Rapports

Security: East Timor security remains at UN Security Phase 3. Road movements were downgraded to a minimum of 2 vehicles and 2 staff on green routes. OCHA Jakarta reports that all UN agencies left Atambua today, due to the security…

Update on Displacement The United Nations is engaged in a race against time in trying to put out "the fires of displacement" in several areas. There is only about one month to go before weather renders certain areas of the…

AT A GLANCE Agreement guaranteeing access signed with Indonesian government IOM and UNHCR operate first return flight from Jakarta Three-day humanitarian mission returns to Dili WEST TIMOR The planned land repatriation of around 100 Timorese from Atambua to East Timor has been postponed due…

IOM NEWS RELEASE (14 October 1999, No. 836) Geneva-New York - The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) have agreed to cooperate to facilitate the voluntary, safe and organized return of people displaced…

East Timor From October 11-13, a four-person USAID team visited East Timor. The team met with representatives from INTERFET, UNAMET, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), and various USAID-funded non-governmental organizations (NGOs). On October 14, the Minister…

DILI, East Timor (Reuters) - A severe shortage of trucks in East Timor is complicating the international aid effort there and transport problems will soon be compounded by the onset of the rainy season, aid officials said Thursday. ''We do…

By Jane Nelson CANBERRA (Reuters) - East Timorese independence leader Xanana Gusmao will return home next week for the first time in seven years. Gusmao, who has not set foot in East Timor since his arrest by Indonesian authorities in November,…

PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE This is a near verbatim transcript of the briefing given by Ian Martin, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for East Timor, at the Turismo Hotel in Dili, East Timor - Thursday, 14 October 1999: IM: Good morning, I…

Unions help with the Aid Effort in Timor CARE Australia's Special Ambassador Jacqueline Gillespie has just returned from Dili, East Timor. Ms Gillespie was part of a special delegation made up of CARE and Union representatives visiting Dili to survey…

Though the situation brought on by the Tropical Storm Olga in July/August, which resulted in floods and landslides in the Kaesong area, the 3,000 people (581 families) who were worst affected, having lost their entire homes and belongings, are…