Reports

By Enrique de Castro LEGAZPI, Philippines, March 1 (Reuters) - A deadly Philippine volcano erupted again on Wednesday after nearly a day of quiet, spitting out flaming boulders as big as houses in an awesome display of its power. Aside…

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan today briefed the Security Council on his recent trip to East Timor, stressing the need for patience in assessing reconstruction progress and urging it not to establish "arbitrary deadlines" for the UN to fulfill its…

Relations between East Timor and Indonesia were given new impetus Tuesday after the Indonesian delegation headed by President Abdurrahman Wahid signed a joint communique with the United Nations mission to permit passage of people and goods between East Timor…

DILI -- On the final day of his five day mission to East Timor, from 26 February to 1 March, the Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General on Internally Displaced Persons, Dr. Francis Deng, took the opportunity to share…

ISLAMABAD, 1 March (IRIN) - The Pakistani government and the United Nations are at an impasse over the plight of newly-arrived Afghan refugees. Since September, some 170,000 Afghans have arrived in Pakistan seeking refuge from drought, war or a combination…

Johannesburg, South Africa. March 1 2000 International aid workers have always risked their personal safety, but they are increasingly becoming targets of criminal bandits and cold-blooded terrorism. CATHERINE BERTINI reports Humanitarian workers in the fields of war and natural disasters live by…

After a series of powerful explosions on 28 February, Mayon volcano in the Philippines became even more vigorous on 29 February, producing explosions which were described as stronger than the 1993 eruption (that event had killed some 70-80 people).…

The Australian Red Cross and International Red Cross continue providing humanitarian assistance to all those affected by last year's events in East and West Timor. Australian Red Cross continues to run the logistics base in Darwin, with two Australian logistics…

Health: East Timor's first nation-wide immunisation campaign since the 30 August 1999 ballot, was launched on 1 March by UNICEF and its partner organisations. Although medical NGOs, supported by UNICEF, have inoculated 50,000 children against measles, the launch of this…

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) today launched the first major immunization campaign in East Timor since last August's referendum on independence. Twenty thousand infants are to be immunized against six childhood diseases. At a press briefing in Dili today,…