Reports

WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION - DILI OFFICE, EAST TIMOR Infectious Disease Surveillance and Epidemic Preparedness(16/04/2000-22/04/2000) Important points: Continued slight increase in the incidence of bloody diarrhoea. Measles continues, with the first reported case from Same. There have been no…

SITUATION: At least four people were reported killed when an earthquaketoday measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale hit Indonesia's Sulawesi island andother smaller islands. The earthquake triggered a tsunami, affecting isletsaround Banggai. Damage was reported in the Sulawesi coastal town of…

CHURCH WORLD SERVICE - EMERGENCY RESPONSE OFFICE Church World Service is the Humanitarian Agency of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. 35 Denominations & Communions Working Together to Meet Human Needs SITUATION: A rapidly worsening dought situation is…

Gravely concerned by reports that the parties in Afghanistan are preparing for a new offensive, the Security Council today strongly warned them not to pursue a military solution to the conflict, which could only aggravate the country's humanitarian situation. In…

REPRESENTATIVE OFFICES OF FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS REGULATED Dili, 4 May 2000 The National Consultative Council approved today a regulation on the establishment of representative offices of foreign governments to UNTAET which follows very closely all the provisions of the Vienna Convention on diplomatic…

Ref. OCHA/GVA - 2000/0088 OCHA Situation Report No. 2 Afghanistan - Drought 4 May 2000 Situation 1. Southern Afghanistan is suffering from the worst drought since 1971. Unsatisfactory rainfall in 1998 and 1999 followed by unusually dry weather with far below average precipitation in…

JAKARTA, May 4 (Reuters) - An earthquake measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale hit Indonesia's Sulawesi island and neighbouring islets on Thursday, triggering a tsunami and killing at least four people. The quake hit at 12:21 pm (0421 GMT) shook central…

00/05/04 04:21:17 UTC 0.90S 123.40E Depth: 33.0 km 7.3Ms MINAHASSA PENINSULA, SULAWESI 100 miles (160 km) SSE of Gorontalo, Sulawesi, Indonesia map The following is a release by the United States Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center: A major earthquake occurred IN…

Joint UN System Briefing on Drought Continuing with the efforts to coordinate information and action on drought facing Southwestern Pakistan and Southern Afghanistan, the UN system in Pakistan and the UN Humanitarian Agencies of Afghanistan organized a joint briefing on…

From UN / PAKISTAN 2000 - A weekly newsletter, published by the UN Information Centre (UNIC) on behalf of all Agencies of the United Nations System in Pakistan. Weekly Issue No. 15/2000 (3 May 2000) Commenting on the drought affecting most of…