01/29/2011
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Al Jazeera
Recent flooding in eastern Sri Lanka destroyed thousands of homes, devastated the rice crop and drowned thousands of livestock. A million people, 40 per cent of them children, are at risk of serious hunger as a result. Some of the worst-affected areas were only just recovering from decades of conflict and the tsunami when the floods hit, and the people who live there are facing their third humanitarian emergency in less than 10 years.
01/20/2011
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blog, Green blog, The New York Times
Record monsoon rains driven by an unusually strong La Niña weather pattern in the Pacific have caused devastating floods in Sri Lanka, killing dozens and driving more than 300,000 people from their homes in recent weeks, the United Nations said in an urgent appeal for relief funds on Wednesday.
01/18/2011
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AFP
A top UN official due in Sri Lanka Wednesday to assess flood relief needs will also visit civilians displaced by the island's Tamil separatist conflict, the UN said.