Reports

For official use only OVERVIEW An on-the-spot review by FAO and WFP has just been completed to evaluate the effects of high intensity rainfall and floods, which occurred in the last week of July 1996, on crop production and food supply.…

UPDATE No. 9 North Korea Floods Appeal - 9541KP Dear Friends, ACTion ACT/DCA Second Shipment - ETA week 39 (23 September) Further our details in Update 8, we are now sharing herebelow with you the distribution plan Danchurchaid received on 30 August…

The title of this report is taken from a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) report of June 1995 on the repatriation of over 200,000 Burmese refugees, most of them members of the Rohingya Muslim…

Ref: DHAGVA - 96/0298 1. THE UNDP/DHA RESIDENT REPRESENTATIVE IN ISLAMABAD PROVIDES THE FOLLOWING UPDATE ON THE FLOOD SITUATION IN LAHORE AND OTHER PARTS OF PUNJAB PROVINCE. LAHORE 2. THE RAIN WATERS HAVE RECEDED AND THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES, WITH ASSISTANCE OF THE…

SEOUL, Aug 30 (Reuter) - South Korea shipped $1 million worth of powdered milk to North Korea on Friday as part of a relief effort to ease child malnutrition related to serious food shortages in the Stalinist nation. A Seoul unification…

Ref: DHAGVA - 96/0296 1. FOLLOWING CONTACT WITH THE EMERGENCY RELIEF CELL OF THE CABINET DIVISION, THE FLOOD CONTROL OPERATIONS ROOM OF THE ARMY HEADQUARTERS IN RAWALPINDI AND THE OFFICE OF THE PUNJAB RELIEF COMMISSIONER IN LAHORE, THE UNDP/DHA RESIDENT…

ROME (AP) - The first U.S. civilian ship to dock in North Korea since 1951 was being unloaded Friday as part of an expanded emergency food aid program for flood-stricken North Korea. The MV Tampa Bay, carrying 14,300 tons of…

U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUREAU FOR HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE (BHR) OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA) NORTH KOREA - Floods/Food Shortage Background: In 1995, severe flooding, caused by torrential rains from July to August, swept through the western and…

TOKYO -- A U.S. congressman who ended a four-day trip to North Korea on Saturday said that North Koreans were in desperate need of food and that the Communist government had asked the United States for more aid. "They are…

DATE=8/26/96 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-202231 TITLE=U-S/NOKOREA AID (S ONLY) BYLINE=VICTOR BEATTIE DATELINE=WASHINGTON CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: THE UNITED STATES SAYS IT IS PREPARED TO SEND EVEN MORE FOOD AID TO NORTH KOREA, REELING FROM TWO YEARS OF FLOODING THAT HAS DESTROYED HOMES AND FARMLAND. V-O-A'S VICTOR BEATTIE REPORTS…