Informes

The UK Government has dispatched a relief flight to Sri Lanka carrying sufficient temporary shelter for more than 5,000 families made homeless in the earthquake and subsequent tidal waves that struck large swathes of the Indian Ocean seaboard yesterday. Five…

Paris (dpa) - One hundred French rescue workers were set to leave France for Sri Lanka on Monday to aid victims of the quake-provoked tidal waves that have killed tens of thousands in the region, French civil security officials…

KATHMANDU, Dec 28, 2004 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The Nepali government has decided to provide 100,000 US dollars to Sri Lanka after the tsunamis brought on by underwater earthquake off Indonesia devastated Sri Lanka and several other countries. The decision…

GALLE, Sri Lanka, Dec 28, 2004 (Xinhua via Comtex) -- Shouting names of the missing relatives, looking around to identify the loved ones and moving bodies for burials -- all are the scene in a Sri Lankan coastal town…

Norway is in touch with the UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and Norwegian relief organisations regarding the relief work following the tsunami in South East Asia. So far only Sri Lanka has requested international assistance. "I…

PRAGUE (CTK) - The Czech Republic will send ten million crowns in humanitarian aid to the areas damaged by an earthquake and subsequent tsunamis in southeast Asia, the government decided today. Head of the Prime Minister's Office Miroslav Kostelka told reporters…

The government has launched an international appeal requesting immediate and medium term assistance to provide relief to victims of national disaster which killed more than 4,000 and rendered million homeless. Requests have been initially made to friendly countries, UN and…

Over 3,000 persons killed, Digamadulla worst affected area As an estimated 2,500 persons were killed yesterday morning by the massive tidal waves that devastated the coastal areas, President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga declared a state of National Disaster and called for international…

Australian Red Cross has launched an emergency appeal, in support of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies initial appeal for approximately A$8.5 million. The appeal aims to provide assistance to some 500,000 people after the…

Face à l'ampleur de la catastrophe, la Croix-Rouge Française a déclenché son dispositif d'urgence, à savoir : ce soir, 27 décembre, 4 délégués embarquent avec Monsieur Michel Barnier et resteront en Thaïlande afin d'apporter leur concours à l'organisation d'un éventuel…