty per cent . In addition, post-harvest losses (PHLs) alone account for food losses worth US$4 billion annually . This is food enough to feed 48 million people annually . It is estimated that the annual PHLs in cereal grains, roots, tubers, fruits, vegetables, meat, milk...