Iran: Floods - Aug 2001 Updates

Introduction The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) Regional Office for the Middle East and North Africa (ROMENA) supports disaster response and preparedness...

Global temperature in 2001: second warmest on record The global average surface temperature in 2001 is expected to be the second warmest on record, 0.42=B0C above the 1961-1990 average. The warmest...

TEHRAN, 6 November (IRIN) - Government authorities, national experts and UN officials will meet in the Iranian capital, Tehran, on Thursday to discuss the preliminary draft of an integrated disaster...

TEHRAN, 25 October (IRIN) - A team of UN experts returned from the northeastern Iranian province of Golestan on Sunday to establish a recovery and rehabilitation plan for areas seriously affected by...

Teheran (dpa) - Renewed floods after non-stop torrential rain in the past 48 hours have caused heavy damage to Iran's northern Caspian Sea province Mazandaran, the Khabar news network reported...

Teheran (dpa) - Northern Iran has again been hit by floods after non-stop torrential rainfalls in the last 24 hours, with one person killed, the official news agency IRNA reported Thursday. The...

This report includes: (A) West and Central Asia Region: (1) Afghanistan, (2) Pakistan, (3) Iran (B) Asia Region: Cambodia (C) Latin America and Caribbean Region: (1) El Salvador, (2) Guatemala, (3)...

Flash floods on 10 August 2001 hit the northeastern provinces of Golestan, Khorasan and Semnan, with an estimated 1.2 million people affected in Golestan, the worst affected province. The financial...

Ref: OCHA/GVA - 2001/0171 OCHA Situation Report No. 5 Iran - Flash floods 22 August 2001 This report is based on information provided by UNDP Iran Situation 1. The UN Inter-agency mission...

This report includes: Latin America and Caribbean Region: (1) Ecuador, (2) Peru, (3) Dominican Republic, (4) Nicaragua, (5) Guatemala, (6) El Salvador Central Africa Region: (1) Angola, (2)...

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesman Kris Janowski - to whom quoted text may be attributed - at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. 1. Former Yugoslav...

OCHA/GVA 2001/0169 OCHA Situation Report No. 4 Iran - Flash floods 17 August 2001 Urgent Requirement: At the meeting held with the UN Resident Coordinator, on Wednesday 15 August, the Iranian...

AFGHANISTAN: No progress on detained aid workers Efforts to gain access to eight foreign aid workers detained for allegedly preaching Christianity in Afghanistan have yet to prove successful,...

ISLAMABAD, 16 August (IRIN) - United Nations officials in Tehran on Wednesday confirmed that an emergency team would travel to northeastern Iran to conduct an assessment mission in the wake of one of...

Devastating floods in Golestan Province, in northern Iran, have left more than 200 people dead and hopes are fading to find alive another135 people still missing. Seven Iranian Red Crescent Society...

Ref: OCHA/GVA - 2001/0163 OCHA Situation Report No. 2 Iran - Flash floods 14 August 2001 This report is based on information provided by UNDP Iran, Iranian and international media Situation 1. Flash...

OCHA/GVA 2001/0166 OCHA Situation Report No. 3 Iran - Flash floods 15 August 2001 This report is based on information provided by UNDP Iran Situation 1. According to government report, the number of...

SG/SM/7913 Following is the text of statement issued today by the Office of the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan: The Secretary-General is deeply saddened to learn of the loss of life and...

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Devastating storms in northeast Iran may have killed some 300 people following what is thought to be the region's worst flooding in 200 years, officials said on Monday. They said...

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Flash floods sweeping northeast Iran have killed at least 53 people, but many more are feared dead, radio reports said on Sunday. Army helicopters are scouring the area for missing...