Informes

Following the earthquake on Sunday June 4 in Sumatra, that measured 7.9 on the Richter Scale, MSF is now present in the field conducting a needs assessment. An MSF team consisting of two expats - one doctor and water…

As DPR Korea enters its sixth year of serious food shortages, there are glimmers of hope that a relaxation of sanctions and the peace talks will reduce the country's isolation and, hence, its future susceptibility to food emergencies. Notwithstanding the…

World Health Organization, Dili Office, East Timor, in collaboration with the Infectious Disease Surveillance and Epidemic Preparedness Unit of the Interim Health Authority, UNTAET (21/05/2000-27/05/2000) Important points: An increase in reports of both watery diarrhoea and bloody diarrhoea from urban Dili. Data…

Cynthia Long, Managing Editor, DisasterRelief.org -- with news and wire reports Hundreds, possibly thousands, of people are thought to be trapped under mountains of rubble after Sunday's powerful earthquake rocked Indonesia's Sumatra Island. As aftershocks continue to rattle the region,…

The three provinces of Balkh, Juzjan and Faryab are situated in north and north-western Afghanistan. The weather of these provinces is almost alike, the winters are cold and summers are hot. The temperature during the summer usually reaches 43-degree…

Taipei (dpa) - Taiwan sent a rescue team to Indonesia's earthquakeke area on Wednesday to help search for survivors. The 13-member team is made up of a surgeon, an architect and 1111 fire fighters who received earthquake rescue training at…

by Shelby French, Emergency Assessment Team Proposal Writer On August 31, 1999 a referendum for independence in East Timor sparked a wave of violence that lead to the displacement of approximately 650,000 people and the destruction of 60 percent of all…

HEALTH GRANT SIGNED Dili, 7 June 2000 The World Bank administered Trust Fund for East Timor and UNTAET today signed a US$12,7 million grant for the health sector. This grant, a first phase in rehabilitating the health sector in East Timor,…

By Beawiharta BENGKULU, Indonesia (Reuters) - Indonesian rescuers headed for remote parts of Sumatra island Wednesday in search of more victims from a powerful earthquake that has killed at least 117 people and injured nearly 700 others. Hospital officials in Bengkulu…

Tokyo (dpa) - A Japanese medical team left Tokyo on Wednesday foror Indonesia to aid victims of Sunday's earthquake in Bengkulu Province, southern Sumatra. The 16-member team, including three doctors and six nurses, is leded by Kenji Taki of Saga…