Reports

Key issues (Developments over the past 24hrs, including priority needs and constraints, and the major actions that have taken place, etc): Coordination Issues: National Coordination Meeting was postponed till Sunday. Next meeting would be held on Monday (10 Jan…

$1 billion package for Indonesia On 5 January, the Prime Minister John Howard travelled to Jakarta and following a meeting with Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, announced the formation of an Australia-Indonesia Partnership for Reconstruction and Development…

This is a daily brief which will be updated every 24 hours Oxfam International consists of 12 organisations around the world of which Oxfam Community Aid Abroad is one. The Oxfams work together internationally in emergencies to coordinate a response…

Colombo, 8 January, 2005 - WFP has hit its target of dispatching enough food in Sri Lanka to help feed 750,000 people affected by the tsunami crisis. The food, which has been moving night and day on the backs of…

Major Developments The number of displaced persons has gone down to 512,690. Of these 338,935 are staying in welfare centres (temporary camps) and 173,755 are staying with friends and relatives. UNICEF reports that in the South of Sri Lanka many…

8 January 2005, COLOMBO - During the visit to Sri Lanka of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, the World Food Programme (WFP) announced today that it had hit its target of dispatching enough food in Sri Lanka to help…

AKRON, Pa. -- Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) is launching a $4.2 million Cdn./$3.5 million U.S. response to the earthquake-triggered tsunamis that have claimed nearly 150,000 lives. MCC assessment teams are working in Sri Lanka, Indonesia and India and will help…

Compiled by UNDAC on the basis of information received from national authorities and humanitarian agencies. Highlights The Secretary-General is arriving in Sri Lanka today, 7 January and will visit affected areas the next two days. A shelter task force led by…

As of 7 January 2005, Belgium has released EUR 30 million to help people affected by the tsunami. This includes EUR 15 million of emergency humanitarian aid and EUR 15 million for reconstruction. These sums are broken down as…

Devant l'étendue de la catastrophe, Jean Christophe Rufin, Président d'Action contre la Faim, s'est rendu sur place pour soutenir les équipes et les populations sinistrées. Parti mercredi, il est actuellement sur la base d'Action contre la Faim à Batticaloa…