Reports

OVERVIEW Further to GIEWS Special Alert No. 265 of February 1996, an on-the-spot assessment of the 1996 Yala crop and the overall food supply situation has just been completed by FAO/GIEWS. The assessment is based on field visits to the…

Ref: DHAGVA - 96/0244 1. The overall flood situation in the country has slightly improved in the upper catchment areas whereas it has significantly aggravated in the downstream. Brahmaputra basin: as the rainfall in this basin has considerably decreased during the…

CHURCH WORLD SERVICE EMERGENCY RESPONSE This alert does not guarantee that an appeal will follow. To give your input, see contact at end of bulletin. Bangladesh has again suffered from heavy rainfall. Eight northern regions have been inundated and approximately one million…

Ref: DHAGVA - 96/0208 SITUATION 1. THE UN/DHA RESIDENT COORDINATOR IN DHAKA INFORMS THAT THE FLOOD SITUATION DUE TO SEASONAL MONSOON RAINS IN BANGLADESH IS WORSENING RAPIDLY AND MAY TAKE A SERIOUS TURN IF THE PRESENT LEVEL OF INCREASE OF WATER…

WASHINGTON (Reuter) - Secretary of State Warren Christopher, preparing for an Asia trip, has voiced impatience with North Korea's failure to join four-party security talks and said there are limits to what the international community will do to raw…

Bangladesh is experiencing its second round of flooding during the month of July. Earlierthis month, floods created hardships for residents in the Northwest and Northeast. Twojoint Bangladesh Red Crescent Society/Federation Delegation assessment teams deemed atthat time no relief action was…

WINNIPEG, Man. -- North Koreans suffering from hunger in that country will soon receive food from Mennonite Central Committee (MCC). The agency will contribute $120,000 Cdn./$86,500 U.S. toward a purchase of 1,000 metric tons of rice, valued at $600,000 Cdn./$473,000 U.S.…

This report includes: A) Burundi, Rwanda, Zaire and Tanzania B) Sudan C) Liberia and Sierra Leone D) Angola E) Democratic People's Republic of Korea From B. Szynalski, Director, Operational Policy and Support Division. For information regarding resources, donors are requested to…

SEOUL (Reuter) - Elderly couples in North Korea are committing suicide and children are being abandoned in the streets to die because of famine, a North Korean defector said Tuesday. ''There are cases where those (elderly) parents hang or drown…

TOKYO (Reuter) - North Korea has asked the United States to provide more than 100,000 tons of rice and loosen its economic sanctions in a move that could lead to Pyongyang joining proposed four-nation peace talks, a Japanese newspaper…