UN says more cash needed for Pakistan quake relief
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Almost a year after a devastating  earthquake in Pakistan, the United Nations called on Thursday  for more international financial help for the health sector in  the disaster zone.
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The number of victims of the  Asian tsunami needing food stands at 1.8 million and could rise  further, a United Nations official said on Sunday.
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Donor countries are failing to provide  enough funds for temporary housing and job creation for  survivors of December's Indian Ocean tsunami, a senior United  Nations official said Monday.
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US Secretary of State Colin Powell says he expects international contributions to countries hit by the earthquake and tsunami disaster to be in the billions of dollars.
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The UN urges the international community to come up with more aid for flood victims in Bangladesh.
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The U.N. will launch an appeal next week to raise as much as $20 million to help about 400,000 North Koreans affected by serious floods, a senior U.N. official said Friday.
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Kofi Annan said $977 million is urgently needed to provide water, food, shelter and medicine over the next six months.
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UNITED NATIONS (CP) - Haiti and Grenada need $59 million US in humanitarian aid immediately to cope with the destruction wrought by hurricanes last month, the top UN relief official said Friday.
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The United Nations said that aid promised from around the world in response to Asia's tsunami disaster was now up to four billion dollars, as Australia, Germany and the IMF pledged yet more cash ahead of a key donors' conference.
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The United Nations has allocated $2.35 million from an emergency fund to provide humanitarian aid to Guinea, which is in the midst of a tense nationwide strike, a U.N. spokesperson said Friday.
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An estimated 30,000 to 50,000 Somalis need immediate relief aid in coastal towns hit by waves whipped up by the Asian earthquake, the United Nations said on Wednesday.
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Aid pledges for Asia's tsunami victims topped 1.6 billion dollars on a tide of New Year sympathy, but the United Nations warned it would take weeks for help to reach many survivors and that the death toll would likely rise to 150,000.
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The tsunami that crashed into coastlines across southern Asia is likely to present the United Nations with its biggest and costliest relief effort, the U.N. emergency relief coordinator said on Monday.
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GONAIVES, Haiti  - The United Nations will launch  a global appeal for $30 million in emergency aid to help Haiti  recover from floods that killed hundreds of people, the  executive director of UNICEF said on Wednesday on a visit to  the impoverished Caribbean nation.
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The UN appeals for $98m (Â£50.26m) to help Haiti recover from years of turmoil and meet humanitarian needs.
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WASHINGTON -- The US Agency for International Development is adding $20 million to an initial $15 million contribution for Asian earthquake relief as Secretary of State Colin L. Powell bristled at a United Nations official's suggestion the United States has been "stingy."
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (CP) - As the death toll from Asia&#39;s earthquake-tsunami catastrophe soared past 120,000, nations donated $600 million Cdn toward the world&#39;s largest relief effort, but UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said even more would be needed.