Informes

(New York: 7 March 2007): Local search and rescue efforts were ongoing this morning in affected areas of Indonesia's Sumatra island as the first United Nations inter-agency assessment team arrived in the zone affected by yesterday's 6.3 magnitude tremor. With…

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Water is an essential element for our survival. Unfortunately, while Pakistan is blessed with adequate surface and groundwater resources, rapid population growth, urbanization and unsustainable water consumption practices have placed immense stress on the quality as well as the…

Save the Children is responding to the needs of children affected by severe flooding in Jakarta, which has forced 340,000 people to flee their homes. Torrential rains in the Indonesian capital Jakarta and its surrounding areas have caused widespread flooding,…

More than 200,000 people are homeless and thousands at risk of life-threatening diarrhoea and water-borne diseases in Jakarta, following the city's worst floods in five years. CARE International, the world's third largest aid agency, is warning a serious public health…

Kabul_(dpa) _ Following the controversial withdrawal of British troops, the southern Afghan district of Musa Qala was at risk of falling back under the control of the radical Taliban movement, a government spokesman said Friday. The former governor of the…

Risk Assessment: - Over the whole year the security situation was worse than ever since the ousting of the Taliban in 2001. Within the reported period the number of Forceful Events maintained a very high level and, though they dropped…

By Tani Ruiz CAMARINES SUR PROVINCE, Philippines, 21 December 2006 - Bato South Central Elementary School, in the province of Camarines Sur, was destroyed by Typhoon Reming - also known as Durian - on 30 November. In the demolished classrooms,…

By: Pamela Davie, Canadian Red Cross Banda Aceh, Indonesia When two near simultaneous earthquakes measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale struck Aceh province on November 18, many communities were prepared in case of additional tremors or a resulting tsunami. Already traumatized by…

Mercy Corps improving local evacuation and emergency response plans; Coastal town of Padang Pariamanhigh-risk area for future natural disasters PORTLAND, Ore. - As the two-year anniversary of the December 26, 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami approaches, Mercy Corps is helping Indonesian communities…

Governments, aid agencies and humanitarian actors must spend twice as much on disaster preparedness activities that could save millions of lives, says Robert Tickner, CEO of Australian Red Cross. Almost two years on from the devastating Indian Ocean tsunamis that killed…