Rapports

One week after the terrible quake which struck Indonesia, leaving more than 80 dead and hundreds of wounded, people are still too afraid to sleep indoors at night and are camping out on the streets or in their gardens.…

Surveillance The Provincial Department of Health's Refugee Health Task Force, in cooperation with a visiting WHO epidemiological consultant, have released cumulative refugee morbidity and mortality data through week 21of 2000. Epidemiological data reported from 40 sentinel refugee sites encompass approximately 90,000 refugees.…

Ref: OCHA/GVA - 2000/0116 OCHA Situation Report No. 5 Indonesia - Earthquake 12 June 2000 The present report is a summary of situation reports provided by the United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination (UNDAC) team in Bengkulu as of 11 June 2000.…

Jakarta (dpa) - Days after coming under strong criticism, Indonesia's beleaguered government has apologised to residents of the earthquake-ravaged province of Bengkulu as more aftershocks continued to rattle the devastated region on Monday. A meteorology and geophysics official at the Bengkulu's…

Peshawar, 11 June, 2000 Swedish Committee for Afghanistan (SCA) has started implementing an emergency project, including deepening of 1500 drought-affected wells in Afghanistan. Within four months SCA will deepen more than 1500 dried wells. Each well is serving, at an average, 16 families.…

29 May - 11 June 2000 Rains bring death, destruction to Timor island Officer Khalil Mahat of the United Nations Civilian Police (CivPol) was driving to Viqueque from Dili on the night of 11 May when suddenly he discovered that the…

BEIJING (June 10) XINHUA - The Red Cross Society of China today offered 20,000 U.S. dollars of aid to the Red Cross Society of Indonesia to help rebuild homes of Indonesians who suffered from a recent powerful earthquake. An earthquake…

Jakarta (dpa) - Relief teams in Indonesia's earthquake-ravaged province of Bengkulu fought Saturday to head off epidemics while survivors struggled to rebuild their shattered homes. Bengkulu Governor Hasan Zen warned disease threatened the lives of survivors, most of whom were homeless…

Dili, 9 June 2000 MALAYSIAN CIVILIAN POLICE FEARED DROWNED A Malaysian officer from the Civilian Police, missing at sea off the coast of East Timor's Oecussi enclave since Wednesday morning, is feared to have drowned. A helicopter search, which began at 11:30 a.m.…

Extract from IOM Press Briefing Notes KOSOVO - SECURITY INCIDENT - On Tuesday an IOM-rented minibus traveling from to Pristina was stopped by an angry crowd while transiting through the Serbian village of Grachanica. Two grenades were thrown in market…