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Leading sports organizations join UN response to Indian Ocean tsunami

14 April 2005
Leaders of more than a dozen international sports organizations today pledged to join the United Nations-led recovery efforts underway in the countries devastated by the late December earthquake and tsunami in the Indian Ocean.
Former US President Clinton and Kofi Annan

UN tsunami envoy Bill Clinton to ensure pledges are paid up, money wisely spent

13 April 2005
Declaring that "no one could possibly be better qualified," Secretary-General Kofi Annan today formally introduced former United States President Bill Clinton as his special envoy to head United Nations operations spurring recovery in the dozen Indian Ocean countries devastated by December's tsunami.

UN tsunami appeal well funded but world's other emergencies face huge shortfall

6 April 2005
The United Nations flash appeal for victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami was "an extraordinarily effective emergency relief effort," but all the world's other "neglected emergencies" are woefully under-funded even though the amount sought is only a fifth of what Europe spends on ice cream each year, a senior UN official said today.
Tsunami wreckage

100 days after tsunami, UN back in 'emergency mode' after latest Indian Ocean quake

4 April 2005
One hundred days after the massive 26 December tsunami in the Indian Ocean left an arc of destruction from Thailand to the Horn of Africa, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is back in action providing urgently needed relief to more than 200,000 victims of Indonesia's latest earthquake.
Earthquake victims survey damage to homes

UN rushes aid for at least 34,000 people left homeless by Indonesian quake

1 April 2005
At least 34,000 people have been left homeless by the earthquake that struck off northwest Indonesia on Monday, with the number expected to rise, and as relief supplies start arriving in large quantities medicine and medical equipment become high priorities following damage to hospitals, United Nations relief officials said today.
Victims of the earthquake

UN steps up relief operations to quake-ravaged Indonesian islands

30 March 2005
United Nations agencies stepped up relief operations today on the Indonesian islands ravaged by Monday night's earthquake, with a dedicated fleet of aircraft and boats delivering emergency aid and evacuating the critically injured. Water purification, food and logistics are among the current priorities.

UN agencies swing into action with relief missions after Indonesian quake

29 March 2005
United Nations agencies sprang into action today in Indonesia after last night’s undersea earthquake, sending observation helicopters and boats with relief supplies to islands off the coast of Sumatra, where preliminary reports described the situation as serious with many injured and dead and people buried under tons of rubble.
Jan Egeland

UN on alert after new Indian Ocean quake, calls for speeding up early warning

28 March 2005
United Nations offices throughout the area hit by last December's tsunami are on alert after a new earthquake struck the west coast of Indonesia today, and though no tsunamis have been reported this time, the shocks are a wake-up call for the world to speed up an early-warning system for the region, the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator said.
UNHCR staff with tsunami victims in Banda Aceh

UN refugee agency ends emergency tsunami relief operations in Indonesia

24 March 2005
The United Nations refugee agency is phasing out its emergency tsunami operations in Indonesia's Aceh province as the Government moves from relief to reconstruction, and expects to end by tomorrow what was an unprecedented programme for a body mandated normally to protect only those fleeing violence or persecution.
Devastated homes on the northern coast of Sri Lanka.

UN tsunami envoy brings words of encouragement to humanitarian workers

23 March 2005
A senior United Nations envoy for reconstruction in countries hit by December's tsunami has wrapped up a two-day visit to Sri Lanka with a message of encouragement for the humanitarian workers toiling day and night on the front lines of the disaster.