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Focus on tropical cyclones on American continent “Hurricanes, cyclones, and typhoons are the same weather phenomenon; we just use different names for these storms in different places. In the Atlantic...

The Department of Disaster Management (DDM) is continuing efforts to improve its performance and efficiency levels as well as that of its partners. Recently, the department in collaboration with the...

Explanatory Memorandum 1 - Rationale, needs and target population : 1.1. - Rationale : The Caribbean region experiences multiple natural disasters. Tropical storms often take the form of a...

Location of operation:CARIBBEAN Amount of decision: EUR 500,000 Decision reference number: ECHO/-CR/BUD/2005/01000 Explanatory Memorandum 1 - Rationale, needs and target population: 1.1. - Rationale: ...

Church World Service Emergency Response Program Account #6273 $300,000 Situation Six-months after four major hurricanes -- Charley, Frances, Ivan and Jeanne -- and tropical storm Bonnie -- wreaked...

Long after Charley, Frances, Ivan, and Jeanne exhausted themselves, USAID continues to play a role in their clean-up in many Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) countries. USAID has provided an...

USAID plans to increase efforts aggressively to form public - private partnerships in the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region, Assistant Administrator Adolfo Franco told a major conference of...

by Allison Ali in Trinidad The end of the 2004 hurricane season has been welcomed by residents of the Caribbean. For some it means a break from the heavy rains and strong winds they have been...

Written by Lesly C. Hallman , Staff Writer, RedCross.org Wednesday, December 01, 2004 -- American Red Cross volunteers around the country are breathing a collective sigh of relief thanks to the...

The devastating effect of hurricanes Ivan and Jeanne, which hit the Caribbean in September and October 2004, caused substantial damage to the economies of several countries. According to a...

The Commonwealth of The Bahamas today received another financial boost to its hurricane recovery efforts, thanks to a donation from the Organization of American States' (OAS) Inter-American Emergency...

New York, NY - In what has been the most active hurricane season in a decade, residents of Florida, Alabama, and at least seven other states on the east coast continue to recover from the devastation...

2004-103 Washington D.C. - The United States is launching a $100 million hurricane recovery program from Congressionally provided funds to assist the nations of the Caribbean hit by the recent...

Fifty-ninth General Assembly Plenary 51st & 52nd Meetings (AM & PM) With the number of complex emergencies on the rise worldwide, the United Nations General Assembly today tackled one of the...

Richard Boucher, Spokesman, Washington, DC The United States is launching a $100 million hurricane recovery program as part of our commitment to helping the nations of the Caribbean hit hardest by...

United States: A Million Volunteer Hours and Counting Volunteers have put in more than a million hours in recovery projects in the regions of the United States pummeled by multiple hurricanes and...

(Extract) In May 2004, the U.S. National Hurricane Center called for a 50% probability of an above-normal hurricane season. Several of these storms battered the Caribbean and parts of the U.S,...

Note: This report updates the last fact sheet dated October 20, 2004. Total USAID/OFDA Humanitarian Assistance to the Caribbean: $9,045,937 Total U.S. Government (USG) Humanitarian Assistance to the...

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Sudan: UMCOR Team Heads for Darfur The United Nations calls it "a crisis out of control." A 14-year-old resident of an internally displaced persons' camp in the region told an aid worker, "We have...