Informes

(Excerpt) ICRC NEWS 21 ** SHORT MENU. AFGHANISTAN / MAINTAINING A VITAL PRESENCE: The renewed fighting in several parts of northern and eastern Afghanistan over the last ten days or so has led to a sharp rise in humanitarian needs. ** STORIES…

Geneva, June 4, 1997 Dear Friends, On the following pages please find the report from the ACT Team visit to North Korea. The team left North Korea only yesterday and we are happy to share their report with you…

ROME -- A United Nations mission to North Korea reported today that the countrys food crisis is worsening rapidly and the last available government rations will run out by 20 June. The Food and Agriculture Organization/World Food Programme joint Crop and…

S P E C I A L A L E R T NO. 275 1. OVERVIEW Devastating floods in both 1995 and 1996 dealt a serious blow to the country's agriculture further constraining its ability to feed its population.…

New York, June 3, 1997 -- Amid widespread destruction but limited loss of life, church aid came quickly to areas of Bangladesh hit by a cyclone the third week in May. A local agency, the Christian Commission for Development in…

By Tim Johnston PUL-I-KHUMRI, Afghanistan (Reuter) - Afghanistan's fundamentalist Islamic Taleban militia recaptured two strategic towns north of the capital Kabul in a major offensive on Tuesday, Taleban officials and a news service reported. A senior Taleban official earlier said the…

New York, June 3, 1997 -- Famine relief efforts for North Korea are making slow progress. Yet the apparent scale of the tragedy unfolding there means that much, much more food aid is needed than is being offered.In a pioneering…

Humanitarian Assistance for Afghanistan WEEKLY UPDATE Issue 218 Evacuation of Mazar-i-Sharif On 29 May, the United Nations evacuated 65 international aid workers, journalists and foreign consul staff by road from Mazar to Termez, Uzbekistan. Of these, 58 then flew on UN…

Sue Lautze Feinstein International Famine Center School of Nutrition Science and Policy Tufts University June 1997 Introduction This issues paper is intended to raise awareness and encourage debate about the current crisis in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). Given…

The greatest need of those affected by Cyclone Bravo One is for assistance with the reconstruction of their homes . The BDRCS has now presented a detailed budget for its reconstruction programme that will provide support for rebuilding cyclone…