Afghanistan
Peshawar, Pakistan (dpa) - Afghanistan's Taliban government has pressed helicopters into supplying food and water to famine-hit areas in the southern provinces of Kandahar and Helmand, the Afghan islamic Press (AIP) agency reported Tuesday. "We started the airlift five days ago…
Afghanistan
Missions A mission from UNDP's Emergency Response Division (ERD) is visiting Afghanistan and Pakistan from 16 to 28 April. The mission will travel to Kabul and Kandahar in Afghanistan.Mission members will review programmes funded through ERD and related capacity and…
Indonesia + 1 more
There is a continuing need to return displaced people in West Timor to their communities of origin in East Timor, in order for rehabilitation, reconstruction and development to begin. The safe and orderly return transportation of displaced people is…
Indonesia + 1 more
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has welcomed the signing of an agreement between the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) and the Government of Indonesia calling for cooperation in judicial and human rights matters. A statement issued on…
Afghanistan + 8 more
SC/6845 SPEAKERS CALL FOR CLEARER DEFINITION, TIGHTER TARGETING OF UN SANCTIONS AS COUNCIL DRAWS ON 'LESSONS LEARNED' TO REFINE SANCTIONS REGIMES 20000417 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Concerned by Impact on Innocent Populations, Vulnerable Third Countries, Members Stress Sanctions' Role as Behaviour-Changer, Not Primitive Tool Acknowledging…
Afghanistan + 8 more
SG/SM/7360 Following are the opening remarks of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the International Peace Academy Seminar on Sanctions, in New York on 17 April: I am very pleased to join you this morning for a seminar on an issue of critical…
Indonesia
JAKARTA (April 16) XINHUA - At least three persons were killed and two others injured in a minor communal clash in Halmahera island in North Maluku, Indonesia, on Saturday. The renewed conflict happened in the northern part of Galela sub-district,…
Mongolia
By Andreas Landwehr, dpa Ulan Bator (dpa) - Mongolia is suffering from its worst natural catastrophe for decades. The severest drought for 60 years has been followed by the toughest winter for 30 years. Blizzards have swept across the…
Indonesia + 1 more
Returns: On Thursday 13 April, 112 persons entered East Timor at the Batugade crossing point in Bobonaro District. IOM provided transport for the returnees to Batugade town, Liquica and Dili. In addition, IOM also organised the return of 25…
Mongolia
WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator J. Brady Anderson announced today the provision of $680,000 to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and the Mongolian Red Cross in response to the…
