Madagascar
Secretary-General Kofi Annan is deeply concerned over the situation in Madagascar, where flooding caused by Cyclone Gloria has reportedly affected 560,000 people and made 10,000 homeless, a United Nations spokesman said today in New York. Spokesman Fred Eckhard said that…
Madagascar
Press Release SG/SM/7328 - 20000309 The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan: The Secretary-General is deeply concerned over the effects of flooding caused by Cyclone Gloria in Madagascar. He has learned from preliminary reports that…
Madagascar
JOHANNESBURG, 8 March (IRIN) - As the government of Madagascar launched an international appeal for aid to help over half a million people affected by floods, senior humanitarian officials on Wednesday described the situation as "desperate". The scale of the crisis Dr…
Madagascar
ROME - Le Programme Alimentaire Mondial des Nations Unies lance vendredi une opération d'urgence pour acheminer par avion une aide alimentaire aux dizaines de milliers de personnes affectées par les inondations à Madagascar. Selon le PAM, plus d'un demi-million de personnes…
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With aid to Mozambique in full swing, the UK's Department for International Development (DFID) today announced further assistance - this time to help flood victims in neighbouring Madagascar and Zimbabwe. The floods, which have laid waste to vast areas of Mozambique,…
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ROME - The United Nations World Food Programme is launching its first airlift operation Friday to deliver urgently needed emergency food rations to tens of thousand of people left destitute by floods in Madagascar. The agency warned that more than…
Madagascar
Rome (dpa) - The U.N. World Food Program (WFP) will launch Friday its first airlift operation aimed at delivering emergency food rations to victims of flooding in Madagascar. WFP, which acts as the U.N.'s front-line agency in the fight against…
Madagascar
From 1 December 1999 until 3 March 2000, a total of 12 481 cases of cholera with 736 deaths was reported, compared with a total of 8 665 cases with 490 deaths reported during the period March to November…
Madagascar
Ref: OCHA/GVA - 2000/0047 OCHA Situation Report No. 3 Madagascar - Cyclone Eline and Gloria 8 March 2000 Situation 1. On 7 March the Heads of UN agencies in Madagascar discussed a common strategy in response to the impact of the two cyclones.…
Madagascar
ANTANANARIVO, March 7 (Reuters) - The Madagascar government on Tuesday appealed for food and medicine to help hundreds of thousands of people displaced by floods. Though overshadowed by the tragedy in nearby Mozambique, 600,000 people on the Indian Ocean island…
