Informes

Bolivia / Peru / Ecuador Flooding continues in Ecuador, and in Peru flooding has spread from the north southwards and has even affected the capital Lima, caused by a major river bursting its banks. Oxfam responded immediately by distributing water…

Some 500 Ecuador Red Cross volunteers continue distributing food, clothes and kitchen utensils to people left destitute by the devastating mud slides and floods that destroyed thousands of homes and more than 105,000 hectares of crops in late February.…

Latin American farmers and governments continue to battle with extreme weather linked to the El Niño phenomenon, according to a Special Report issued in February by FAO's Global and Early Warning System on Food and Agriculture…

Ref: OCHA/GVA - 98/0167 SITUATION 1. Heavy rains, caused by the El Niño phenomenon, continue to bring floods and landslides to the country, claiming lives and destroying houses, roads, bridges and farmland. According to the latest estimates approximately 600 kilometres of…

U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUREAU FOR HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE (BHR) OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA) Background: Over the last two months, above normal rainfall caused by the 1997-98 El Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO), has precipitated a number of disasters in…

A large increase in cholera cases has been reported in Peru since the end of 1997. In the first four weeks of 1998 a total of 2 863 cases with 16 deaths had been reported compared with only…

Ref: DHAGVA - 98/0163 Situation 1. In consultation with the national authorities, the United Nations Resident Coordinator reports that the effects of El Niño have worsened over the first two weeks of February owing to heavy precipitation and frequent heavy seas…

Emergency Project Will Provide Medicine and Other Urgently Needed Material February 23, 1998 -- Today, CARE announced an emergency project to help counteract the devastating effects of El Niño on certain highland communities in Bolivia. Torrential rains have battered communities living along…

Central America: The effects of El Niño thus far in Central America have been confined mainly to lower than normal rainfall. In Costa Rica, dry weather combined with unusually high temperatures are the norm over most of the country. Water rationing…

Ref: OCHA-GVA/98/0161 SITUATION 1. During the past days heavy rains have intensified the incidence of flooding and landslides in the northern, central and southern parts of Peru. Furthermore, several roads and bridges have been seriously destroyed, leaving large cities such as…