Rapports

Based on a an UNDAC briefing. 1. Clinical sequelae: # persons Deaths: 90 Serious injuries (eg fractures): 788 Other injured: 1789 2. Activites of daily living have returned to Bengkulu. Search and rescue teams have left. Water and food supplies appear adequate. The…

News Release No. 2000/419/S New Report Challenges Popular Notions about Origins of Civil Conflict WASHINGTON, June 15, 2000 - New World Bank research suggests that civil wars are more often fuelled by rebel groups competing with national governments…

JAKARTA (June 14) XINHUA - The Chinese Red Cross here Wednesday donated 20,000 U.S. dollars to quake victims in Indonesia's Bengkulu province. The donation ceremony was held at the Indonesian Red Cross in central Jakarta and attended by Chinese charge d'affairs…

Observations and Analysis of a Fact-Finding Mission to the East Timorese Refugee Camps in West Timor, by Karen Orenstein, East Timor Action NetworkI. INTRODUCTION A delegation of congressional staffers, human rights advocates, journalists, and a noted filmmaker…

Dili, 14 June 2000 BODIES OF UNAMET STAFF EXHUMED The bodies of two UNAMET personnel, killed in the violence last September, were exhumed in Ermera on 10 June. This is the first exhumation done in connection with investigations into the deaths…

Funding DFID (UK) has agreed to grant 100,000 pounds to FAO's livestock programme in Afghanistan. However, the assistance community continues to seek funds for the US$67 million appeal for the drought in Afghanistan. Afghanistan Crop Assessment The report of the WFP/FAO crop assessment mission…

WASHINGTON, D.C. (BWA) -- The North Korean government's Flood Damage Rehabilitation Committee has invited Baptist World Aid and Hungarian Baptist World Aid (HBAid), to send relief workers to North Korea for two to three months from September. The invitation follows…

THIS APPEAL SEEKS CHF 4,872,921 IN CASH, KIND AND SERVICES TO ASSIST 80,000 BENEFICIARIES FOR 4 MONTHS Summary The Federation launched a preliminary appeal for assistance on 6 June, less than 48 hours after a severe earthquake struck…

Rome, June 2000Extracts from FAO/GIEWS Food Outlook No. 3, 2000 HIGHLIGHTS Latest indications continue to point to a larger cereal output in 2000. However, based on the current forecasts, total cereal production would not be sufficient to meet…

ISLAMABAD, June 13 (APP): Government is utilising all resources to provide aid to the drought affectees of Balochistan and Sindh. In Kharan district of Balochistan, three relief camps have been set up where the affectees are being provided food,…