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Former US President Clinton (L) and OCHA's Jan Egeland

UN humanitarian officials call on international community to learn from tsunami

25 April 2005
Former United States President Bill Clinton, who is the United Nations Special Envoy on Tsunami Recovery, and UN-allied Business Roundtable's chief Hank McKinnell today joined UN emergency coordinator Jan Egeland in calling on the international community to build on what has been learned from the Indian Ocean disaster.

Tsunami early warning system for Indian Ocean crucial after latest quakes – UN

18 April 2005
The United Nations is redoubling its call to Indian Ocean countries and donor nations to “really commit themselves” to setting up within the next 14 months a tsunami early warning system which, had it already existed, might have saved tens of thousands of the more than 200,000 lives lost to December’s disaster.

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.