...new pledges of aid totalling more than $300 million to deal with the disastrous floods that have
swamp
ed large parts of the country. But the UN said millions of flood victims hadn't yet received any aid
whatsoever
. The new pledges came after the UN's emergency relief operation said on Monday that it had still only received about 1/3 of the money it needed. Mike Wooldridge reports from Islamabad.
Aid officials here talk of some progress on the ground over this past week.
They say access to flood victims has increased, as has their own capacity to respond.
But the problem is that they are constantly trying to
catch up with
the disaster that's grown with every new area flooded and, they say, without the funds to enable them to get closer to
bridging
the gap. Pakistan's UN envoy in Geneva said he believed the international community still needed to understand how serious the situation is.
Police in Tanzania have arrested a Kenyan who was attempting to sell an albino man. The police had posed as businessmen interested in using albino body parts for witchcraft. They say the man had tricked the albino, who is also Kenyan, into believing he'd got a job in Tanzania. Instead, the police say, he secretly struck a deal with
undercover
officers to sell the man for more than a quarter of $1 million.
The Turkish authorities say security guards at their embassy in Israel have