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  • Slash-and-burn agriculture is common in Vietnam’s mountainous areas. This practice can cause soil erosion, making the land more unstable and exacerbating the risks of landslides during heavy rains.
  • From his window, Giang Hong Ky can see the path of a landslide that killed his son’s family in June. It took a full day for villagers to find the bodies, which were buried under thick layers of rocks and soil.
  • People in remote northern villages say floods are common in the monsoon rainy season, but they began unusually early this year. Giang Hong Ky, a 65-year-old farmer, lost four family members when a landslide barrelled into his village in northern Vietnam.
  • June landslides wiped out an entire village in Ta Ngao Commune in northern Vietnam’s Lai Chau Province, including a local school and a newly built bridge.
  • Armed guards watch over a polling station
    Security is tight outside of polling stations.
  • Map of North-Kivu province in Democratic Republic of the Congo showing 30 August Ebola outbreak epicentres, and towns of Beni, Mangina, and Oicha

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