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01 Jun 2004

World
Manejo de Alojamientos Temporales: Albergues

Report
— Comisión Nacional de Prevención de Riesgos y Atención de Emergencias
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La comisión de Prevención de Riesgos y Atención de Emergencias de Costa Rica (CNE), como ente encargado de velar por la prevención y la mitigación del riesgo, y la atención y rehabilitación de las emergencias en Costa Rica, para evitar o minimizar el dano que nos producen los desastres, ha organizado planes de emergencia para ser aplicados en nuestros hogares, centros de trabajo las comunidades, para garantizar comunidades seguras y preparadas.

La situación de desastre coloca a toda una comunidad en una circunstancia de cambio agudo para lo cual no estaba
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01 Jun 2004

Haiti + 1 other
Dominican Republic and Haiti: Floods Appeal No. 13/2004 Operations Update No. 1

Report
— IFRC


The Federation's mission is to improve the lives of vulnerable people by mobilizing the power of humanity. It is the world's largest humanitarian organization and its millions of volunteers are active in over 181 countries.
In Brief

Appeal No. 13/04; Operations Update no. 1; Period covered: 28 to 31 May, 2004; Appeal coverage: 45%. Note: the list of contributions for this revised appeal is currently being updated, and willb e made available in the next Operations Update (no. 2) to be issued shortly.

Appeal history:

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01 Jun 2004

Dominican Republic + 1 other
International Aid responds to the flooding in the Dominican Republic and Haiti

Report
— International Aid
Spring Lake, MI - June 1, 2004: International Aid is responding to the recent floods in Haiti in the following ways:
Providing ground logistics for the distribution of 6 water filtration systems with our partner, Water Mission International. Three of these systems are targeted for the Dominican Republic and 3 for Haiti. Each system is capable of treating up to 10,000 gallons per day - enough to sustain a community of 3,000 people.

Seeking the permission of the governments of the Dominican Republic and Haiti to import up to 50 pallets of nutritional

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01 Jun 2004

Chad + 1 other
Over 80,000 relocated in Chad as Darfur exodus continues

Report
— UN High Commissioner for Refugees
BAHAI, Chad, June 1 (UNHCR) - As the exodus from Sudan's Darfur region continues, UNHCR is rushing to assist hundreds of recent arrivals near the Chad-Sudan border in a massive operation that has already moved more than 80,000 refugees to camps in eastern Chad.
Given the sheer distances involved, it has been hard for the UN refugee agency and its partners to monitor new arrivals at every point along a 600-km stretch of border between western Sudan and eastern Chad, where an estimated 125,000 refugees have sought refuge after fleeing fighting in the Darfur region since early last year.
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01 Jun 2004

Dominican Republic + 1 other
Dominican Republic: Floods OCHA Situation Report No. 6

Report
— UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Ref: OCHA/GVA - 2004/0085
OCHA Situation Report No. 6
Dominican Republic - Floods
1 June 2004

Situation

1. According to the last report of the Centro de Operaciones de Emergencia (COE, Centre of Emergency Operations, No16) issued on 31 May the yellow alert is still in force for the Yuna River basin, from Hatillo to the Samana Bay (East), the Northwest region of the country as well as the border area.

2. On 26 May, the President of the Republic declared the municipality of Jimaní a disaster area and a public national

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01 Jun 2004

Dominican Republic + 1 other
OAS presents contributions towards disaster victims in Haiti and Dominican Republic

Report
— Organization of American States
Assistant Secretary General Luigi Einaudi today presented a $50,000 check on behalf of the Organization of American States (OAS), to aid flood victims in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. This assistance is provided from the OAS' Inter-American Emergency Aid Fund (FONDEM) for residents of the border region of both countries, where recent severe flooding left a heavy death toll and material damage.
The Assistant Secretary General presented the check to John Sanbraillo, Executive Director of the Pan American Development
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01 Jun 2004

Dominican Republic
Dominican Rep.: As water in Jimaní recedes, destruction becomes clear

Report
— IFRC
by Alejandra Ara=FAz in Jimaní
Jimaní is dry now, but the marks left by the recent floods will remain for a long time: not only on the ground, the broken trees, damaged houses and mud-covered streets, but more than anywhere, on the faces of those who survived. Another lingering effect is the smell -- a particular stench of rotting.

