Pakistan

Well Band Aid, then Live Aid I guess. See also USA for Africa, &c.

Yeah I'm not arguing we normally do a good job at covering disasters in "developing" countries, but this seems worse than usual. I also thought of the Ethiopian famine.

It's a very different time. The Ethiopian famine is alluded to but the solutions need to be very different.

https://gal-dem.com/pakistan-floods-mutual-aid-organisers/

The consequences of all this water also include malaria, dengue, cholera and other diseases, and reduced access for the little medical assistance there is to reach stranded populations.

Yup indeed, mentioned here

Sri Lanka - Pakistan - Bangladesh
Chartbook #153 surveys the polycrisis in South Asia. How finance, energy, geopolitics and climate shocks intersect. https://t.co/n1qg82ZzRD pic.twitter.com/SOPLeWXYKW

— Adam Tooze (@adam_tooze) September 22, 2022

Pakistan—notorious for its 23 IMF bailouts, for being a nuclear-armed state with active terrorist groups, for suffering climate catastrophe of biblical proportions—is being screwed by its domestic elites.

Our latest @polycrisis newsletter is daaark.https://t.co/2wz48agCbq

— Albert Pinto (@70sBachchan) February 24, 2023

written before Khan just got arrested and bundled into the back of a van by cops wearing riot gear, politics is fairly fucking crazy in Pakistan.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-67281691

"In the last two months around 200,000 Afghan nationals have already left Pakistan ahead of the 1 November deadline, according to the Pakistan government. The recent daily returnee figures are three times higher than normal, says the Taliban refugee ministry spokesman Abdul Mutaleb Haqqani."

Pakistan is planning to forcibly deport 1.7 million Afghan refugees. This is a direct violation of the basic right to asylum and a death sentence to the many Afghans who would be targeted by the Taliban. Pakistan must change course. https://t.co/fX9kcyN9fg

— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) November 2, 2023

Terrible