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Weekly Report - 12 September 2019 (WR-19-36)
National emergency declared in Paraguay over Chaco fires
The fires in the Brazilian Amazon might have received the most international news coverage, but the Paraguayan government was compelled to declare a national emergency on 10 September as a result of forest fires that have been raging in the northern departments of Alto Paraguay and Boquerón, located in the country’s western Chaco geographical region.
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