Brussels, 22/02/2006 (Agence Europe) - The EU will be cooperating with the UN to aid the victims of the torrential storms that hit the Tindouf region of Algeria recently, leaving some 12,000 Western Saharan families living in refugee camps without shelter. The UN's Civilian Protection Mechanism (CPM, known in French as MIC, run by DG Environment at the Commission) for coordinating national resources that can be mobilised by volunteer countries, has been activated. The CPM's key body, the...