Tuesday, August 30, 2005
The U.S. will pay for an emergency supplies warehouse in Guyana to help the country more quickly respond to natural disasters.
The U.S. and other countries had to rush aid supplies to Guyana after severe flooding in December and January swamping parts of the capital, Georgetown. Ate least 35 people died then, mostly from disease.
The flooding, triggered by the heaviest rains in a century, also caused economic losses estimated at 500 million U.S dollars, according to United Nations figures.
The warehouse will be built near a Guyana military base about 25 miles outside of Georgetown.
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