Informes

GENEVA/NAIROBI, 27 March - Mr Klaus Töpfer, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), is in Geneva today to inform the United Nations Secretary-General, Mr. Kofi Annan, and the heads of all the United Nations agencies on…

The European Union is to provide more than one-and-a-half million dollars in aid to help control the many forest fires burning across Southeast Asia. The program -- which is to target Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand -- was…

Forest fires are spreading in Indonesia's East Kalimantan province as new equipment is rushed to some 300 people battling fires in a national park. Fires previously confined to stretches of the Kutai national park near the area's main road havr…

ICRC News 98/12 The relief survey and distributions launched in November 1997 by the Indonesian Red Cross Society and the ICRC in the highlands of Irian Jaya have overcome enormous logistical hurdles and now begun to show results. From November…

Fine-tuned assistance to cope with the impact of drought and famine Following the ICRC's Budget Extension Appeal of 26 January to fund relief activities and medical assistance for Irian Jaya's drought-stricken population until the next harvest, ICRC/PMI ( Indonesian Red Cross…

Pollution from wildfires raging in a drought-stricken region of Indonesia has been blamed for an outbreak of pneumonia, which has already killed two people. The two deaths occured in East Kalimantan province. Indonesia's chief health officer, J.S.H. Pasaribu, says pollution in some…

Fires are burning along the eastern coast of Borneo island, threatening villages and spreading thick smoke across the area. Troops have been deployed along the road linking the cities of Samarinda and Balikpapan in Indonesia's East Kalimantan province, to prevent the…

JAKARTA, March 17 (Reuters) - New Indonesian Environment Minister Juwono Sudarsono wants to make battling recurring forest and bush fires top priority, the Jakarta Post daily reported on Tuesday. Speaking to reporters on Monday Sudarsono, a professor of international relations, said…

Since August 1997 Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies have set up 29 different operations in Latin and North America, Africa and Asia to assist more than three million people affected by the El Nino weather phenomenon. In more…

Press Release SG/SM/6479 The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary- General Kofi Annan: The Secretary-General was briefed today by the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Klaus Topfer, about the serious situation arising from the…