Reports

Dr. Michel Thieren, EHA Country Operation Medical Officer WHO Geneva, 25 January 1999 The Impact of the Hurricane The impact of Hurricane Mitch stroke the Central American subcontinent starting on 26 October 1998. Five countries, Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala El Salvador and Belize…

Hurricane "Mitch" cut a deadly path across much of Central America between 26 October and 1 November 1998. Torrential rains and high winds caused widespread flooding and landslides, leaving thousands dead and even more homeless in the wake of…

BOSTON -- Employees of Cambridge-based Lotus raised a whopping $77,378 for Oxfam America's Hurricane Mitch Relief Fund. The fund-raising effort marked one of Lotus' largest employee driven civic actions in the company's history. "A real grassroots effort" is how Chris…

Guatemala Finance Minister Pedro Miguel Lamport and Inter-American Development Bank Executive Vice President K. Burke Dillon today signed documents for a $40 million loan to Guatemala for reconstruction and repair of public works and preventive measures against flooding. The program finances…

Ref: OCHAGVA - 99/004 CENTRAL AMERICA - HURRICANE/TROPICAL STORM MITCH OCHA SITUATION REPORT NO. 16 22 JANUARY 1998 Status Report on UN Transitional Appeal for Relief and Immediate Rehabilitation in Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala and Belize: 1. In response to the extensive…

Ref: OCHAGVA - 99/004CENTRAL AMERICA - HURRICANE/TROPICAL STORM MITCH OCHA SITUATION REPORT NO. 16 22 JANUARY 1998 This contributions table is an annex to the Status report on UN Transitional Appeal for Relief and Immediate Rehabilitation in Honduras, Nicaragua,…

NR-12/99 - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Resources for repair and rehabilitation of roads, bridges, and drinking water system The Inter-American Development Bank today announced the approval of $25.8 million in concessional financing to Honduras to help repair and rebuild infrastructure that was…

By Michael Kahn WASHINGTON, Jan 21 (Reuters) - Sediment samples from a lake high in the Ecuadorean Andes show that the warm-water migration known as El Niño has been playing havoc with the world's weather for at least 15,000 years,…

Peter D. Bell Will Assess Long-Term Hurricane Mitch Reconstruction Strategy Peter D. Bell, president of CARE USA, will visit Nicaragua and Honduras January 31 through February 6, 1999 to assess progress in recovery from Hurricane Mitch. Bell will visit…

Matagalpa is a small country town that has now suffered the consequences both of conflict and disaster. Its population swelled from 25,000 to 100,000 in the space of 10 years because of an influx of refugees from the contra…