Rapports

OUT LOOK The flood situation in the districts of Sylhet, Sunamganj, Habiganj, and Netrokona continued improving and that of Moulvi Bazar is likely to deteriorate. The flood situation in the districts of Kurigram, Rangpur, Gaibandha, Bogra, Naogaon, Pabna, Jamalpur, Mymensingh, Serajganj…

(NEW YORK: 27 July 2004) A new Operations Coordination Room has been set up to consolidate all assessments of the situation on the ground in Bangladesh, where the flood situation is deteriorating. The Room falls under the Disaster and…

Geneva, 27 July 2004 - Bangladesh is experiencing severe monsoon flooding, the worst since the 1998 floods. ACT members Rangpur Dinajpur Rural Service (RDRS), Christian Commission for Development in Bangladesh (CCDB), Church of Bangladesh (CoB) Social Health & Education Development…

CAFOD is warning of a humanitarian crisis in Bangladesh where floods have claimed hundreds of lives and left 20 million people homeless, marooned or jobless. Caritas Internationalis, the umbrella organisation for international Catholic aid agencies, has launched an emergency appeal of…

Delhi, Geneva, 27 July 2004 - The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is seeking more than 10 million Swiss francs to help South Asia flood victims. The funds will be used to provide food, shelter,…

By Anis Ahmed DHAKA (Reuters) - A boat carrying people to a flood shelter capsized in Bangladesh on Tuesday pushing the death toll higher as the worst flooding in years turned the capital, Dhaka, into an open sewer and disease…

Concern is warning of an increasing humanitarian crisis in Bangladesh as almost 75% of the country is now underwater. An estimated 25.9 million people have been affected by the severe flooding, with thousands of families forced to leave their…

International development minister Gareth Thomas today announced =A310 million to support flood-affected people in Bangladesh. The funds, available to organisations involved in relief work, will be channelled through the World Food Programme (WFP) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).…

By Anis Ahmed DHAKA, July 26 (Reuters) - Thousands of people took boats to work in Dhaka on Monday after floods inundated large parts of the Bangladeshi capital, forcing up to 100,000 people to cram into shelters. Many streets in the…

SUDAN DARFUR CRISIS Events: The first round of the Oral Cholera Vaccination Campaign in Kalma was concluded on 25 July. The State Ministry of Health, WHO, UNICEF, and Médecins Du Monde-France jointly conducted round one, which provided the first vaccination…