Rapports

World Vision Asia Tsunami Response - INDONESIA Update Health Aceh, on the northern end of Sumatra, was hardest hit by the December 26 magnitude-9.0 earthquake and resulting tsunami. The events of that day in particular inflicted a huge toll on local…

Ref: OCHA/GVA - 2005/0052 OCHA Situation Report No. 31 Earthquake and Tsunami Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Thailand, Seychelles, & Somalia Main Highlights In Indonesia, UN OCHA offices report good or improving coordination activities. In Sri Lanka, the Ministry of Finance and Planning…

Overview The evacuation process of dead bodies still continues, with BAKORNAS reporting (7 March) that 423 additional corpses have been recovered and buried in the past four days. Numbers of Affected People -- Earthquake & Tsunami1 Date Deaths and Buried Missing Displaced Aceh N. Sumatra Aceh N. Sumatra Aceh(in…

As weeks to turn months, the Red Cross and Red Crescent continue to work with the tsunami-affected communities across twelve countries in Asia and Africa. According to the authorities, the disaster left more than 286,000 people dead, 7,900 missing and…

In an agreement with the government, a so-called Memorandum of Understanding, Switzerland has launched Cash-for-Host-Families projects in two sections of Banda Aceh, the provincial capital which was devastated in the flood disaster. Up to 7,500 families who provide shelter to…

HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE IN EARTHQUAKE & TSUNAMI AFFECTED SIMEULUE ISLAND, ACEH AND NIAS ISLAND, NORTH SUMATRA Milestones for Nias Island (West Sumatra) and Simeulue (West Aceh) SurfAid has run clinics in 42 villages in Nias, the Hinakos Islands to the west of…

OVERVIEW Early on the morning of 26 December 2004, an earthquake measuring 9.0 on the Richter scale struck the west coast of northern Sumatra, triggering a series of powerful tsunamis. Waves up to ten metres high slammed into the coasts…

Overview BAKORNAS' reports indicate that during the month of February 2005, some 16,719 dead bodies have been buried in Aceh Province. Meanwhile the numbers of people missing and displaced remains fluid due to the on-going evacuation process and the mobility…

General situation Aceh province, on the northern tip of Sumatra, was the region hardest hit by the undersea earthquake and tsunami on 26 December 2004. Together with the Indonesian Red Cross (PMI), the International Federation of Red Cross and Red…

Trócaire is to open a new regional office in Jakarta, Indonesia to manage its response to the tsunami in South East Asia last December. The organisation received more than €22 million from the Irish public through a national church…