Informes

With the United Nations health agency warning that up to 5 million people in Southeast Asia are without basic services after Sunday's devastating tsunami, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today chaired a top level emergency meeting to oversee what may turn…

No.: 183/04 This morning the UN launched an initial appeal to the international community for USD 130 million for the emergency relief efforts in South East Asia. Minister of International Development Hilde F. Johnson has therefore decided to allocate an…

STATEMENT FROM DR LEE JONG-WOOK, DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION The earthquake and subsequent tsunamis originating in Asia have killed and injured tens of thousands of people and left millions homeless in coastal areas of Asia. This serious natural disaster…

07.00 hrs 30 December 2004 KEY ISSUES - Hilary Benn, Secretary of State yesterday announced an initial £15 million for immediate humanitarian response in the region. - The US is dispatching a Marine expeditionary unit, the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln, and the…

Dhaka (dpa) - Bangladesh sent two helicopters and a plane-load of medicine, safe water and oral rehydration saline packets to Colombo Thursday for the survivors of Sunday's quake in Sri Lanka and the Maldives, officials said. Bangladesh is also dispatching…

BEIJING, Dec 30, 2004 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The Red Cross Society of China has decided to offer another emergent donation totaled 340,000d US dollars for the six severely tsunami-hit countries including Sri Lanka, Indonesia, India, Thailand, Myanmar and…

Beyond the enormous effort to raise donations in cash and kind, one of the major challenges confronting the massive United Nations operation to bring relief to the survivors of the devastating Asian tsunami is to ensure that the aid…

From floating mines - the dislodged detritus of long running civil war - to the psychological after-shocks of Asia's devastating tsunami, the massive United Nations relief operation is addressing the mini-crises that may slip below the radar of public…

In light of the new dire disaster figures, the Danish Government has decided to increase its contribution to assistance to the many flood victims to 95 mio. DKR, app. 18 mio. USD. The Danish Emergency Management Agency has been asked…

The Chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission was deeply shocked by the natural calamities that recently devastated south-east Asia, as well as part of the Indian Ocean coast of Africa, which resulted in immense losses of life and…