Rapports

Two Indonesian navy ships have evacuated more than 700 people after an attack on their village in Maluku province on Monday. Muslim fighters killed scores of people in the attack on the Christian village of Duma, on Halmahera island. The refugees…

News Release No: 2000/443/EAP LISBON, June 21, 2000--The World Bank and the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) today signed agreements for grants to the sectors of education and agriculture, bringing the programs under the World Bank administered…

A group of armed men has attacked peacekeepers of the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET), causing damage to buildings but no injuries, the UN mission said today in the capital Dili. According to UNTAET, an infantry position of…

When the house started shaking late at night on June 4, Esa's grandmother rushed to rescue her from falling walls and roof tiles. She managed to protect Esa who survived with a broken left leg but her grandmother passed…

Dili, 21 June 2000 NEW STRUCTURE OF NCC PROPOSED CNRT and UNTAET have agreed on the new composition and structure of the National Consultative Council (NCC). The new expanded 33-member NCC is also likely to have a change of name.…

Pakistan (Baluchistan) 1st Phase Islamic Relief (IR) has completed its first phase of Drought Relief Operation (D.R.O) on 24 May 2000, in which IR reached to the people in their Killis (villages) and provided food for 1000 most affected families in…

The Government of DPR Korea has requested the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to assist in the preparation and organisation of a second thematic Round-Table Meeting on Agricultural Recovery and Environmental Protection (AREP). The aims of…

GENEVA, 20 June 2000 -- A record 4,383 mid-career professionals served with the United Nations Volunteers programme (UNV) in 1999 on development projects and in the expanding areas of electoral support and humanitarian relief, according to UNV's Annual Report for…

Stephanie Kriner, Staff Writer, DisasterRelief.org, with news reports More than two weeks after a deadly earthquake left almost 100 people dead, hundreds injured and thousands homeless in the Indonesia province of Bengkulu, residents are trying to bring a sense of…

Returns: The total number of organised and spontaneous returns into East Timor from West Timor, other parts of Indonesia, Macau and Australia now stands at 163,752. On 17 and 18 June there were no organised returns to East Timor.…