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Northwest Medical Teams volunteers and local partners are hard at work bringing hope to people in countries affected by the tsunami disaster. Volunteer physicians, nurses and paramedics are treating people in Sri Lanka's eastern coastal region where, according to the U.S.…

Situation The following is a summary of the scale of the disaster in Sri Lanka. - Total deaths: 30,196 - Total displaced persons: 834,849 - Total injured: 15,683 - Total missing: 3,846 - Total completely damaged houses: 88,022 - Total number camps: 789 The government…

Hilary Benn, Secretary of State for International Development, has today announced that Sri Lanka will be added to the list of countries eligible for the new multilateral debt relief initiative announced by the Chancellor in September 2004. Under this initiative…

By Katherine Baldwin AMPARA, Sri Lanka, Jan 4 (Reuters) - Heavy rain again lashed parts of eastern Sri Lanka on Tuesday, flooding camps housing hundreds of thousands of people made homeless by the Indian Ocean tsunami. Just as an international aid…

COLOMBO, Jan 4, 2005 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- An Boeing 747 carrying relief goods from China for Sri Lankan tsunami-hit areas landed at the Bandaranaike International Airport here early Tuesday morning. The relief goods worth 15 million yuan (around 1.83 million…

Galle (dpa) - The first U.S. soldiers to participate in relief efforts in tsunami-devastated Sri Lanka have arrived in the country, the U.S. embassy in Colombo said Tuesday. An embassy spokesman said the troops arrived in the capital Colombo, but…

To critics who say that there was too little relief effort in the early phase of last week's devastating Asian tsunami, United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator Jan Egeland had three words today: "I respectfully disagree." But he maintained his assertion…

Rejecting myths arising out of major historical plagues, relief workers coping with large numbers of people killed by natural disasters such as last week's earthquake and tsunami in South Asia should make every effort to respect the traditions of…

Australian NGOs are providing emergency assistance to the many communities in Sri Lanka, the Maldives, India, Bangladesh, Burma, Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia that were devastated by the massive earthquake on 26 December 2004. Australian aid agencies are supporting their local partners…

This is a daily brief which will be updated every 24 hours Oxfam International consists of 12 organisations around the world of which Oxfam Community Aid Abroad is one. The Oxfams work together internationally in emergencies to coordinate a response…