Rapports

THE MERCHANT VESSEL MERCS "Ruhunu" arrived in the port of Point Pedro in the Jaffna peninsula on Friday (05) after leaving Chennai on Thursday (04) with 2675 metric tones of essential food items. The Sri Lankan Deputy High Commission in Chennai,…

Colombo, January 05, 2007 - AmeriCares, a nonprofit disaster relief and humanitarian aid agency, is supporting the Ministry of Healthcare and Nutrition's post-tsunami initiative to upgrade the District base hospital at Elpitiya to a level 'A' facility hospital. The foundation…

Attached below is the ninth joint UN agency North East situation monitoring report. This report is intended to give an overview of the current situation in the North East by tracking the trends of various conflict-sensitive indicators. The table…

21-28 December 2006 KILINOCHCHI & MULLAITIVU DISTRICTS Situation update There has been sporadic shelling in the evenings of December 23-27 in the Muhamalai areas. On 26 December memorial events for the 2nd anniversary of the tsunami were organized in Kilinochchi and Mullaitivu districts…

The Air Force is airlifting 10,800 kg of energy food for children and patients in JAFFNA today (25). The government has made arrangements to airlift biscuits, eggs, and energy drinks such as Horlicks and Nestamalt to JAFFNA under the…

The Tamil Separatist Tigers, their local and international supporters have from time to time taken up humanitarian issues. The lack or the scarcity of food and essential items to the Jaffna peninsula is one of them. Facts prove these allegations…

Adequate consignments of essential food items to the public in the peninsula has already been dispatched and are systematically distributed through the Divisional Secretaries. Ample quantities of drugs have been provided to hospitals. Arrangements also have been made to provide…

14-21 December 2006 KILINOCHCHI & MULLAITIVU DISTRICTS Situation update The general situation in Kilinochchi has been calm during reporting period. On Wednesday, December 20, 2006, MoD has granted GA Kilinochchi a permission to transport 700,000 liter of kerosene from Vavuniya for…

Baltimore, December 20, 2006 - It was one of the most devastating crises the world had ever seen. On December 26, 2004, a massive tsunami in the Indian Ocean took more than 200,000 lives and irrevocably changed hundreds of…

As the Sri Lankan civil war wages on, causing much suffering amongst the thousands of civilians caught in the crossfire, last month the Indian Prime Minister announced a one-off donation of thousands of tons of rice, sugar and milk…