Informes

The combined effects of the Asian financial crisis and a prolonged drought may push close to half of Indonesia's 203 million people below the poverty line by the end of 1998, reports a Special Alert issued by FAO's Global…

At least nine people were killed when they were swept away after a landslide near the town of Kediri in the Indonesian province of East Java, a local newspaper reported on Friday. The Republika newspaper reported that torrential rains on…

U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUREAU FOR HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE (BHR) OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA) Background: The 1997-1998 El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) event triggered drought, forest fires and related food shortages and health problems throughout Indonesia. The U.S. Agency…

Villagers living on the slopes of Mount Merapi were keeping a wary eye on Indonesia's most active volcano on Tuesday after it spread fine choking dust over the area, causing breathing problems and damaging crops. Residents who had fled an…

More than 6,000 people had fled villages on the slopes of Indonesia's Mount Merapi volcano in Central Java but the level of alert had not been increased, vulcanologists said on Monday. Ratdomopurbo, a senior vulcanologist with the directorate of vulcanology…

appeal no. 18/97 situation report no. 4 period covered: 1 May to 1 July 1998 The haze/smog that choked much of Southeast Asia cleared with the belated arrival of the 1997 monsoon, but widespread drought and ongoing fires in parts of…

Ref. OCHA/GVA - 98/0241 SITUATION 1. Indonesia's most active volcano, Mount Merapi, erupted early Saturday, 11 July 1998, spewing a heat and gas cloud over an area of seven kilometres, news agencies reported. 2. Mount Merapi is one of the 127 active volcanoes…

April Giri Haninuna, 32, clutches her three months old son, Aap, closer to her bosom as she softly says that her child has been having fever for a week. Her other two children, a boy, Sam, 8, and a…

This report includes: A) Guinea-Bissau B) Sudan C) East and Central Africa: Uganda and Democratic Republic of Congo D) Indonesia E) Afghanistan F) Resourcing update. From Manuel Aranda da Silva, Chief, Technical Support Service. Available on the Internet on the WFP…

Indonesia's economy is rapidly deteriorating, marked by the soaring number of poor, estimated at 40 million, who now face severe food shortages. "The current economic crisis hassignificantly increased the number of the poor," Chief of the Central Bureau of Statistics…