Reports

Ref. OCHA/GVA - 2000/0101 OCHA Situation Report No. 4 Indonesia - Floods 24 May 2000 1. Management of the initial emergency response to the floods which have engulfed some estimated 100 square kms of broad and flat delta plain along the Benanain…

As the United Nations and other relief organizations continued to evacuate people from flood-affected areas in West Timor, more victims lost their lives in the past 24 hours, the UN Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) reported today from Dili. The…

JAKARTA, INDONESIA With new flooding in West Timor affecting 100,000 of the internally displaced people (IDPs), the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) is carrying out a two-month emergency relief program for thousands of people who are resettling their families,…

AS OF 24 MAY 2000, 1800 HOURS SITUATION The helicopter airlift of supplies to Malaka Barat sub-district continued throughout the day. Over 110 MT of food and relief supplies in over 120 sorties have been airlifted since relief efforts began last…

Executive Summary The objective of the review is primarily to assess the effectiveness and impact of the humanitarian response in East Timor since September 1999 to the present, while giving a general overview of the current situation,…

The United Nations System in Pakistan, in cooperation with the Department for International Development (DFID) of the United Kingdom, has just fielded an assessment team to assess the effects of the drought in Balochistan and Sindh provinces with respect to…

Floods: Over the past few days, UN agencies and NGOs in East Timor have continued to assist their colleagues in West Timor with on going relief efforts in the most affected areas of Malaka Tengah and Malaka Barat. The…

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. Quoted text from this briefing note may be attributed to the UNHCR spokesperson named below Kris Janowski 1. Sudan/Eritrea UNHCR staff…

The Drought While most media attention has been focused on the drought in southern Afghanistan, as earlier noted, other parts of Afghanistan are beginning to feel the effects of the drought as well. In western Afghanistan, the drought situation is…

From IOM PRESS BRIEFING NOTES by Niurka Piñeiro, IOM Spokesperson Since the IOM/UNHCR operation began on 9 April, IOM has helped 18,318 Afghan refugees to return to Afghanistan. On Monday May 22, IOM provided secondary transport to a total of…