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OAU urged to set up disaster management commission

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    A Ghanaian parliamentarian has asked the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) to establish a disaster management commission that would pool talents and resources from different African countries for their mutual benefit, PANA reported on Thursday.

    Hackman Owusu-Agyemang said the recent events in Mozambique and Madagascar had shown that “in spite of weather forecasts which predicted the natural disaster, the continent seems to have been caught most unprepared for it,” PANA reported.

    He called on the OAU to consider setting up the commission quickly to ensure that Africa is not “caught by surprise next time”.

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