A week-long training programme for National Service Scheme (NSS) volunteers in disaster management and mitigation activities began here on Monday.

FEMA has announced the agency is establishing a new university called National Disaster & Emergency Management University (NDEMU) to help train emergency managers to keep pace with the rapidly ...

The Rapid Action Force (RAF), a riot-control wing of the CRPF, is now involved in disaster relief and rescue operations. Comprising 340 troops, these specialized teams, trained alongside the NDRF, are ...

In the first in this series of articles on disaster recovery (DR) planning, we examined risk and business impact assessment as the initial building block, and then looked at development of the DR plan ...

Under the patronage of Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs H E Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani, ...

PESHAWAR, Sept 7: University of Peshawar Vice-chancellor Dr Azmat Hayat Khan has said that seeing the growing need for trained and skilled manpower at times of calamities, disaster preparedness and ...

Africa experiences a variety of natural disasters with floods and droughts documented as the most prevalent and impactful. Other significant hazards include landslides, storms, earthquakes, volcanic ...

SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - One local emergency management team is reaching out to the community to make sure they know what to do in an emergency. Woodbury County Emergency Management held ‘Disaster Survival ...

TOMPKINS COUNTY, N.Y. (WBNG) -- The Citizens Preparedness Corps, or CPC, provides the community with resources and tools needed to prepare for any type of disaster or emergency. A training session ...

ACCRA, Ghana, Nov. 11-- The U.S. Embassy in Ghana issued the following news release on Nov. 10: On November 9, U.S. Ambassador to Ghana Stephanie S. Sullivan officially presented a skills-based ...

During discussions, officers reviewed the existing disaster response framework and discussed the strategic transition towards ...

Julie Anderson, Racine County director of public works and development services, talks on a two-way radio next to Mark Yehlen, the City of Racine’s public works commissioner, during a simulated ...