Since the beginning of the emergency, the Dominican Republic Red Cross activated, among others, their psychological first aid teams, who have been offering support to those who have not only lost their homes, but also their loves ones.

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01 Jun 2004

Chad + 1 other
Humanitarian crisis escalates in Chad-Sudan

Report
— AmeriCares
An AmeriCares airlift of emergency medical relief is scheduled to land in Chad on Sunday, June 6. Working with the International Rescue Committee (IRC), the aid will be used to treat refugees in Bahai, Kariari and other surrounding villages on the northern edge of the Chad-Sudan border. The aid includes water purification supplies, medications to treat diseases such as cholera and dysentery, first aid supplies and IV fluids. AmeriCares recently delivered two World Health Organization (WHO) health kits to address the basic health needs of 20,000 for three months.
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01 Jun 2004

Sudan
Sudan: Hundreds of thousands have no safe water

Report
— UN Children's Fund
DARFUR, 1 June 2004 - Access to safe water is a growing concern for the one million people who have fled their homes in Sudan's Darfur region. UNICEF has been working hard to supply safe drinking water to displaced people-doubling the number who can reach safe wells and water points to 300,000-but another 700,000 still do not have clean water.
The current humanitarian crisis in the region follows months of attacks by marauding Janjaweed militia groups, who have driven villagers from their homes, stolen cattle, destroyed wells
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01 Jun 2004

Liberia + 1 other
Liberia Humanitarian Situation Update No. 102

Report
— UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
25 May - 1 June 2004
GENERAL SITUATION

Highlights

UNHCR and IOM facilitate the return of 319 Liberian refugees

On 26 and 27 May, 319 Liberian refugees were airlifted from Abidjan to Monrovia through a joint effort by UNHCR and IOM. The refugees were earlier rescued by French Naval offices from a drifting Nigerian vessel, the Donana Elvira when its engines developed problems off the coast of Cote d'Ivoire. The refugees were spontaneously returning home from Nigeria and Ghana. UNHCR stated that its assistance was a special humanitarian operation and not an organized return.

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01 Jun 2004

Dominican Republic + 1 other
International Federation increases appeal for Haiti and Dominican Republic

Report
— IFRC
The impact of the floods and landslides that have devastated large parts of the Dominican Republic and Haiti will be felt for some considerable time to come, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said today, as it announced a significant increase in its appeal for the victims of the disaster.
On 28 May, the Federation launched an appeal for 912,000 Swiss francs (US$ 717,000). Given the severity of the situation, this has now been revised to 2.4 million Swiss francs (US$ 1.9 million). The operation aims to help 25,000 people by supplying them with
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01 Jun 2004

Sudan
Situation desperate in Darfur, Sudan

Report
— Presbyterian World Service & Development
Presbyterian World Service & Development has sent $20,000 to assist victims of the conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan. The assistance includes blankets, kitchen utensils, vegetable seeds for small gardens, agriculture inputs, educational materials, water pumps and basic health services. Some relief food will also be distributed under food-for-work programs.
For much of the last 48 years since its independence, Sudan has been trapped in a cycle of civil conflict, resulting in the largest internal displacement of people in the world.
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01 Jun 2004

Sudan + 1 other
Sudan Assistance Bulletin Issue No. 27

Report
— UN Resident Coordinator
KEY ISSUES OF CONCERN

Ebola-like outbreak in Yambio

Health authorities in Yambio County reported an outbreak of a disease similar to Ebola hemorrhagic fever in Yambio, Western Equatoria on 20 May 2004 which has so far resulted in 23 cases including 5 deaths. Laboratory testing performed by the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) and by the Centres for Diseases Control and Prevention (CDC) USA confirmed an Ebola infection in 10 cases. WHO South Sudan Early Warning and Response Network (EWARN) along with a team from WHO HQ,

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31 May 2004

Haiti + 1 other
Aide d'urgence pour Haïti et la République dominicaine

Report
— Government of Belgium
Le Vice-Premier Ministre et Ministre des Affaires étrangères étrangères Louis Michel est très préoccupé par les fortes inondations en Haïti et en République Dominicaine, inondations qui auraient déjà causé la mort d'au moins 2.000 personnes.
Sa sympathie plus profonde va aux populations de ces deux pays. Pour le peuple haïtien, à peine sorti d'une période de graves troubles politiques et sociaux, ceci aura constitué une deuxième épreuve pénible en juste quelques mois.

