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Middle East

 

The Middle East or sometimes refered as  Near East is a region which encompasses Western Asia and North East Africa comprising of  different ethnic groups  as Arabs, Persians, and Turks  whitch have the largest populations while Kurds, Azeris, Copts, Jews, Assyrians, Maronites, Circassians, Somalis, Armenians, Arameans and Druze  the ethnic groups with minor but significant populations  in the region.

 

Some Middle East countries  face problems in disaster preparedness and are unable to cooperate with neihboring coutries in disaster response. They are  affected by  natural disaster such as earthquakes, floods, landslides and drought without exluding the posibility for manmade disarsters. They face  very high risk from earthquakes with concentrated populations around fault lines and only lately  have started assessing hospital responce  for earthquakes 

 

 According to reports the last 25 years the region has suffered 276 disasters of diferent types  in which 100,000 people have died, 10 million affected and 1.5 million were left homeless.

 

Besides  modern geopolitical evolutions in the wider Middle East region have contributed in the instability overall. following the arab revolt in 1916 against the Ottoman Empire ( allied with Germany)  independent Arab states in the region were established including Palestine. Soon  after the declaration for the establishment of "a Jewish state in Palestine" was  announced resulting

 to major problems which continue until today.

 

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