Period covered: 20 May - 1 September, 1999 A violent cyclone on 20 May, 1999 affected over 600,000 people living along the Eastern coast line of Sindh Province. Over 82,000 houses were destroyed and...
Afghanistan + 7 more
Afghanistan Afghanistan has suffered appallingly through 19 years of civil war and subsequently has some of the worst indicators of human development in the world. The Taliban, an Islamic...
appeal no. 13/99 situation report no. 3 period covered: 21 June - 10 August 1999 The massive relief effort, which mitigated the worst effects of the cyclone, is almost over. To help the most...
Pakistan Red Crescent mobile medical teams are providing services in cyclone affected areas and helping to define needs and identify beneficiaries for the relief operation. Purchasing of relief items...
Albania + 5 more
Ethnic Albanians begin their return home. Kosovo -- "As peace gains a foothold, the crisis here changes but continues," cautions Vitali Vorona, Church World Service representative in the Balkans. On...
Press Release PI/1146 CYCLONE ITSELF WAS KILLER, BUT AFTERMATH POSSIBLY MORE DEVASTATING, SAYS UNITED NATIONS IN PAKISTAN 19990618 ISLAMABAD, 18 June (UN Information Centre) -- On 20 May, one of the...
Karachi (dpa) - Pakistan Saturday released a group of 107 Indian fishermen along with their 17 fishing boats and handed them over to a visiting Indian fishermen delegation, officials said. J. J...
Background on the Situation Almost two weeks ago now, a cyclone hit the Arabian Sea coast with winds of 170 mph, submerging hundreds of villages and wreaking general devastation in coastal areas of...
OCHA/GVA - 99/0065 Pakistan - Cyclone OCHA Situation Report No. 2 3 June 1999 Situation 1. The United Nations Resident Coordinator in Islamabad reported that the cyclone that hit southern Pakistan on...
The Chinese Red Cross has donated 50,000 US dollars to cyclone relief in Pakistan, providing much needed funding to assist victims of flooding in Sindh province. The Chinese Red Cross, which itself...
The following is a report on the arrival of emergency supplies in Pakistan. The supplies were approved for shipment on May 26 (Wed). 1. Arrival of the supplies in Pakistan The supplies were shipped...
ISLAMABAD (June 1) XINHUA - China's National Red Cross Society Tuesday donated 50,000 U.S. dollars to Pakistan's Red Crescent Society as relief assistance to the cyclone-hit area in southern Sindh...
CWS - Hotline 31/5/99 PAKISTAN -- CWS-Pakistan and its local partners are working to distribute emergency relief one tent, one tarpaulin, and one food basket each to 1,000 of the most vulnerable...
Background on the Situation On May 20, 1999 a cyclone hit the Arabian Sea coast with winds of 170 mph, submerging hundreds of villages and wreaking general devastation in coastal areas of the Sindh...
More than 200 people are dead after a cyclone hit the south-eastern coast of Pakistan on 20 May, with winds of up to 270 kms per hour. People drowned or were crushed to death as their houses...
The following emergency relief to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (provision of supplies) has been approved: 1. Emergency Situation On May 20, Cyclone 2A hit the coastal areas of the province of...
The search continues in Pakistan for more than one-thousand people still missing after last week's devestating cyclone in the south of the country. Jonathan Harley reports: The cyclone wiped out a...
CHURCH WORLD SERVICE EMERGENCY RESPONSE OFFICE Church World Service is the Humanitarian Agency of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. 35 Denominations & Communions Working...
Ref: OCHA/GVA - 99/0061 Pakistan - Cyclone OCHA-Geneva Situation Report No. 1 25 May 1999 1. The United Nations Resident Coordinator reports that a cyclone has hit the coastal towns of Thatta, Badin,...
This preliminary appeal seeks CHF 1,540,000 in cash, kind and services to assist 25,000 beneficiaries for 3 months Summary A tropical storm in the northern Arabian Sea developed into a cyclone which...
