UN Tsunami Aid Gathers Pace, Delays Denied
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International efforts to aid desperate victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster are picking up pace, said UN officials, who dismissed as unfair suggestions that the response had been slow.
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United Nations officials acknowledged it will take days before tons of food, medicine and portable hospitals reaches tsunami survivors in devastated areas across Asia.
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Relief agencies are continuing attempts to send supplies to areas affected by the tsunami disaster. Is the aid getting through? Have you contributed to the appeals?
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The humanitarian catastrophe caused by the Indian Ocean tsunami is stretching the world&#39;s ability to respond, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has said, urging a sustained relief effort.
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Delegates at a UN aid conference will be asked to give firm commitments on helping Asian tsunami victims.
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Governments and rebels in Sumatra, Sri Lanka and Somalia must keep the peace or risk a cut-off in tsunami aid, the United Nations said on Wednesday, as Australia and Germany pledged more than &#36;1.4 billion in disaster assistance.
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The swift response to the Asian  tsunami prevented a second wave of deaths from disease and  malnutrition but the task of rebuilding is far from complete, a  top U.N. official said exactly one month after the cataclysm.
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The international response to a catastrophic tsunami in Asia has been quick and generous, a senior UN official said yesterday, playing down his earlier comments that wealthy nations were stingy.
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[World News]: United Nations, Dec 28 : A number of European nations and international organisations Monday began to provide aid for the Asian countries struck by powerful tsunamis.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi  Annan will visit tsunami stricken Indonesia next week, as the  world increased aid pledges to $2 billion for tsunami-hit areas  in South Asia, U.N. officials said Saturday.
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The United Nations has received $500 million in pledges of assistance for victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami. Half of the total came in one chunk from the World Bank.
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UP to 5 million people around the Indian Ocean waited for food, clean water and medical help today as the toll from Asia&#39;s tsunami climbed.
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The United Nations is adopting new steps in its global tsunami-relief campaign to guard against improprieties like those alleged in the oil-for-food program for Iraq, U.N. officials said Monday.
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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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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi  Annan intends to visit tsunami stricken Indonesia next week, as  the world increased aid pledges to $2 billion for victims in  South Asia, U.N. officials said on Saturday.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Rescuers raced against  time to get food and water to millions of tsunami survivors on  Tuesday, struggling to clear runways and fly aid into areas  where huge waves washed away roads as well as people.
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International donors have moved with  record speed to meet a near $1.0 billion appeal for immediate  aid to victims of Asia's tsunami, with over 70 percent already  raised, the United Nations said Tuesday.