Reuters AlertNet - YEMEN: Tsunami damage over US $1 million - UNEP assessment

Reuters AlertNet - YEMEN: Tsunami damage over US $1 million - UNEP assessment: "SANA, 22 February (IRIN) - The effects of December's Asian tsunami on Yemen's shores will cost more than US $1 million, according to an initial assessment conducted by the Ministry of Environment and the Environmental Emergency Unit (EEU), together with an emergency mission of the United Nation's Environment Programme (UNEP).
'We were lucky: our coasts are not populated, otherwise it would have been much worse,' Abdulkhaliq al-Ghaberi, director-general of the EEU, told IRIN in the capital, Sana. "