FSAU is managed by the FAO, funded by EC and supported by USAID-Somalia and WFP-Somalia.
FSAU partners are WFP-Somalia, FEWS-Somalia,FAO, UNICEF, SCFUK and UNDP-Somalia.

With the aim of helping relief agencies meet the special needs of older people in emergencies, these guidelines outline key approaches and actions to help the humanitarian community reduce the vulnerability associated with ageing, as well ways of enhancing the capacities and contribution of older people in emergencies.

In addition, wider issues relating to older people in humanitarian crises are explored, ranging from globally agreed principles of social and civil practice and global demographic changes, to the physical impact of the ageing process, common images and assumptions

With limited access to water posing a major constraint to increasing food production in developing countries, this report reviews various relevant issues, including agriculture's use of water, production and food security, overuse and misuse, floods and droughts, as well as improving rainfed production, irrigated production and policies.

Identifying increasing irrigation efficiency as one of the top priorities, this report forms part of FAO's commitment to help countries achieve both increased water security and improved food security.

These materials provide a useful tool for disaster managers engaged in planning and implementing relief operations for disaster victims. They include, but are not limited to, the following:

- Life threatening conditions and emergency indicators
- Site and shelter management guidelines
- Water and sanitation guidelines
- Medical management guidelines
- Food and nutrition guideline
- Capacities and characteristics of various aircraft
- Dosage and storage of vaccines

Generally agreed by most of the major relief

by Henry Meyer

SPUTNIK REFUGEE CAMP, Russia, April (AFP) - The United Nation's top human rights official Mary Robinson was mobbed by crowds of Chechen refugees Saturday when she visited this teeming tent city.

In what appeared to be a carefully organised protest by the refugees, children brandished placards with slogans such as "stop the genocide of the Chechen people" and "put the guilty in the Chechen war on trial."

Screaming women surged up to the UN human rights commissioner as she made her way around the camp, surrounded by

Pristina, 01 April 2000
by Lt.-Cdr. Philip Anido, KFOR Spokesperson

Exercise Dynamic Response 2000

Troops of the Special Reserve Force have entered the final phase of Exercise Dynamic Response 2000 today. They are practicing assault tactics using helicopter airlift and deployment by road. Several combat air support missions are scheduled to test joint operations techniques.

Mitrovica Footbridge Opens

KFOR French Engineers have completed the construction of the new footbridge that crosses the Ibar River in front