El Salvador: Floods - Sep 1999 Updates

Rome, September 2000 Extracts from FAO/GIEWS Food Outlook No. 4, 2000 Highlights Latest indications continue to point to increased cereal output in 2000, although the growth will be lower than...

Rome, June 2000 Extracts from FAO/GIEWS Food Outlook No. 3, 2000 HIGHLIGHTS Latest indications continue to point to a larger cereal output in 2000. However, based on the current forecasts, total...

Total Appeal Target : US$ 3,006,399 (Balance Requested from ACT Network US$ 2,070,812) Geneva, 7 February, 2000 Dear Colleagues: One year after Mitch the situation in Central America continues to be...

Hurricane Mitch Hurricane Mitch's week-long path of destruction through Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala at the end of October 1998 left thousands dead and missing, hundreds of...

Storm rains and flooding in September and first half of October have affected the country, particularly in the low lying areas of the Lempa River region, in the east, the Ahuachapán department, in...

ROME - In late October of 1998, Central America was struck by its worst storm in 200 years. The horrifying floods and mudslides unleashed by Hurricane Mitch killed at least 8,500 people, destroyed...

La nueva crisis humanitaria obliga a la ONG a reformular algunos proyectos iniciados tras el paso del huracán Mitch. Las lluvias torrenciales que las =FAltimas semanas han provocado más de medio...

Transitional Relief and First Phase Rehabilitation Special Report: Update and Focus on Regional Flooding The relief phase of the Hurricane Mitch operation is now over, however, current flooding in...

Earthquake and Floods Hit Southern Mexico: An earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter scale and widespread flooding brought on by torrential rains have seriously affected 10 states in southern...

This report includes: A) Indonesia East Timor B) Central America - Floods C) Burundi D) Sierra Leone E) Angola. From Manuel Aranda da Silva, Chief, Technical Support Service. Available on the...

Cynthia Long, Staff Writer, DisasterRelief.org Weeks of heavy rain have claimed nearly 200 lives in Central America and the death toll could continue to rise. In Mexico, the country hardest hit by...

The Disaster Heavy rains accompanying tropical storms have battered most parts of Central America, specifically Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua, for more than two weeks...

By Benjamin Blanco MANAGUA (Reuters) - Nicaragua declared a state of emergency Sunday after two weeks of torrential rain in Central America plunged areas barely recovered from the devastation last...

By Alberto Barrera SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (Reuters) - The death toll from two weeks of heavy rains in Central America continued to climb Wednesday as floods ripped away bridges and buried homes in...

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (Reuters) - El Salvador Tuesday declared a red alert state of emergency as heavy rains continued to pummel the Central American country and up to 2,500 people were evacuated...

HONDURAS: A "Red Alert" has been declared for the entire country of Honduras, as heavy rains have been falling in Central America for the past several weeks, causing the levels of the country's main...

HONDURAS: En Honduras se ha declarado la "Alerta Roja" para todo el país, debido a las intensas lluvias que han estado ocurriendo en Centroamérica durante las =FAltimas semanas, las que han provocado...

Ref:GVA/99/0166 El Salvador - Floods OCHA - Geneva Situation Report No.1 29 September 1999 Government declares Red Alert 1. The United Nations Resident Coordinator in El Salvador reports that the...

From WEEKLY NEWS 37/99 During its week-long passage through the Caribbean, along the south-eastern coast of the United States, southern Mexico and Central America, Hurricane Floyd caused extensive...