Rapports

BANGKOK, 30 August 2004 -- As landmines and other unexploded ordnance (UXO) continue indiscriminately to maim and kill children across the region, UNICEF called today for governments to redouble their efforts to prevent conflict-related injuries, which represent the fourth leading…

COLOMBO, Aug 29, 2004 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The Scandinavian truce monitors overseeing a ongoing cease-fire between the Sri Lankan government and the Tamil Tiger rebels are confident that there is neither danger to the cease-fire nor an imminent…

COLOMBO, Aug 26, 2004 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Sri Lankan government said on Thursday that it is nearing the end of patience with the Tamil Tiger rebels but insisted that the country would not return to the ethnic war.…

World Vision has provided drinking water to 8,200 people in five drought-affected villages in its Thanamalvilla Area Development Program (ADP). The water distribution program began today, with the assistance of the divisional secretariat in the area. Fifty 1,000-litre drinking water…

COLOMBO, Aug 25, 2004 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The international truce monitors observing Sri Lanka's fragile ceasefire with the Tamil Tiger rebels Wednesday traveled to the north to meet with the rebel leadership, defense sources said. Trond Furuhovde, the head…

Mr. James Entwistle, Charge' d'Affaires ad interim at the U.S. Embassy in Colombo, today inaugurated three U.S. government-funded projects in Jaffna aimed at restoring basic services and improving livelihoods for conflict-affected segments of the population. The projects represent approximately $275,000 in…

Colombo (dpa) - Suspected Tamil rebels shot dead a member of a breakaway group inside a courthouse in eastern Sri Lanka Tuesday as killings between rival groups further endangered a ceasefire monitored by Scandinavian representatives, military officials said. The rival group…

COLOMBO, Aug 23, 2004 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Violence that has plagued Sri Lanka's eastern region continued on Monday when a government soldier came under gunfire, defense officials said. The soldier on a road patrol at Mankerni north of Batticaloa was…

Colombo (dpa) - Sri Lanka is seeking foreign assistance to help more than half a million families affected by a severe drought which has damaged crops and left people without drinking water in some of the areas, Social Service…

Colombo (dpa) - Sporadic attacks by Tamil rebels and one of their breakaway groups were continuing in the eastern part of Sri Lanka despite a Norwegian-backed ceasefire in operation pending the resumption of talks between rebels and the government,…