Rapports

IHA/628* NEW YORK, 7 April (Department for Humanitarian Affairs) - The Under- Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Yasushi Akashi, is calling for $126.2 million to meet urgent humanitarian needs in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. The United Nations Consolidated Inter-Agency Appeal…

(Excerpt) This report is issured weekly by the United Nations World Food Programme This report includes: A) Burundi, Rwanda, Zaire and Tanzania B) Uganda C) Ethiopia D) Somalia E) Democratic People's Republic of Korea F) Albania From P. Ares, Chief, Programming Service. Available…

Half a bowl of rice. That's the rationed daily amount of food for North Koreans. Two years of devastating floods and years of declining agricultural yields have created widespread food shortages. MCC is joining with other groups to send…

National Press Club, Washington, D.C. 9 a.m., 1997 The time to act is now to help feed 24 million North Korean people facing famine and life-threatening epidemic disease. Hunger tightens its grip on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea…

SEOUL, South Korea (Reuter) - Red Cross officials on Wednesday warned of imminent famine in North Korea, saying kitchens were bare except for grass and tree bark, children were weak and cattle were being slaughtered to save feed grain. Yasuo…

Humanitarian Assistance for Afghanistan Pledges and contributions Canada pledges US$ 12.3 million. The Canadian International Development Agency is to contribute US$ 12.3 million to international relief efforts in Afghanistan. Around US$ 1 million of this will go to UNOCHA and some…

WASHINGTON (Reuter) - The U.N. World Food Program planned to double its appeal for aid to North Korea after recent inspections found the potential for starvation "quite rapidly on a massive scale," one program official said Tuesday, "As a result…

(extract) The Oxfam Emergencies Bulletin aims to give an overview of Oxfams current emergency work world-wide, for use in communications work. It appears monthly. For further information, contact Maurice Herson in the Emergencies Department. [ Telephone 01865 312540; e-mail mherson@oxfam.org.uk ] The Taliban have…

TABLE OF CONTENTS Executive SummaryIntroduction Effect of the 1995 and 1996 Floods Results of the 1996-1997 UN Consolidated Inter-agency Appeal Current Needs Coordination, Monitoring, Reporting Duration of the Appeal Preparation of the Appeal SectorsProject Summaries EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The present Appeal, prepared by the United Nations…

Displaced people continue to enter Kabul at a relentless rate from the Shomali Valley, which stretches northwards from the city up to the start of the Hindu Kush mountain range. The displacement which began at the end of December, and…