Informes

DATE=11/5/97 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-222201 TITLE=INDONESIA / DROUGHT BYLINE=JENNY GRANT DATELINE=JAKARTA CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: THE EASTERN INDONESIAN PROVINCE OF EAST NUSA TENGGARA IS FACING RICE SHORTAGES FROM A FIVE-MONTH LONG DROUGHT. JENNY GRANT REPORTS FROM JAKARTA, THE DROUGHT IS CAUSING FAMINE, DISEASE AND SOCIAL UNREST IN OTHER…

(2:23pm AEDT) The Australian War Veterans' organisation, the Returned Services League has launched an appeal to assist the hundreds of thousands of drought victims in Papua New Guinea. R-S-L Deputy National President, Rusty Priest, says during the Second World War the…

Ref: DHAGVA - 97/0542 1. On 1 November 1997, a tropical low pressure storm in the South China Sea near Kalimantan escalated into Typhoon Linda. During the night of 2 November, the centre of Typhoon Linda hit the southern tip…

PNG DROUGHT UPDATE Increased AusAID funded flights have delivered more food aid to PNG's drought affected provinces. There are now 1 Hercules, 4 Caribou, 3 Black Hawk and 2 Chinooks involved in the latest aid deliveries to Central and Western Provinces. To…

Islamabad, 4 November 1997 (RFE/RL) - There are reports today of fresh fighting in Afghanistan between forces of warlords General Rashid Dostam and his former ally General Abdul Malik. The Pakistan-based Afghan Islamic Press reports that at least 11…

Media Contact: Beth Schaefer, News & Information Officer Phone: (301) 680-6355 Fax: (301) 680-6370 LAE, PAPUA NEW GUINEA--Humanitarian organizations, including the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA), are working together to relieve the most harmful affects of the worst drought in…

(7:53am AEDT) Australia is stepping up its emergency food airlift to Papua New Guinea. Mark Bowling reports more military aircraft have joined the relief mission, which is now Australia's largest joint services operation in two decades. As the suffering from Papua…

DATE=11/2/97 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-222037 TITLE=AFGHAN PRISONER (L) BYLINE=SARA HORNER DATELINE=ISLAMABAD CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: A SENIOR MEMBER OF THE OPPOSITION NORTHERN ALLIANCE IN AFGHANISTAN, GENERAL ABDUL RASHID DOSTAM, HAS OFFERED TO EXCHANGE PRISONERS OF WAR WITH THE TALEBAN. AS SARAH HORNER REPORTS FROM ISLAMABAD THERE WAS…

(9:39pm AEDT) Smog from forest fires have thickened over the Indonesian regions of Sumatra and Kalimantan although the fires are reported to be dying down. Indonesian officials said thick smog covered 10 provinces in Sumatra and Kalimantan, but was less severe…

(7:16am AEDT) At least 500 people have died from drought-related famine in the Indonesian province of Irian Jaya. The area, on the Indonesian-controlled western half of Papua New Guinea, is in the grip of the worst drought this century.…