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Exclusive Syrian Centre for Policy Research says 470,000 deaths is twice UN’s figure with ‘human development ruined’ after 45% of population is displaced A man carries a child from a building following a reported barrel bomb attack by Syrian government forces on Aleppo. Some 50,000 people have fled the recent upsurge in fighting there. Photograph: Karam Al-Masri/AFP/Getty Ian Black Middle East editor Syria’s national wealth, infrastructure and institutions have been “almost obliterated” by the “catastrophic impact” of nearly five years of conflict, a new report has found. Fatalities caused by war, directly and indirectly, amount to 470,000, according to the Syrian Centre for Policy Research (SCPR) – a far higher total than the figure of 250,000 used by the United Nations until it stopped collecting statistics 18 months ago. In all, 11.5% of the country’s population have been killed or injured since the crisis erupted in March 2011, the report estimates. The n...

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The Iringa District Commissioner Richard Kasesela (in sun glass) and his entourage took off their shoes and paddled through the new massive stream of the flood water in the neighborhood yesterday. (Photo: Friday Simbaya) Climate change is already beginning to transform life on Earth. Around the globe, seasons are shifting, temperatures are climbing and sea levels are rising.  And meanwhile, our planet must still supply us – and all living things – with air, water, food and safe places to live.  If we don't act now, climate change will rapidly alter the lands and waters we all depend upon for survival, leaving our children and grandchildren with a very different world; this is according to the reports. Meanwhile, Iringa Region has already started feeling the impact of climate change in which some parts of Iringa district has experienced floods and outbreak of cholera in Mapogoro and Mbolimboli villages respectively. The Kitanewa neighborh...