Le Ministre Michel a d'ores et déjà donné

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31 May 2004

Israel + 1 other
OPT: UNRWA launches $15.8 million crisis appeal for Rafah

Report
— UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
Press Release No. HQ/G/17/2004
Jerusalem -- The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) today launched an appeal to the international community for $15.84 million to meet the immediate needs of the people of Rafah. The appeal follows weeks of the most intense destruction in Gaza since the start of the intifada.

UNRWA needs the funds to provide emergency cash, food and housing assistance to the hundreds of families who have

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31 May 2004

Haiti + 1 other
Haití - República Dominicana: Informe de Situación 3

Report
— Government of Spain
1. El sábado 29 de mayo, partieron desde la base aérea de Torrejón de Ardoz, dos aviones cargados con ayuda humanitaria de emergencia, con destino a la República Dominicana. El primero de estos aviones, un Hércules C-130 del Ministerio de Defensa, fletado por la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional (AECI), contenía material humanitario de diversa naturaleza, ofrecido por cinco ONGD y la Comunidad de Madrid. El segundo de los aviones, un AN 12, fue fletado por Cruz Roja Española.

2. El envío del Hércules se decidió tras

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31 May 2004

Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Information Bulletin No: 3 Iran - earthquake

Report
— Iranian Red Crescent
Situation:
133 villages were reported by rescue and relief organization of the Iranian Red Crescent Society to have been damaged ranging from 30 to 80 percent by the 28-May strong earthquake measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale in there provinces Mazandaran, Qazvin, and Tehran.

A number of aftershocks were also recorded but of weaker intensity while the earthquake was of that much to cause even numerous rock falls along the roads which led to the burying of a number of cars under the rocks on the busy road of the affected areas.

According to the report received from

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31 May 2004

Haiti
Concern sends 8.5 tonnes of supplies in emergency airlift for Haiti floods

Report
— Concern Worldwide
Concern has extended its response to the flood disaster in Haiti by the airlift of 8.5 tonnes of supplies from its emergency stocks in Rotterdam. The supplies consist of water storage tanks, plastic sheeting, blankets, jerry cans, chlorine tablets and water testing strips. These supplies will add to the stocks of tents, household supplies and other items which the Concern team in Haiti has been purchasing locally in recent days.
Tom Arnold, Chief Executive of Concern Worldwide, said 'The floods have not only caused serious loss of life but
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31 May 2004

Russian Federation
UNICEF Humanitarian Assistance in the Northern Caucasus Situation Report No. 86

Report
— UN Children's Fund


1-31 May 2004
DONOR SUPPORT

During the reporting period, and within the framework of the 2004 Consolidated Appeal Process (CAP) for Chechnya and Neighbouring Republics, UNICEF's Emergency Programme in the North Caucasus received a generous pledge of US $ 714,286 from the Government of Sweden.

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31 May 2004

Russian Federation
OCHA Humanitarian action in Chechnya and Neighbouring Republics (Russian Federation) May 2004

Report
— UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
I. HIGHLIGHTS
A Bomb Blast Kills President of Chechnya

On 9 May, during the Victory Day festivities at a stadium in Grozny a powerful bomb blast, among a number of other people, killed the President of the Chechen Republic, Akhmad Kadyrov. The UN Security Council unequivocally condemned the terrorist attack in Grozny and expressed its deepest sympathy and condolences to the victims thereof, their families and to the people and Government of the Russian Federation. Having reaffirmed that terrorism constituted one of the most serious threats to international

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