Honduras: Floods - Sep 1999 Updates

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...

Rome, February 2000 HIGHLIGHTS FAO now estimates world cereal output in 1999 at 1 872 million tonnes, (including rice in milled terms), above average, and only slightly below the previous year's...

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...

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, Nov 12 (Reuters) - Almost 3,000 Hondurans have been evacuated and thousands more isolated by flooding as heavy rains continued along the country's Caribbean coast, emergency...

Ref: OCHA/GVA - 99/0205 Honduras - Floods OCHA - Situation Report No.7 5 November 1999 Situation 1. On the 28 October 1999, a tropical disturbance arose in the Caribbean Sea, close to Nicaragua. On...

Torrential rains and flooding in September and the first half of October have affected the country, particularly in the Sula Valley, in the north, near the industrial city of San Pedro de Sula. High...

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...

This report covers the Emergency (No. 33/98) and Transitional (02/99) Appeals related to the Hurricane Mitch operation. It is a consolidated narrative and interim financial report for the period...

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...

1. BACKGROUND The torrential rains that hit Honduras in mid September caused flash flooding in the towns of Juticalpa and Santa Rosa de Copán and river levels to rise throughout the country, leading...

Ref: OCHA/GVA - 99/0177 Honduras Floods OCHA Situation Report No. 6 13 October 1999 Red alert downgraded to yellow 1. According to the UN Resident Coordinator in Honduras, torrential rains were...

More than 100,000 people have been displaced and 70 have died as a result of heavy rains in Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala and El Salvador. Mexico is now bearing the brunt of the rains as the...

The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Ms. Liz O'Donnell TD, has annnounced grant-aid of =A3150,000 to three countries in central America to assist them in their efforts to combat the effects of...

ROME, Oct 8 (Reuters) - The U.N.'s food aid agency warned on Friday that Central America was facing a $40 million loss of crops and a major food crisis after recent heavy rain which killed more than...

ROME - Nearly a year after Hurricane Mitch savaged the countries of Central America, creating the worst humanitarian crisis in the region in over 100 years, unusually heavy rainfalls are now...

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...