Informes

By Anis Ahmed DHAKA, Oct 3 (Reuters) - About 150 Bangladeshi fishermen have failed to return to shore following a storm in the Bay of Bengal as the country reels from widespread flooding, officials said on Tuesday. The floods have killed…

Geneva/Delhi, 3 October 2000 The International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent together with the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society have intensified relief operations across five districts in western Bangladesh where over 2.5 million people have been affected by…

Written by Stephanie Kriner, Staff Writer, DisasterRelief.org, with news reports As receding waters revealed hundreds of bloated corpses in some parts of flood-weary Asia, other areas faced more rain this week. The continual foul weather has dampened the spirits of…

SAVE THE CHILDREN (UK) EMERGENCY UNIT STATEMENT Heavy rains in India and Bangladesh have been wreaking havoc over the past two weeks. In India the rains are concentrated in West Bengal State and are particularly severe in the eastern district of…

Ref: OCHA/GVA - 2000/0188 OCHA Situation Report No. 3 Bangladesh - Floods 3 October 2000 The present report summarizes information provided by the UN Resident Coordinator's Office in Dhaka and by WFP. Situation and Damage 1. Rushing floodwaters continued to flow across the border…

Baptist World Aid (BWAid), the relief and development arm of the Baptist World Alliance, has given $10,000 to the Bangladesh Baptist Fellowship (BBF) for flood relief work. The BBF has a $40,000 project to meet the urgent needs of 1000…

Ref: OCHA/GVA - 2000/0178 OCHA Situation Report No. 2 Bangladesh - Floods 29 September 2000 The present report summarises information from the UN Resident Coordinator's Office in Dhaka. Situation 1. Bangladesh has suffered greatly from this year's monsoon rainfall. Incessant rainfall in the upper…

ACT issued an Appeal for West Bengal for over US $ 1 million Aloysius Milon Khan, Bangladesh, and Rainer Lang, Geneva "We are going to face a long term devastation", a Bangladesh official in the district of Meherpur said according to media…

Period covered: 22 - 28 September 2000On 22 September, in a further development of the flood disaster in Bangladesh, the north western districts of Chuadanga, Meherpur and Jhenidah were hit by flood waters rushing from West…

By Nizam Ahmed DHAKA, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Floods in Bangladesh have killed more than 50 people, left nearly 150 missing, made over one million homeless and badly disrupted communications, officials said on Friday. More than 80,000 hectares (200,000 acres) of…