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19 Apr 1990

Indonesia
Indonesia Earthquake Apr 1990 UNDRO Information Reports 1 - 2

Report
— UN Department of Humanitarian Affairs


UNDRO 90/0615

INDONESIA - EARTHQUAKE
UNDRO INFORMATION REPORT NO. 1
19 APRIL 1990

1. UNDP/UNDRO RESIDENT REPRESENTATIVE CONFIRMED STRONG EARTHQUAKE OCCURRED ON 18 APRIL AT 21:39 LOCAL TIME (13:39 GMT) IN MINAHASSA PENINSULA, ISLAND OF SULAWESI ABOUT 150 MILES WEST OF MANADO, ABOUT 1,100 MILES EAST OF JAKARTA OR ABOUT 900 MILES SOUTH OF MANILA, PHILIPPINES.

2. MAGNITUDE WAS COMPUTED AT 6.5 ON RICHTER SCALE. PRELIMINARY EPICENTER LOCATED AT LATITUDE 0.7 DEGREES NORTH, LONGITUDE 122.7 DEGREES EAST. DEPTH OF HYPOCENTER 50 KM.

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19 Apr 1990

Guyana
Guyana Power Shortage Apr 1990 UNDRO Special Appeal

Report
— UN Department of Humanitarian Affairs
UNDRO 89/0250

S P E C I A L A P P E A L

POWER SHORTAGE IN GUYANA

1. DUE TO BREAKDOWN OF POWER GENERATING STATIONS FOLLOWING RECENT FLOODS, SAFE WATER SUPPLY AND SEWERAGE DISPOSAL IN GEORGETOWN PROVINCE HAVE BEEN DISRUPTED. POWER SHORTAGE
RENDERED INOPERATIVE DRAINAGE PUMPS CONSIDERED ESSENTIAL. PIPING INFRASTRUCTURES, CONTAMINATED BY FLOODINGS, HAVE BEEN DAMAGED BY POPULATION LOOKING FOR POTABLE WATER. CONTAMINATED WATER EXPOSES THE POPULATION TO HIGH RISKS OF EPIDEMIC OUTBREAKS.

2. PRESENT LEVEL OF GENERATED POWER
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12 Apr 1990

United Republic of Tanzania
Tanzania Floods Apr 1990 UNDRO Information Reports 1-5

Report
— UN Department of Humanitarian Affairs


UNDRO 90/0592

TANZANIA - FLOODS
UNDRO INFORMATION REPORT NO. 1
12 APRIL 1990

1. SINCE 2 APRIL 90 AND CONTINUING THROUGH THIS WEEK, HEAVY RAINS HAVE CAUSED SERIOUS FLOODING SOUTHERN TANZANIA (COASTAL TOWNS OF LINDI AND MTWARA), INFLICTING CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE AND LOSS OF LIFE. MORE RAINS FORECAST FOR SOUTHERN COASTAL AREAS.

2. 52 DEATHS RECORDED (36 IN LINDI, 16 IN MTWARA) AND 7,000 PERSONS HOMELESS.

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01 Apr 1990

World
Starving In Silence: A Report On Famine and Censorship

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— Article 19
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The themes addressed in this report include: censorship as a cause of famine and the role of censorship in delaying relief of starvation. The case studies that comprise the two sections of the document include China's famine of 1959-1961 and the famines in the Horn of Africa in the 1980's.

The report posits that censorship played a pivotal and disastrous role in each of these cases.

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