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UN-HABITAT Disaster Management programme helps governments and local authorities rebuild in countries recovering from war or natural disasters. In the first half of the year 2003, for example, the cost accrued by natural disasters was 24 billion dollars with an estimated 60 million civilians affect in some 30 conflicts. The agency is working, or has worked in Afghanistan, Angola, Bangladesh, Burundi, the Caribbean, Central Asia, China, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Kenya, Kosovo, Malawi, Mozambique, Nepal, Rwanda, Serbia and Montenegro, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Timor Leste and Vietnam, and Indian Ocean rim countries hit a giant tsunami wave.
 
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