UN Issues Urgent Appeal
The UN has issued and urgent appeal for $25 million in emergency aid to Tajikistan. Why, you ask?
To save The Tajiks from the extremely cold winter conditions.
The UN has issued an appeal for donor aid to help the Central Asian republic of Tajikistan.
A severe energy crisis coupled with an unusually cold winter is affecting the lives of millions of people.
The UN says it needs $25m (£13m) to help Tajikistan deal with the worst energy crisis it has ever experienced.
Much of the country has been left without heat and electricity, and the main hydropower stations do not have enough water to run their turbines.
In many places the temperatures are well below zero, and frozen pipes have left people without drinking water.
As people spend more on fuel and wood to keep warm, they have less money left to feed themselves with.
There are severe food shortages and the UN says additional fuel and food supplies are key.
Complicating matters, however, is the fact that even if food and relief supplies arrive, there is no way to reach the hardest hit areas due to the heavy snow. The BBC reports that Tajikistan has experienced the worst snowfalls ever recorded. With the hydroelectric stations frozen, there simply is no way to get enough food and energy into the country.
Energy, Environment, World news | Gaius Monday, 18 February , 2008
By Rich Horton, Monday, 18 February , 2008 @ 5:04 pm
Can I send them carbon credits instead…or would that make them colder?
By Rich Horton, Monday, 18 February , 2008 @ 5:05 pm
Who wants to design the bumberstickers?
"You Prius Killed Someone In Tajikistan Today"
By nichevo, Monday, 18 February , 2008 @ 9:06 pm
I forget, is this one of those ‘Stans that at first let us land there for Afghanistan, then because of the Russians, or flakiness or greed or whatever, withdrew basing rights?If not, perhaps we could help them.If so, I propose a mammoth airdrop of OBL, Ahmadinejad and Putin dolls, all made out of excrement.
By Anthony (Los Angeles), Wednesday, 20 February , 2008 @ 12:26 pm
If only we had signed Kyoto! Curse George Bush and the NeoCon/Oil Company conspiracy(tm)!/tinfoilhat