Brazil: Mudslides - Aug 2000 Updates

IP/01/1256 Brussels, 10 September 2001 Launching the latest Annual Review of the Humanitarian Aid Office (ECHO), Poul Nielson, Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid, has highlighted the...

Appeal Target: US$ 131,747 Balance Requested from ACT Network: US$ 100,805 Geneva, 6 September 2000 Dear Colleagues, Three days of torrential rain on 30 July and 31 July 31 (125.9mm) and 1 August...

Appeal Target : US$ 112,233 BALANCE REQUESTED FROM THE NETWORK: US$ 91,291 Geneva, August 17, 2000 Dear Colleagues, The heavy rains fell in July and the beginning of August in the Brazilian States of...

RECIFE, BRAZIL=ADThe Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) is providing much-needed assistance to thousands left homeless in northeast Brazil following five days of torrential rains and...

World Vision is mounting a major relief effort in Palmeres municipality after a World Vision rapid assessment team found that the floods had reached a height of 4 meters above street level, the...

Mudslides caused by heavy rainfall have killed at least 47 people, and 120,000 more have lost their homes in the worst flooding to hit Brazil in 25 years. Walls of mud have buried homes and swept...

About 60 people are dead and some 143,000 homeless from mudslides and floods caused by five days of torrential rainfall in the northeast of Brazil. As reports say officials are calling it the worst...

Geneva, 11 August 2000 The Brazilian authorities have declared a state of emergency in the north east of the country where five days of heavy rains have left 60 people dead and some 143,000 homeless...

Ref: OCHA/GVA - 2000/0139 OCHA Situation Report No. 2 Brazil - Mudslides 9 August 2000 Disaster Situation Mudslides triggered torrential rains in Brazil's northeast. At present, the situation is...

The Brazilian authorities have declared a state of emergency in the north east of the country where five days of heavy rains have left at least 45 people dead and rendered thousands homeless...

OCHA/GVA-2000/0136 OCHA Situation Report No. 1 Brazil - Mudslides 4 August 2000 Background Brazil has a tropical and subtropical climate characterized by high temperatures and moderate to heavy...

RECIFE, Brazil - As Brazil braces for more flooding after the wettest July in 40 years, World Vision is delivering emergency supplies to thousands of children and adults in sponsorship communities in...

By Andrei Khalip SAO PAULO, Aug 3 (Reuters) - Torrential rains that killed 57 people in Brazil's impoverished northeast and made over 150,000 flee their homes in the past five days, stopped or...

Rio de Janeiro (dpa) - The death toll from storms and landslides that have battered northeastern Brazil for five days rose to 59 Thursday, with 130,000 left homeless in the Pernambuco and Alagoas...