Informes

The Medair emergency assessment team arrived in Sri Lanka today to begin a rapid assessment mission around Amparai on the east coast, 250km from the capital Colombo. Initial reports indicate huge needs amongst 177,000 displaced people, who have fled…

SG/SM/9660 The Secretary-General: Let me thank you for coming. This is a difficult period for all of us. I returned to New York yesterday, to join in this effort, to lead the UN effort on the tsunami disaster.…

HIGHLIGHTS - UN Missions to the Galle in the South and Kilinochchi in the North to assess the situation. - President Chandrika Kumaratunga-Bandaranaike called two meetings of all political parties to enforce a national united approach to manage…

Colombo, Sri Lanka. 29th December 2004 Merlin has sent a team of medical experts to Sri Lanka following the tsunami disaster which has killed at least 60,000 people across Asia. After an initial health needs assessment, the team will…

World Vision Sri Lanka has begun assisting in tsunami relief efforts in the southern-most coastal areas of Sri Lanka, including Galle, Matara and Hambantota. As well as clean-up efforts, and taking care of the living, there is the gruesome task…

UN/ISDR 2004/17 Tsunami early warning systems could have saved thousands of lives following the devastating tsunamis that struck Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka, India and neighbouring countries and islands on 26 December, according to UN sources. Latest reports put the death toll…

On day three of the massive United Nations relief effort after the devastating Asian tsunami, senior officials today issued an immediate call for $130 million ahead of a much vaster appeal next week, stressed that coordination was now vital to save…

COLOMBO, Dec 29, 2004 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- An Airbus 747 belonging to China southern cargo landed at Sri Lankan Bandaranaike international airport on Wednesday afternoon, bring the relief goods for people living in Tsunami-hit areas. Chinese Ambassador in Sri…

COLOMBO, Dec 29, 2004 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The National Relief Operations Unit (NROU) was established Wednesday here to aid relief activities undertaken by government and non-governmental groups in the tsunami-stricken Sri Lanka. President Chandrika Kumaratunga announced the establishment of the…

NICOSIA, Dec 29, 2004 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- A three-member aid mission of the Doctors of the World in Cyprus left for tsunami-hit Sri Lanka Wednesday morning as a second mission is preparing to leave by the end of…