Rapports

An American food conglomerate, Cargill, has reached agreement with North Koream to ship an undisclosed amount of American wheat to the famine-stricken country. The company says the agreement follows three months of negotiations, but declined to give details except to…

Wednesday, 9 April 1997: A mass polio immunization campaign currently taking place in Afghanistan will continue until tomorrow although fighting has resumed in the north west. UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO) had secured the agreement of the Taliban…

Background: In late July of 1996 the country was affected by floods for the second year in succession, though the severity was not comparable to the devastation caused by floods in 1995, when 5.2 million people's lives were affected…

Humanitarian Assistance for Afghanistan Pledges and contributions The Australian Government has announced its intention to provide US$2.35 million for food aid for Afghanistan. A further US$1.17 million will be set aside for projects in the areas of demining, health, water supply…

TOKYO (Reuter) - International relief efforts for North Korea gathered pace Tuesday as fears about its military intentions gave way to urgent action to avert the "hell" of a severe famine. Underscoring the urgency, North Korea told aid agencies in Pyongyang…

A massive polio erradication drive is successfully underway in Afganistan, but a truce declared by warring factions to aid the effort has been broken. The World Health Organisation says at least 100-thousand children have already received the oral vaccine in…

Ottawa -- The Honourable Don Boudria, Minister for International Cooperation and Minister responsible for La Francophonie, today announced that the Canadian Foodgrains Bank, in cooperation with the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), will provide food aid to victims of flooding…

DHA/97/10 LES NATIONS UNIES LANCENT UN NOUVEL APPEL CONSOLIDE INTER-AGENCES POUR LA REPUBLIQUE POPULAIRE DEMOCRATIQUE DE COREE (RPDC) Genève -- (Département des affaires humanitaires) -- M. Yasushi Akashi, Secrétaire Général adjoint pour les Affaires Humanitaires, lance un appel pour US$ 126.2 millions…

Taliban officials in the Afghan capital, Kabul, has accused Russia of fanning regional tension. A foreign ministry statement released in Kabul accused Moscow of opposing positive developments and growth of central Asian countries. The statement said that strict islamic laws imposed by…

DHA/97/10 Geneva -- (Department of Humanitarian Affairs) - Mr. Yasushi Akashi, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, is calling for US$ 126.2 million to meet urgent humanitarian needs in the DPRK. The United Nations Consolidated Inter-Agency Appeal for the Democratic People's Republic of…