03/11/2011
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IRIN
COLOMBO, 11 March 2011 (IRIN) - As the Sri Lankan government launches a cash-for-work programme in areas hit by recent flooding, following similar schemes in the former conflict areas in the north, experts warn of potential pitfalls of such schemes.
02/08/2011
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www.trust.org
World Concern is distributing food and emergency supplies to approximately 9,000 people in Northern and Eastern Sri Lanka as the latest round of flooding there has displaced 320,000 people, according to Sri Lankan Disaster Management officials.
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.