Reports

SITUATION: An update of the Church World Service tsunami response in Indonesia. CWS staff is transporting water treatment and purification equipment from Medan to Meulaboh, on the west coast of North Sumatra (Aceh province) overland. Access to the west coast…

In Indonesia the death toll as a result of the tsunamis is around 115,000, but in the provincial capital of Banda Aceh and the devastated northwest coast of Sumatra more bodies are still being recovered, and the number of…

Overview Strategic issues - coordination, planning, monitoring - are becoming central to agency thinking as immediate emergency response coverage improves. In Banda Aceh, UN agencies and NGOs are consciously working to integrate their priority-setting and response strategies with local authorities' planning.…

A Boeing 747 cargo plane took off at Capital International Airport to affected area of Indonesia in the morning on Jan.19, which was a Chinese Red Cross charter plane and carried relief items donated to Indonesia Red Cross by…

Cáritas. Madrid, 18 de enero de 2005.- Poco después de haber puesto a punto los programas de emergencia para los damnificados por el maremoto del 26 de diciembre de India y Sri Lanka, la red Cáritas Internacional acaba de…

18th January 2005 Phase One of MERCY Malaysia Humanitarian Project kicks off with a great start with the mobilisation of a group of engineers and technical experts to establish the infrastructure for MERCY Malaysia's Internally Displaced Persons Camp, erecting…

U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUREAU FOR DEMOCRACY, CONFLICT, AND HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE (DCHA) OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA) Indonesia 114,978 dead , 12,070 missing 555,156 displaced Sri Lanka 38,195 dead , 6,037 missing 443,336 displaced India 10,749 dead, 5,640 missing…

Ref: OCHA/GVA - 2005/0011OCHA Situation Report No. 19 Earthquake and Tsunami Indonesia, Maldives, Sri Lanka Ms. Margareta Wahlstrom, United Nations Secretary General’s Special Coordinator for Humanitarian Assistance to Tsunami Affected Communities and Mr. Miguel Bermeo, Humanitarian Coordinator, visited the…

Mauritius: Mrs. Anna Tibaijuka, Executive Director of UN-HABITAT, launched the Tsunami Human Settlements Recovery Facility at the International Meeting to review the implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States. The United Nations Conference…

Overview The Department of Social Affairs has reduced its estimates of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Nanggroe Aceh Darusalam (NAD) and Sumatra Utara by around 100,000 to 603,518 persons. The figure is drawn from 20 areas in Nanggroe Aceh Darusalam…