Sri Lanka
GENEVA - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the leading financial services provider, Credit Suisse, today announced a new joint effort to build a sustainable future for 19,000 school children in Sri Lanka. Through WFP, the "Credit Suisse Food…
Sri Lanka
18-25 January 2007 KILINOCHCHI AND MULLAITIVU DISTRICTS Situation update The general situation in Kilinochchi town has been calm with the exception of short and sporadic shelling in the north of the Muhamalai FDL areas in the evenings over the week. GA Kilinochchi…
Sri Lanka
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY About the report: This second year report documents the Sri Lankan experience of post Tsunami recovery and reconstruction in 2006. It presents a comprehensive analysis within the larger context of economic, social and political developments of the country…
Sri Lanka
Intensifying hostilities between the Sri Lankan Army and the rebel Tamil Tigers (LTTE) have led to the displacement of up to 8,000 people in Vaharai, Batticaloa district, Eastern Sri Lanka. IOM, which has had an office in Batticaloa since the…
Sri Lanka
(New York: 19 January 2007): The United Nations is undertaking a number of initiatives to support the Government of Sri Lanka in response to recent flooding and landslides that have struck Hambantota, Ampara and Nuwara Eliya districts on the…
Sri Lanka
COLOMBO, 19 January 2007 - UNICEF handed over non-food relief items to the value of 7 million rupees to the Government Agent in Nuwara Eliya, at the request of the Ministry of Disaster Management and Human Rights which is…
Sri Lanka
29 Lorries and four bousers carrying food items, kerosene oil and other items crossed the OMANTHAI entry exit point north of VAVUNIYA to proceed towards tiger held KILINOCHCHI, MULLAITHIVU and VANNI yesterday (13) and today (14). The consignment included dhal,…
Sri Lanka
1. CONTEXT By December 2006, upheavals of violence and periods of intense confrontation at local level became a recurring reality. The Ceasefire Agreement (CFA) is under severe strain. As none of the signatories have formally renounced their…
Sri Lanka
A vessel carrying essential food items from India arrived in Point Pedro port yesterday. This is the first stage of the programme to solve the shortage of food and other essential items in the Jaffna peninsula. The shipment includes sugar,…
Sri Lanka
The local authorities in Vakarai in the east confirmed that there no food shortage in the area. The officials have refuted the continuous false reports that stated that there is a serious humanitarian crisis has developed in LTTE controlled…
