SOMALIA: Insecurity grips Kismayo
13 May 2008 13:28:16 GMT
Source: IRIN
Gangs of armed men have set up roadblocks in and around Somalia's coastal city of Kismayo, 500km south of Mogadishu, causing
serious insecurity.
China requests quake aid - Japan foreign minister
13 May 2008 12:36:07 GMT
Source: Reuters
(Recasts with request to Japan for aid)
BEIJING, May 13 (Reuters) - China has asked Japan for aid after an earthquake killed nearly 12,000 people and Tokyo is set to provide an initial $4.8 ...
Eritrea denies Djibouti border accusation
13 May 2008 12:25:10 GMT
Source: Reuters
ASMARA, May 13 (Reuters) - Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki denied on Tuesday sending troops into neighbouring Djibouti, saying Asmara had no desire for another crisis in the Horn of Africa ...
INTERVIEW-Eritrea says U.N. scaremongering on war risk
13 May 2008 12:12:46 GMT
Source: Reuters
By Jack Kimball and Andrew Cawthorne
ASMARA, May 13 (Reuters) - U.N. fears that a pullout of peacekeepers on the Eritrea-Ethiopia border may lead to a new war are unfounded scaremongering ...
Saudi says Lebanon violence would affect Iran ties
13 May 2008 11:53:06 GMT
Source: Reuters
(Adds background)
RIYADH, May 13 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia said on Tuesday Iranian-backed Hezbollah's routing of the Western-backed government's supporters in Lebanon would affect the ...
Pro-govt Lebanon TV station to resume broadasting
13 May 2008 11:44:53 GMT
Source: Reuters
BEIRUT, May 13 (Reuters) - The pro-government Future TV station, forced off the air by opposition gunmen last week, will resume broadcasting on Tuesday, the station's head said.
Future TV ...
More than 18,000 buried by quake in one China town-Xinhua
13 May 2008 11:32:42 GMT
Source: Reuters
BEIJING, May 13 (Reuters) - China said on Tuesday 18,645 people were buried under debris in the city of Mianyang, neighbouring Wenchuan county, the epicentre of Monday's devastating earthquake. Some 3 ...
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Update: Cyclone Nargis Devastates Myanmar: ADRA Expands Response
13 May 2008 13:19:00 GMT
Source: Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) International
Silver Spring, Maryland—In a continued effort to assist the survivors of Cyclone Nargis, the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) has committed at least $235,000 in emergency funds for ...
TV NEWS FOOTAGE: Cluster munitions
13 May 2008 12:42:37 GMT
Source: International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) - Switzerland
ICRC urges states to finalize new international Treaty banning unreliable and inaccurate cluster munitions
Welthungerhilfe: aid reaches victims in Myanmar
13 May 2008 12:08:00 GMT
Source: Deutsche Welthungerhilfe (German Agro Action) - Germany
Rangoon/Bonn, 12.05.2008. Welthungerhilfe has successfully distributed its first relief supplies to the victims of cyclone "Nargis". In the last two days, around 800 families have received the ...
Empowering communities to achieve total sanitation
13 May 2008 11:13:00 GMT
Source: Plan UK
Plan UK recently launched a handbook on Community Led Total Sanitation to enable communities analyse their sanitation conditions and collectively understand the impact of open defecation on public ...
Aid reaches around 300,000 people affected by Cyclone Nargis
13 May 2008 10:50:12 GMT
Source: ActionAid
Our vision is a world without poverty in
which every person can exercise their right to a life of dignity. Our mission is to work with poor and marginalised people to eradicate poverty by overcoming the injustice and inequity that cause
it.
Situation "overwhelming"in Myanmar disaster zone
13 May 2008 10:13:00 GMT
Source: International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) - Switzerland
The situation in the Irrawaddy delta area in Myanmar is reported to be "overwhelming" according to Federation representative Bridget Gardener, the first international aid official to visit the ...
Church aid gets through to cyclone survivors in Myanmar
13 May 2008 09:42:00 GMT
Source: Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD) - UK
Local Catholic Church partners of Caritas Internationalis have begun delivering aid to the people of Myanmar following the devastation caused by Cyclone Nagris.
The storm hit the Irrawaddy Delta ...
Mercy Corps Emergency Response Experts Head to Myanmar
12 May 2008 22:44:00 GMT
Source: Mercy Corps
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 12, 2008
Contact: Joy Portella 206-437-7885 or Susan Laarman 503-341-3799
- First of four aid workers enters Yangon tomorrow
Portland, OR - Four Mercy Corps aid ...
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