Reports

ADDITIONAL AUSAID SUPPLY FLIGHT An additional AusAID supply flight is expected today in the Western provincial town of Kiunga. It will take food and fuel for the Catholic Diocese, allowing it to continue its health and education work. Yesterday the…

Tomorrow (27th September) marks the first anniversary of the fall of Kabul to the Taleban. During this time, the Taleban have brought their style of law and order in the areas under their control. But the brutal war in…

(10:35am AEST) The haze from uncontrolled fires in Indonesia has spread to Thiland and the Philippines as smog-shrouded Southeast Asian countries brace for a tourism slowdown. Australia, the United States, Britain, Germany and Denmark have issued travel advisories warning their…

(6:51am AEST) The Haze generated by uncontrolled farm and forest fires in Indonesia has now spread to southern Thailand. Government officials say nine Thai provinces, including the popular tourist destination of Phuket, have been affected so far. The World Bank…

Ref: DHAGVA - 97/0517 DISASTER SITUATION 1. Hunger and a cholera outbreak in Indonesia's eastermost province of Irian Jaya have claimed more than 265 lives since mid-August, the official Antara news agency reported on 25 September 1997. The famine and cholera…

DATE=9/26/97 TYPE=BACKGROUND REPORT NUMBER=5-37641 TITLE=AFGHAN ANNIVERSARY BYLINE=SARAH HORNER DATELINE=PESHAWAR CONTENT= VOICED AT: EDITORS NOTE: THE TALEBAN CAPTURED KABUL SEPTEMBER 27, 1996 INTRO: ONE YEAR AGO THE TALEBAN MARCHED INTO THE AFGHAN CAPITAL, KABUL, VOWING TO BRING THEIR STRICT ISLAMIC RULE TO THE CITY AS WELL AS…

(extract) WFP EMERGENCY REPORT Issued weekly by the United Nations World Food Programme Report No. 39 of 1997 Date: 26 September 1997 This report includes: A) Democratic People's Republic of Korea B) West Africa: Sierra Leone C) East Africa: Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania,…

(8:35pm AEST) Indonesia's president Suharto has declared that the forest fires raging in his country are a national disaster. Indonesia correspondent Michael Maher reports from Sumatra that more than 600-thousand-hectares are now reported to have been burnt. President Suharto is now…

AA41 25/9/97 I am pleased to announce funding of $500 000 for Afghanistan's demining program. This additional support from Australia will help prevent this highly successful demining program from scaling back its operations due to a lack of funds. These…

DATE=9/25/97 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-220390 TITLE=INDONESIA / FIRES (L-ONLY) BYLINE=JENNY GRANT DATELINE=JAKARTA CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: THE INDONESIAN GOVERNMENT SAYS IT IS CONFIDENT THAT THOUSANDS OF FIRE FIGHTERS NOW BATTLING THE BLAZES, CAN CONTROL FOREST FIRES WHICH HAVE BEEN BURNING IN THAT COUNTRY FOR TWO MONTHS.…