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Rupert

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Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System
« on: August 08, 2021, 08:37:57 PM »
https://gdacs.org/

I find it interesting that there is only 1 red on their board....  Madagascar.  That must be bad.  Why have I not heard about it?

Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System

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The Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System (GDACS) is a joint initiative of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and the European Commission that serves to consolidate and improve the dissemination of disaster-related information, in order to improve the coordination of international relief efforts.[1] It was established in 2004 and is a multi-hazard disaster monitor and alert system for earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, volcanoes, and tropical cyclones. It was created to reduce the various monitor websites for the different disaster types. It started as GDAS, but was later coupled with the coordination information system of OCHA (the OCHA Virtual OSOCC). GDACS collects near real-time hazard information and combines this with demographic and socio-economic data to perform a mathematical analysis of the expected impact. This is based on the magnitude of the event and possible risk for the population. The result of this risk analysis is distributed by the GDACS website and alerts are sent via email, fax, and SMS to subscribers in the disaster relief community, and all other persons that are interested in this information
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Re: Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System
« Reply #1 on: August 10, 2021, 03:09:46 PM »
The scrolling headlines give new meaning to the phrase doom scrolling

>>Madagascar

Pandemic + Drought + High Mortality, I think
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Approximately 1.14 million people, or 35% of Madagascar’s population, are food insecure. This figure is nearly double what it was last year due to the second wave of COVID-19.
https://borgenproject.org/humanitarian-crisis-in-madagascar/

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Re: Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System
« Reply #2 on: September 07, 2021, 02:52:35 AM »
Madagascar is on the brink of famine
Donors are trying to help people hit by climate change, pandemic and bad governance
https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/madagascar-is-on-the-brink-of-famine/21804098

It's tragic that famine still exists in a world that has more than enough food to feed everyone.

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Re: Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System
« Reply #3 on: September 07, 2021, 04:45:54 PM »
We had a documentary on TV here in South Africa about a month ago regarding the situation in Madagascar - when South Africa takes pity on another country then it must be bad!