HANOI nike air max 97 nz , Nov. 4 (Xinhua) -- Typhoon Damrey has claimed at least 11 human lives and left many people missing after striking Vietnam's central region on Saturday morning, local authorities said.
The 11 victims are from the three central provinces of Khanh Hoa, Phu Yen and Binh Dinh, the provincial People's Committee said nike air vapormax flyknit nz , adding that the severe typhoon also ripped off roofs of thousands of houses and uprooted many trees.
In Khanh Hoa alone, Damrey has killed seven people, left two people missing, and injured five others nike air vapormax womens nz , it said.
A storm batters a street in Nha Trang, as Typhoon Damrey descends on southern Vietnam, in this still image taken from social media video, November 4 nike air vapormax mens nz , 2017. @SINITSYN_NIKITAvia REUTERS
The typhoon swept through Vietnam's central highlands region on Saturday morning, and is forecast to reach Cambodia's southern provinces on Saturday evening, but will still cause rain and winds in Vietnam's central region in the next few days.
Fairly strong winds on Saturday morning destroyed or damaged several welcome gates and billboards on the key roads along My Son beach in central Da Nang city, which will host the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders' Week from Nov. 6-11.
According to the Da Nang Department of Agriculture and Rural Development nike air vapormax 2018 nz , the municipal authorities have put forth three scenarios in which the city will have to respond to the typhoon, floods and high waves, even tsunamis to help ensure safety and security of the APEC week with the participation of some 10,000 delegates nike air vapormax nz , 2,000 chief executive officers of leading firms in APEC economies, and 3,000 reporters.
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MADRID, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- Around 1,000 sub-Saharan immigrants failed to scale the border fence on what was another assault on the frontier separating the Spanish enclave of Ceuta from Morocco, the Spanish Civil Guard confirmed on Tuesday.
The attempt to cross the border into what is effectively European Union territory happened at around 6 a.m. local time on Tuesday morning nike air max 2017 mens , approximately 24 hours after 187 immigrants successfully stormed a frontier post to gain access to the enclave.
Monday's border crossing had caught both Spanish and Moroccan security forces by surprise, but on Tuesday they were expecting another mass assault on the frontier and on this occasion no immigrants were able to make their way into Ceuta, although three Civil Guards and around a dozen Moroccan agents were injured.
The Civil Guard informs that some of the immigrants had used excessive violence in their attempt to cross into Ceuta, employing stones nike air max 2017 womens nz , rudimentary lances and clubs in their attempts to breach the frontier.
Meanwhile, photos published in the Spanish "El Pais" newspaper on Tuesday show police officers using batons to beat the immigrants who were able to rush the frontier post on Monday.
One of the policemen suffered a double fracture of his leg in the incident and the images showed it happened as he attempted to kick one of the immigrants who was running through the border post.
Elsewhere Spanish Maritime Rescue services confirm the rescue of a dozen Algerians from a rubber dinghy in which they were attempting to cross the Mediterranean from North Africa.
The dinghy was accepted by the rescue vessel "Guardamar Polimina" around 55 nautical miles south of the Spanish port of Almeria and those onboard were taken to port and treated by the Red Cross.
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JUBA, June 15 (Xinhua) -- Oil-rich South Sudan before conflict broke out two years ago was being touted as a potential bread basket in the region but it has failed to diversify its economy from the risky black gold that has disrupted its macro-economic stability due to global shocks.
Analysts say the still fragile country just emerging from civil conflict should prioritise improving its non-oil revenue dwarfed by the over-reliance on oil exports to finance 98 percent of its fiscal budget.
But little seems being done in agriculture and other sectors like mining which could help widen the country's meager resource revenue and attract foreign direct investments reducing on the bloated civil service.
This is despite having in place the five-year agricultural sector policy framework and the 25-year Comprehensive Agricultural Master Plan (CAMP) and yet the government continues to allocate less than 2 percent budget to the sector while security and defence take 40 percent - lion share of funding for the last decade since signing of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) with Sudan.
Also the country aims to produce 2.5 million tons of food annually from 1.5 million tons to cover a cereal deficit of 400,000 tons annually but to achieve this increased funding towards the sector is inevitable.
The United Nations estimates about 5.3 million South Sudanese face starvation due to food insecurity and yet less than 4 percent of the country's arable land is under cultivation.
Despite having more than 36 million livestock the prospects of achieving modern and profitable agriculture remains a pipeline dream due to cultural and social hindrances leaving the sector backward.
According to Professor Mathew Udo, the Undersecretary in the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, South Sudan needs to increase annual fiscal funding from the dismal 1.5 percent to about 5 p.