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DHA-GENEVA 93/0067A ZIMBABWE CHOLERA EPIDEMIC DHA-GENEVA SITUATION REPORT NO. 1 ON BEHALF OF WHO, THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS HEREBY ISSUES AN APPEAL JOINTLY PREPARED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF ZIMBABWE AND WHO FOR INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANCE TO VICTIMS OF THE CHOLERA EPIDEMIC AS DESCRIBED BELOW. INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANCE IN…

DHA-GENEVA 93/0062TANZANIA - FLOODSDHA-GENEVA SITUATION REPORT NO. 112 FEBRUARY 1993SITUATION 1. FOLLOWING UNUSUALLY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER LAST WEEKS, FLASH FLOODS HAVE HIT 10 VILLAGES IN LUSHOTO AND KOROGWE DISTRICTS OF TANGA REGION (NORTHEASTERN TANZANIA). 2. PRELIMINARY REPORTS INDICATE…

1. Introduction: Motivation: Famines in Sub-Saharan Africa and in particular the case study country Ethiopia - have been recurrent features of the past two decades. Different writers have, depending on the information available to them, generated different…

1. Introduction This study attempts to analyse an aspect of the behaviour of food-grain market prices in a mainly non-market economy under conditions of impending famine. Non-market because Ethiopian government policy, up until 1990, had suppressed private…

1. Introduction In order to discuss objectively issues of famine prevention and properly assess the extent of vulnerability to famines which characterize the case-study country, it is essential to try to establish first the causation of the…

Resolution 751 (1992) of 24 April 1992 The Security Council, Considering the request by Somalia for the Security Council to consider the situation in Somalia, Reaffirming its resolutions 733 (1992) of 23 January 1992 and 746 (1992) of 17 March 1992, Having…

UNDRO 91/0973 ETHIOPIA (FIGHTING)/ DJIBOUTI (MASSIVE INFLUX) WHO APPEAL UNDRO SITUATION REPORT NO. 1 10 JUNE 1991 1. UNDRO IS ISSUING THIS APPEAL AT REQUEST OF WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION (WHO). APPEAL COVERS HEALTH SECTOR ONLY. IF RESPECTIVE COUNTRIES REQUEST MULTI-SECTORAL EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE, CONCERTED APPEAL WILL…

UNDRO 91/0543MALAWI - FLOODS UNDRO INFORMATION REPORT NO. 1 15 MARCH 1991 1. UNDRO/UNDP RESIDENT REPRESENTATIVE IN MALAWI REPORTED THAT ON 11 MARCH 1991 FLASH FLOODS STRUCK SOUTHERN MALAWI NEAR PHALOMBE AND CAUSED SUBSTANTIAL DAMAGE TO HOUSES, CROPS, BRIDGES…

UNDRO 91/ MAURITIUS - CYCLONE BELLA UNDRO INFORMATION REPORT NO.1 8 FEBRUARY 1991 1. SINCE END JANUARY, AND CONTINUING THROUGH EARLY FEBRUARY, CYCLONE BELLA HAS PASS THE ISLAND OF RODRIGUES WITH WINDS OF UP TO 210 KM/H, AND CAUSED CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE TO…

UNDRO 90/1985 ZAMBIA - CHOLERA OUTBREAK - UNDRO SITUATION REPORT NO. 1 1. UNDRO/UNDP RESIDENT REPRESENTATIVE REPORTED CHOLERA OUTBREAK IN THREE PROVINCES (NORTHERN, LUAPULA AND COPPERBELT) SINCE EARLY DECEMBER. PRESIDENT APPEALED TO INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TO ASSIST AND PROVIDE EMERGENCY AID TO FIGHT SPEAD OF…