UN launches Haiti relief effort
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The United Nations and international aid agencies launched major relief operations in Haiti today, as the death toll from hurricane Jeanne rose to 700 with a further 1,000 people declared missing.
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UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations has started organizing what it says will be the biggest relief effort the world have ever seen, to help the survivors of Sunday&#39;s tsunami.
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GONAIVES -- Two UN peacekeepers were wounded in shootouts with angry storm survivors and supporters of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, officials said yesterday of the first casualties during the force's 4-month-old mission in Haiti. Relief workers for Doctors of the World also were attacked in storm-battered Gonaives on Saturday night, and the French agency said yesterday it was evacuating its ...
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GONAIVES, Haiti - Bodies lay in growing piles outside morgues as U.N. peacekeepers planned the first major distribution of food and water Wednesday in this city devastated by floods that have torn apart families and left hungry crowds that have mobbed truckloads of aid...
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The United Nations rushed hundreds more peacekeepers to storm-ravaged GonaÃ¯ves on Monday to stem looting, while hundreds of weary Haitians lined up for
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WASHINGTON -- Humanitarian groups and governments across the globe launched the largest relief effort in history Tuesday in a desperate race to save thousands of tsunami survivors facing a new threat from deadly diseases.
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25 October 2004 - United Nations peacekeeping forces, together with Haitian National Police, have cleared the streets of Bel Air, a poor area of the Caribbean country&#39;s capital, Port-au-Prince, which has been in upheaval over the past three weeks, a UN
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PORT-AU-PRINCE : Disaster relief crews battled to get emergency aid to 170,000 people affected by floods that killed more than 700 in Haiti, a Caribbean nation that ranks among the world&#39;s poorest.
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Sri Lankan officials said Wednesday they will send troops to Haiti to assist the UN peacekeeping mission there. Nearly 750 soldiers from the small island nation off the coast of India with join 8,000 UN troops
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The United Nations relief agency has called for more international troops to be sent to the flood-devastated Haitian city of Gonaives to secure the delivery of emergency food supplies.
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The United Nations on Wednesday appealed for 130 million dollars to jumpstart its relief effort after the tsunami disaster and said more would be required soon.
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The United Nations and aid groups have launched a massive humanitarian operation in Kenya to assist more than 150,000 people hit by killer floods caused by unusually heavy seasonal rains.
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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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GONAIVES, Haiti -- Haitians surrounded by the destruction of Hurricane Jeanne prayed for the 1,500 dead during church services yesterday and gave thanks that their lives were spared, while the United Nations rushed more peacekeepers in to stem looting in the ravaged city of Gonaives.
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The massive global aid operation to help the victims of Sunday&#39;s earthquake and tsunamis in the Indian Ocean is beginning to deliver results.
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The UN is to begin new efforts to bring food aid to tens of thousands hit by Kenya's post-election violence.
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A delegation sent by the U.N.'s top human rights official began a mission Wednesday to look into reports of brutality and serious abuses in the weeks of deadly violence since the country's disputed presidential election.