Reports

MSF capabilities in Baccau will increase substantially on Friday, October 8. Plans are to have a civilian hospital handed over to MSF for medical coordination. Currently the MSF staff is operating out of a former military hospital. MSF shall…

Violence intensified in East Timor following a "special consultation" or referendum on August 30, under the auspices of the United Nations, in which nearly 80 percent of voters rejected special autonomy within Indonesia, and thus supported East Timor's independence. Thousands…

AT A GLANCE More towns in East Timor found still abandoned Plans continue for airlift return to East Timor UNHCR sends letter protesting West Timor registration EAST TIMOR Aid workers travelled today, Wednesday, 45 kms west from Dili to Liquisa where they found thousands…

Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International would like to share with the committee some assessment of the dangers East Timor faces as it moves toward independence in accordance with the results of the 30 August 1999 referendum. These dangers…

KUPANG -- The United Nations World Food Programme announced today that it will begin distributing emergency food rations to 142,000 displaced people in West Timor under an agreement reached with the Indonesian Government. WFP will supply both rice and high-energy biscuits…

Cameron W. Barr Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor DENPASAR, INDONESIA The militia leader's personal style is more living large than freedom fighter - cowboy boots tipped with silver filigree, a tight white T-shirt marked with a subtle…

GA/SPD/159 The colonized people of Guam would vote on its status by 4 July 2000, a representative of that Territory’s Governor told the Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization) this afternoon, as the Committee continued consideration of…

54,000 people collect food for a month The biggest food distribution ever to take place in East Timor has been completed in Dili this afternoon. World Vision and other aid agencies have combined to deliver food packs to 54,000 people…

September 1999RBM/Complex Emergencies Network East Timor West Timor Basic indicators Total population (1998) 875,989 1,452,153 IMR (1997) 70 54 CDR (1996) 99 82 Iron deficiency anaemia (1992) 48.0 (pregnant women) 40.7 (under fives) 59.7 (pregnant women) 63.4 (under fives) Plasmodium species 60-80% P.falciparum, remainder P.vivax and very sporadic P.ovale Malaria cases detected (1998) 10,332 confirmed malaria cases…