Rapports

Appeal Target: US$ 1,066,463 Geneva, 10 November 1999 Dear Friends, Two months ago after the referendum, the pro-Indonesia militia went on a rampage in East Timor which resulted in virtually the entire population of 850,000 being displaced. Over 250,000 East Timorese fled…

There is an urgent need to return East Timorese displaced from West Timor and elsewhere in Indonesia to their communities of origin in order for rehabilitation, reconstruction and development to begin as quickly as possible. The safe and orderly…

(99-61) News Release November 9, 1999 Ottawa -- Maria Minna, Minister for International Cooperation, today announced that the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) will contribute $100,000 to help flood victims in Vietnam. "The recent torrential rains in central Vietnam have caused flooding…

Hanoi (dpa) - Vietnam on Tuesday released its first detailed damage assessment on the country's worst floods in 35 years, with the report highlighting massive devastation in the central provinces amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars. The preliminary assessment…

I. Synopsis of Rains and Floods: From 01 to 06 November 1999, due to the effect of a cold front (in combination with the tropical convergence) and a tropical depression (05 and 06 November 1999), rains heavily occurred in a…

Recent torrential rains occurring from the beginning of November, 1999 have caused the worst flooding of this century in seven central provinces from Quang Binh to Quang Nam-Da Nang of Vietnam stretching over 375 miles. Rains stopped at the…

Secretary-General Kofi Annan has appointed a senior Japanese development expert as deputy head of the United Nations mission in East Timor, a UN spokesman in New York announced today. Akira Takahashi was appointed as the Deputy Special Representative of the…

Ref: OCHA/GVA - 99/0210 Vietnam - Floods OCHA Situation Report No.2 9 November 1999 Situation 1. Vietnam is surfacing from its worst floods for forty years. Storm Number 9, otherwise known as Eve, began with torrential rainstorms on 18 October 1999 and continued…

ROME, 9 November - The nutritional situation in North Korea remains fragile in spite of the country's efforts to redress chronic food problems, United Nations food agencies said today in their latest comprehensive food assessment report. "Given the scale of the…

DILI, East Timor - The U.N. World Food Programme is moving thousands of metric tons of food by land, sea and air throughout East Timor to feed people returning from West Timor and internally displaced before the rainy season…