Date: 2 May 2008 Tropical Cyclone Nargis, which hit the Ayeyarwady Delta region in Myanmar in May 2008, was the worst natural disaster to hit the country in recorded history. The UN reported a loss of close to 200,000 lives, with more than 2.4 million more affected....
Date: October – November 2011 Heavy torrential storms battered the Southeast Asian region in late 2011, resulting in large-scale flooding that affected millions. The floods claimed more than 2,000 lives across the region, displaced hundreds of thousands more and...
Date: July 2003 The intense heat wave that struck Afghanistan in July 2003 resulted in a mass exodus to the Durand Line – the Afghan-Pakistan border – close to Sada, Peshawar and Dera Ismail Khan. An appeal for international humanitarian aid was made. Mercy Relief,...
Date: October 2001 – October 2003 The war against Afghanistan from 2001-2014 was part of the wider global war on terrorism known as Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) that followed the 9/11 attacks in the US. Mercy Relief stepped in to provide aid...
Date: 25 April 2015 Magnitude: 7.8 On 25 April 2015, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Nepal, claiming almost 9,000 lives, destroying more than 600,000 houses, and triggering an avalanche on Mount Everest that killed 21 and made it the deadliest day on the mountain in...
Date: July – August 2010 Torrential rains during the monsoon season in 2010 put a fifth of Pakistan under water including the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Sindh, Punjab and Balochistan regions. Close to 2,000 lives were lost and 21 million others affected by the...
