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PERUVIAN GOVERNMENT DECLARES STATE OF EMERGENCY IN 796 DISTRICTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY DUE TO RAINS ASSOCIATED WITH EL NIÑO
- Peru has declared a 60-day state of emergency in 796 districts, covering about 40% of the country, due to severe weather threats from El Nino.
- El Nino is described as a periodic warming of the Pacific Ocean that disrupts global weather, causing droughts and heavy rains in affected areas.
- The emergency allows the government to take extraordinary measures to reduce very high risks, with coordination between regional, local, and national authorities.
- Over 1.9 million people in Peru are in severe flood zones, and about 2.6 million face very high risks of landslides.
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Peru has placed 800 of its municipalities in a state of emergency in the face of the "imminent danger" of heavy rains associated with the natural climate phenomenon El Niño, the government announced on Thursday.
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The central objective of the measure is to coordinate and implement immediate actions to reduce the very high risk involved.
More than 9.3 million Peruvians at high risk of floods and landslides
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Leaning Left4Leaning Right7Center1Last UpdatedBias Distribution59% Right
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- 59% of the sources lean Right
59% Right
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R 59%
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