Reports

The Australian Government has committed $13 million for shelter, repatriation, basic education and health, and malaria control and tuberculosis programs. These latest commitments are part of Australia's overall program of $37 million in humanitarian assistance to East Timor in 1999…

Pointing to a faster pace of reconciliation in East Timor, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today expressed the hope that an improved atmosphere would very soon allow the refugees still in West Timor camps to return home in peace and safety. Speaking…

Internally Displaced Persons Across the Frontlines The first phase of the UN crosslines assis-tance for Afghans from Shomali who were displaced into the Panjshir valley has been successfully concluded. After positive negotiations with both parties to the conflict, the UN relief operation…

The head of the United Nations administration in East Timor held a series of top-level meetings today in Jakarta to discuss the territory's future relations with Indonesia, a UN spokesman said today. Sergio Vieira de Mello, who heads the UN…

General: With the number of inaccessible villages growing as a result of deteriorating road conditions, coupled with the arrival of large tonnages of shelter materials tomorrow and extending over the next few months that will further tax the road…

Manila (dpa) - Philippine Defence Secretary Orlando Mercado said Monday the government's disaster preparedness programme helped minimize casualties in a powerful earthquake that rocked northern provinces over the weekend and left five people dead. Mercado said the government's call for regular…

Location: East Timor Incident Date: 6 September 1999 Hazard Type: Civil Unrest Summary: The result of the United Nations sponsored popular consultation on a special autonomy for East Timor within the Republic of Indonesia, held on 30 August, was…

Islamabad (Office of the United Nations Co-ordinator for Afghanistan), 13 December 1999-- At the press briefing today at the Office of the UN Co-ordinator for Afghanistan, spokesperson Stephanie Bunker announced that the first phase of crosslines humanitarian operation from Kabul…

December update to report In late November, INTERFET and the Indonesian military signed an agreement to expedite the return of those East Timorese who wished to return home from West Timorese camps. Despite this agreement, the situation has not changed…

Ref. OCHA/GVA - 99/0253 Date: 13 December 1999 Philippines - Earthquake OCHA Situation Report No. 2 13 December 1999 Situation 1. A strong earthquake hit Luzon, the largest island of the Philippines, on Sunday, 12 December 1999, at 02:03 hrs local time (Saturday,…