Informes

Period covered: July - November, 1999 Despite delays caused by a flood relief operation, most programmes moved ahead. The exceptions were the Myanmar refugee operation and Hill Tracts programmes, where funding shortages paralysed some aid efforts. Cyclone preparedness gained ground,…

Press Release SC/6799 - 20000203 Describes Improved Internal Security, But Says Poverty `Calamitous'; Asks for Quick Release of Resources The United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) was now operating throughout East Timor and mechanisms to consult…

MANILA, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Floods and landslides in the southern Philippines have killed 23 people and caused widespread crop damage, but the water has begun to recede, civil defence officials said on Thursday. Antonio Cloma of the Office for…

Ministry for Foreign Affairs - Press Release Unofficial translation The Government decided today to grant a total of SEK 69 million to the Swedish Afghanistan Committee for the period 2000-2001. The money will fund the Committee's activities designed to facilitate humanitarian…

This report includes: A) Kenya - drought B) Somalia C) Uganda D) Angola E) Indonesia - East Timor F) Afghanistan G) Colombia - war displaced. From Jean-Jacques Graisse, Assistant Executive Director. Available on the Internet on the WFP Home Page…

On the situation in East Timor New York, 3 February 2000 Mr. President, members of the Council, you have before you the report of the Secretary-General on the first three months of the Transitional Administration in East Timor. I trust…

ISLAMABAD (Feb. 2) XINHUA - Francesc Vendrell, newly appointed U.N. secretary-general's special envoy for Afghanistan, will arrive here on Thursday on his "initial listening tour" of the region to acquaint himself with the situation in Afghanistan. Vendrell, during his first…

Heavy rains and floods in Mindanao in the south in late January, killed at least 11 people and displaced a further 20 000. There is possibility that casualties and the estimate of damage will increase. Although heavy crop damage…

Oekussi: Following the first official hand over ceremony yesterday from Interfet to the UNTAET Peacekeeping Force (PKF) for the eastern sector of the territory, the Ambeno enclave will be the second sector to be handed over from Interfet to…

By Joanne Collins BAUCAU, East Timor (Reuters) - A U.N. peacekeeping operation in wrecked East Timor formally got underway on Tuesday as international troops swapped hats in a symbolic ceremony. Some 210 Thai, Korean and Filipino troops exchanged military caps for…