Informes

OCHA-GENEVA-99/0190 Paraguay - Drought OCHA Geneva - Situation Report No.1 22 October 1999 Emergency in the Department of Concepción 1. According to the Office of the United Nations Resident Coordinator in Paraguay, Paraguay is being affected by drought growing more and more severe…

Press Release 1821 Cuetzalan, Puebla, October 22, 1999. President Zedillo supervised relief and reconstruction in Puebla for the tenth time since the rains President Zedillo visited communities in the northern area of Puebla which were severely affected by the rains. He supervised…

Please note that, due to the General Assembly and the International Conference, there will be no Weekly News published over the next two weeks - the next edition will be issued on 11 November. Hurricane Irene The International Federation is appealing for…

Food For Work Program Employs Over 18,000 People Despite Significant Achievements Reconstruction Is A Long-Term Effort Mercy Corps' long-term rebuilding efforts in Honduras have been concentrated in remote villages in Central Honduras where the agency has often been the first,…

Salvationists from the México Command are helping victims of severe flooding which has claimed 400 lives and left more than a quarter of a million people homeless. The emergency canteen has taken food, clothing and water to Tulansingo, Hidalgo,…

Washington October 21, 1999 -- The latest Hurricane Jose forecast from the National Hurricane Center (NHC) shows the storm tracking farther away from the US Virgin Islands (USVI) and Puerto Rico (PR) this morning. Once it passes the islands, NHC…

Hurricane Jose, with maximum sustained winds of 100mph(160km/hr) passed over the northern Leeward Islands between Wednesday, October 20, and early this morning Thursday, October 21, 1999. The core of the storm passed directly over the island Antigua, where preliminary damage…

This report covers the Emergency (No. 33/98) and Transitional (02/99) Appeals related to the Hurricane Mitch operation. It is a consolidated narrative and interim financial report for the period between 30 October 1998 to 30 June…

The Disaster Jose, classified as a category 2 hurricane with winds of 160 kilometres per hour, has been moving through the northern Leeward Islands at about 17 kilometres per hour. Satellite reports from yesterday afternoon predicted that most of the…

El Instituto Geofísico se encuentra monitoreando el volcán Tungurahua. A continuación se presenta un resumen del estado actual del volcán: SISMICIDAD La actividad tremórica contin=FAa saturando las estaciones sísmicas ubicadas cerca al cráter del volcán lo que hace difícil reconocer eventos sísmicos…