(i) Guyana was severely affected by drought, while its gold mining industry was severely affected by water shortages

90. Kibungo prefecture is more severely affected by the illegal occupation of property, with 27,000 cases.

In 1991 and 1992, more than 20 million people in this region were defined as severely drought affected.

Mozambique was also severely affected by floods in 1977 and 1978.

15. The Palestinian economy has been severely affected by Israeli closures.

20. Approximately 200 small business operations were severely affected by the volcanic crisis.

Association congresses were rather less affected, but budgets were minimized and attendances dropped severely.

There's two billions of people who will be severely affected by climate change so on.

65. Africa was most affected by the refugee problem, which had severely impaired its development.

Furthermore, traditional telecommunications systems were often severely affected by disasters such as earthquakes, floods or hurricanes.

Efforts to protect the 2005 cashew crop from being severely affected by the locust invasion will continue.

The strike severely affected the delivery of education, health and social services to refugees for the period.

The UNRWA education programme in the occupied Palestinian territory has been severely affected by the ongoing crisis.

They are implemented chiefly in severely affected areas of the Sahel, North Africa, Southern Africa and East Africa.

The armed conflict, which severely affected the population of the Republic Chechen and Russian speaking alike has ceased.

give priority to dryland development (in those countries severely affected by desertification) in the programming of UNDP resources

The electricity subsector was severely affected by Hurricane Luis, with damage to poles, lines, transformers and other equipment.

This means that, in recent years, women have been more severely affected by the epidemic its incidence has been highest in the most sexually active age group (25 to 44 years).

The family as a social unit has also been severely affected by the impact of deaths from HIV AIDS,

Farmers, who represent more than half the workforce, are suffering severely.

Syria also states that closer examination of the degradation and pitting of the decoration reveals that columns and arches particularly in those areas sheltered from the rain appear to be more severely affected.

The limited legal qualifications of a majority of judges in Afghanistan has severely affected the quality of decisions being rendered.

Those measures were causing serious damage to the Palestinian economy, which had been severely affected by the destruction of infrastructure.

Despite a reported bumper harvest in 2004, large areas of the country remain severely affected by drought and food insecurity.

47 The most recent estimates are 240,000 dead and 158,000 persons severely affected (see A 60 86 E 2005 77).

Systemic, large scale and high level corrupt practices are more severely punished.

More than half of the least developed countries are considered severely indebted .

In societies severely affected by the problem, urgent measures aimed at creating practical mechanisms for countering kidnapping need to be taken.

It was argued that for most severely affected neighbouring countries on site visits by ad hoc assessment missions would be unavoidable.

At the same time, it is able to deal with abuse more severely.

Some 375 school in a box kits were distributed to the most severely affected schools in Gaza, serving an estimated 30,000 students.

Seventy villages suffered 50 per cent destruction, while others were severely damaged, including some of the villages affected by the February earthquake.

The living conditions of the refugees have been severely affected by violence and by Israel's closures and its destruction of properties and livelihood.

The problems of food and hunger were likely to continue, with developing countries most severely affected because they were least able to overcome them.

So many more people would have been affected.

It was also observed that women systematically suffered more severely from poverty and violence and their rights were more often ignored.

In Haiti, the eastern coastal city of Gonaïves was the most severely affected 1,500 people were killed and 300,000 were injured or suffered property damage.

In the occupied Palestinian territory, the living conditions of the refugees have been severely affected by violence, Israeli closures and destruction of property and livelihoods.

The Managing Director of IMF stated that the international community must support the adjustment programmes of the countries most severely affected by the Asian crisis.

On the other hand, some crimes are more severely punished when they are committed against women.

The crisis that had gripped the occupied Palestinian territory since the start of Israel's military campaign in September 2000 had severely affected the refugees, who constituted more than half of the population and were among its poorest and most vulnerable members.

Droughts alone affected more than 20 million people worldwide.

Farmers who were not affected are more affluent now.

However, the funding provided through that channel has been steadily declining in recent years, severely hampering the relief, recovery and reconstruction efforts of disaster affected countries.

25. Mr. Khalid (Sudan) said that social development continued to lag behind technological and economic development in many countries and that children were most severely affected.