Rapports

Embassy of the United States of America, Colombo. Colombo - April 02, 2009: The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has donated $15 million (Rs 1.7 billion) worth of vital food aid for Sri Lanka to the United Nations World Food…

IDP situation as reported this week by GAs Displacement after April 2006 Number of Individuals Number of Families Location 73,654 20,149 21,590 5,995 Jaffna (displaced before Dec 2005) (displaced after Jan 2006) TBC TBC Kilinochchi TBC TBC Mullaitivu 63,023 19,667 Vavuniya 9,024 2,849 Mannar 3,829* 1,176* Trincomalee 7,958 2,097 Batticaloa 3,951 1,076 Ampara *Excluding IDP patients at Trincomalee Hospital. JAFFNA DISTRICT Situation update - The security situation remained calm across Jaffna District. The SLA continues…

By Rishani Wijesinghe, Communications Manager, International Federation in Sri Lanka As tsunami recovery projects near completion, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and the Sri Lanka Red Cross Society are concentrating efforts on developing a more…

Douglas Devananda, Minister of Social Services and Social Welfare and Chairman of Special Task Committee Northern Province, presently in Vavuniya is busy in visiting Welfare Camps where the displaced from Wanni are temporarily housed, to look into their grievances…

"Hundreds of children have been killed and many more injured as a result of the conflict in Sri Lanka. Thousands are now at risk because of a critical lack of food, water and medicines." "Children and their families caught in…

VANNI: AN estimated total of 42,855 VANNI civilians who had so far fled Tiger-dominated areas after 1st March 2008 are housed in 22 different centers for displaced persons (Relief Villages) in VAVUNIYA, MANNAR and JAFFNA Districts. The figure includes…

A large number of civilians fleeing the war in northern Sri Lanka have now arrived in the Vavuniya district. NRC is currently providing shelters and assistance in the transit sites. NRC is building emergency shelters for large numbers of IDPs…

COLOMBO, 6 March 2009 (IRIN) - Children caught in the intensified conflict in the north of the country are paying a severe price in death and injury and being traumatised, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the UN Children's Fund…

An AJWS program officer is currently in Sri Lanka, meeting with AJWS grantees. She reports: The situation in Vavuniya urgently needs attention. All Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) are being moved to closed "welfare" or "welcome" centers in Vavuniya. The government's own…

Foreign diplomats in Sri Lanka were taken to camps housing internally displaced people in Vavuniya, yesterday, and given a first hand view of the conditions at these camps and the measures taken by the government to assist the displaced…