51. At least two million people have been made homeless by the fighting which erupted in early April, and hundreds of thousands have fled the country. 52. The Vietnamese Red Cross appealed for emergency aid for hundreds of thousands made homeless by floods in the Mekong Delta as waters continued to rise Monday across the region. 53. Thousands of people have been made homeless. 54. They said they had been made homeless after losing everything in the failed investment schemes. 55. Unusually heavy rains have hit a number of other west African countries this year including Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon, causing dozens of deaths and making thousands homeless. 56. It has launched aid operations for half a million people made homeless or affected by malnutrition in the wake of disastrous floods. 57. Kong Xiangyun, Shanghai office director of the Anhui provincial government, told AFP that the province needed medicines, food and temporary shelters for millions made homeless. 58. Reports reaching the capital speak of hundreds of families being made homeless, and thousands of hectares of crops destroyed. 59. Russian authorities have evacuated to the mainland several hundred Kuril islanders made homeless by an earthquake, Interfax news agency reported Monday. 60. Several thousand people were made homeless and crops were destroyed. |