Reports

Dear Friends, Please reference our Alert dated 15 July 1997 reporting on the floods and our immediate response of US$ 25,000 to Social Health and Educational (SHED) Board's request for assistance. Thereafter the ACT Coordinating Office also sent US$ 15,000…

AA42 25/9/97 I have instructed Australia's ambassador to Indonesia to make a detailed assessment of the situation currently affecting Indonesia in relation to forest fires and drought. He will report to me in the next few days on the kinds…

Supply flight set to continue AusAID, Australia's Agency for International Development will today arrange for a Hercules to deliver essential supplies to PNG. The flight will take medical supplies, food and fuel for the Catholic Diocese in Western Province for…

By Nick Macfie SINGAPORE (Reuter) - The United States and Britain cautioned travellers to parts of Southeast Asia hit by an unprecedented smog crisis while the World Bank offered emergency aid. The smog, a thick blanket of smoke trapping everyday industrial…

DISASTER SITUATION 1. Parts of several countries in South-East Asia, including Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Philippines, Thailand, and Indonesia, are affected by heavy air pollution, primarily caused by exceptionally large-scale forest fires in several regions of Indonesia. 2. These fires were…

Agency readies for "Plan AusAID" AusAID, Australia's Agency for International Development, has activated "Plan AusAID" which sets in train emergency relief processes with AusAID as the lead body in coordinating Australia's relief activities in Papua New Guinea (PNG). The plan…

Pledges and contributions The Norwegian government is to provide an additional US$675,000 to the UNOCHA Mine Action Programme. Norway donated a similar sum earlier this year. The Austrian government has announced a donation of US$11,000 worth of medical supplies. From the frontline A…

Ref: DHAGVA - 97/0515 DISASTER SITUATION 1. Because of severe weather conditions resulting from EL Nino, major parts of Papua New Guinea have received little or no rain since February/March this year. This has resulted in a severe drought throughout the…

DATE=9/23/97 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-220283 TITLE=AFGHAN FIGHTING (S) BYLINE=MEREDITH BUEL DATELINE=ISLAMABAD CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: WITH ARTILLERY FIRE, TANKS AND A LARGE FORCE OF HEAVILY ARMED FIGHTERS -- ANTI-TALEBAN FORCES IN AFGHANISTAN HAVE LAUNCHED A MAJOR OFFENSIVE NORTH OF MAZAR-I-SHARIF. AS V-O-A CORRESPONDENT MEREDITH BUEL REPORTS…

DATE=9/23/97 TYPE=BACKGROUND REPORT NUMBER=5-37597 TITLE=AFGHAN REFUGEES BYLINE=MEREDITH BUEL DATELINE=ISLAMABAD CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: NEARLY ONE-THOUSAND AFGHAN REFUGEES HAVE DECIDED THIS WEEK TO RETURN HOME FROM PAKISTAN, UNDER A UNIQUE PROGRAM DEVELOPED BY THE UNITED NATIONS. AS V-O-A ISLAMABAD CORRESPONDENT MEREDITH BUEL REPORTS -- THE…