Rapports

As Mozambique's worst floods in living memory recede, WFP's humanitarian operation faces a new challenge: feeding and helping to resettle hundreds of thousands of people. MADAGASCAR: NEWS FLASH WFP has started airlifting 400 tons of food aid to flood affected areas…

FAO GLOBAL INFORMATION AND EARLY WARNING SYSTEM ON FOOD AND AGRICULTURE (Circulated only for countries where foodcrops or supply situation conditions give rise to concern) Torrential rains and high force winds reaching up to 200 km per hour brought by Cyclones…

Tropical storm Gloria hit the northeast coast of Madagascar last week, only a few days after Cyclone Eline had left a trail of destruction over the island and Mozambique. The storm then moved over the centre of the island,…

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) (Panafrican News Agency, March 10, 2000) - The OAU Friday donated 200,000 US dollars to Madagascar which has been battered by two successive cyclones in the past two weeks, claiming many lives and starting a…

Two Cyclones cause severe flooding in Madagascar Geneva, March 10, 2000 The flooding disaster in the remote Island of Madagascar off the Mozambique Coast caused by two successive cyclones, Eline and Gloria, has been described as very severe with over 130…

Friday, 10 March 2000: UNICEF assessment teams travelling in the north-east of Madagascar have found serious damage to the island's subsistence and cash crops, with rice fields submerged for over a week and coffee and bananas swept away. The…

Emergency in Madagascar: Médecins Sans Frontières charters 35 tons of materials for disaster-stricken populations Press Release, Paris, March 9, 2000: Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has chartered a humanitarian assistance cargo plane to carry 35 tons of materials. Composed of medicines…

Ref: OCHA/GVA - 2000/0048 OCHA Situation Report No. 4 Madagascar - Cyclone Eline and Gloria 9 March 2000 Situation 1. The Government has today launched an appeal for emergency assistance to the international community following the passage of cyclone 'Eline' and ' Gloria'.…

The Disaster In the last four weeks, two cyclones have ravaged the Indian Ocean island of Madagascar. In mid-February, Cyclone Eline passed across Madagascar from the west, before exiting into the Mozambique channel and proceeding on to the African mainland.…

JOHANNESBURG, 9 March (IRIN) - An airlift of WFP emergency food rations for tens of thousands of people trapped by floodwaters in Madagascar is scheduled to get underway on Friday. WFP spokesman Francis Mwanza told IRIN on Thursday that many…