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OCHA Nepal Situation Overview Issue No. 26, 28 Apr - 12 May 2008 (Relief Web)

Thu, 15 May 2008 12:56:55 GMT

Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

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Sichuan Province, China: Earthquake OCHA Situation Report No. 2 (Relief Web)

Wed, 14 May 2008 21:26:47 GMT

Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

Source : Relief Web (subscribe)

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Myanmar: Cyclone Nargis OCHA Situation Report No. 10 (Relief Web)

Wed, 14 May 2008 21:20:59 GMT

Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

Source : Relief Web (subscribe)

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Sichuan Province, China: Earthquake OCHA Situation Report No. 1 (Relief Web)

Wed, 14 May 2008 01:43:39 GMT

Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

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Tajikistan: Compound crisis OCHA Situation Report No. 8 (Relief Web)

Wed, 14 May 2008 00:45:40 GMT

Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

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UN sends envoy as Myanmar stalls on cyclone aid (ABS CBN)

Thu, 15 May 2008 22:48:53 GMT

UNITED NATIONS - UN humanitarian chief John Holmes plans to travel to cyclone-hit Myanmar in the next days to persuade its military rulers to open up to foreign aid, the United Nations said Thursday.

Source : ABS CBN (subscribe)

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UN hopes to send top aid coordinator to Myanmar (kansascity.com)

Thu, 15 May 2008 20:20:00 GMT

The United Nations wants to send its top emergency relief coordinator to Myanmar - if he can get a visa from the ruling military junta.

Source : kansascity.com (subscribe)

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BAN KI-MOON TO SEND UN'S HUMANITARIAN CHIEF TO MYANMAR (Stevie Wonder's Personal Blog)

Thu, 15 May 2008 16:00:00 GMT

BAN KI-MOON TO SEND UN'S HUMANITARIAN CHIEF TO MYANMAR New York, May 15 2008 12:00PM The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said he is planning to send the organization's highest ranking aid official to Myanmar, to boost efforts to tackle the crisis caused by Cyclone Nargis which swept through the country at the beginning of the month. Mr. Ban said there was "a sense of...

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UN envoy to visit Burma (Myanmar)

Thu, 15 May 2008 15:47:16 GMT

The top United Nations aid official will visit Burma soon to see if he can pressure the ruling generals to speed up the relief effort for survivors of Cyclone Nargis. UN Under-Secretary-General for...

Source : Myanmar (subscribe)

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False Weather Warning by U.S. Military to Press Myanamar (Moon of Alabama)

Thu, 15 May 2008 15:15:42 GMT

An widely repeated Associated Press report yesterday claimed that a second cyclone is threatening Myanmar. The report was false and likely based on U.S. military propaganda. It may have led to further death in Myanmar. Here is what AP wrote: A second cyclone was forming Wednesday near Myanmar, less than two weeks after it was devastated by a killer storm, the UN said. The United Nations' weather...

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CAR: "Our daughters have no future" (Alertnet)

Thu, 15 May 2008 15:11:11 GMT

... experienced some form of gender-based violence, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Ndele's women used the occasion of the opening of an OCHA office in the town in late April to make their case to the Minister for Social Affairs and the Family, Solange Pagonendji N'dakala. "We live in a traditional society which still...

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Netherlands Gives 3.5 Million Euros to Help Drought Victims (All Africa)

Thu, 15 May 2008 15:05:52 GMT

... statement Wednesday.The statement said the 3.5 million euro contribution is channeled through the United Nations Humanitarian Response Fund, a fund administered by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA).The Humanitarian Response Fund (HRF) for Ethiopia is an emergency funding mechanism managed by the UN Humanitarian...

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MAP: Satellites Provide Close-up View of Nargis Floods in Myanmar (Burma) (satellite image) (Alertnet)

Thu, 15 May 2008 13:24:00 GMT

... throughout the Irrawaddy Delta, where 90-95 percent of the buildings were destroyed, reported the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. The government reported the official death toll to be more than 22,000, with 41,000 missing, said the UN. The senior U.S. diplomat in Burma estimated that more than 100,000 people may have perished in the storm,...

Source : Alertnet (subscribe)

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Sudan: Humanitarian Action in Darfur, weekly bulletin no. 15, 15 May 2008 (Relief Web)

Thu, 15 May 2008 12:49:27 GMT

Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

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Egeland urges tough line against Burma's ruling junta (AftenPosten)

Thu, 15 May 2008 12:06:44 GMT

Veteran Norwegian diplomat Jan Egeland, who's been a peace broker and top UN official, is urging a rather undiplomatic means of cracking down on Burma's ruling military junta, after it's repeatedly frustrated international efforts to aid Burma's cyclone victims.

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Myanmar disaster relief underway by 'remote control' from Bangkok (The Earth Times Online Newspaper)

Thu, 15 May 2008 11:45:07 GMT

... normally take because its being done down the phone," said Richard Horsey, a spokesman for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), the UN agency that is heading Myanmar's relief effort out of Bangkok. "It's all being done by remote control," said Horsey. Myanmar's ruling junta has reaped international criticism for failing to open the...

Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper (subscribe)

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MAP: China earthquake (as of 14 May 2008) (Alertnet)

Thu, 15 May 2008 08:59:00 GMT

... shown and the designations used on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the United Nations. Map provided courtesy of the ReliefWeb Map Centre, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

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Burma OKs New Constitution as Cyclone Death Toll Rockets (Fox News)

foxnewsonline@foxnews.com — Thu, 15 May 2008 08:57:46 GMT

The death toll from the cyclone in Burma could wind up climbing to between 68,833 and 127,990, the Red Cross said Wednesday, as the United Nations warned that a second cyclone was forming in the region.

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Myanmar cyclone toll estimate soars (OTB News)

Thu, 15 May 2008 08:20:43 GMT

The death toll from a killer cyclone in Myanmar could be “in the region of 100,000 or even more,” the chief of the United Nations Humanitarian Affairs said Wednesday. Share This

Source : OTB News (subscribe)

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Myanmar death estimate soars (Myanmar)

Thu, 15 May 2008 07:07:11 GMT

BANGKOK, Thailand (CNN) -- The death toll from a killer cyclone in Myanmar could be "in the region of 100,000 or even more," the chief of the United Nations Humanitarian Affairs said Wednesd...

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