tsunami

FAO, Italian cooperation launch redevelopment effort in tsunami-hit Sri Lanka

29 July 2005
In another United Nations-supported tsunami rehabilitation effort, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Italian Cooperation organization have concluded today a workshop in Colombo, Sri Lanka, designed to put the mechanisms in place for the development of ravaged coastal fishing communities.
UN-HABITAT at work in Thailand

UN agencies to assist Thailand with tsunami recovery planning

28 July 2005
As part of continuing efforts to help affected countries recover from the devastating effects of last year's Indian Ocean tsunami, two United Nations agencies have signed an agreement to help local government in Thailand with the rehabilitation planning for the areas hit by the killer wave last December.

UN steps up efforts to help Indonesian fish farming recover from tsunami

27 July 2005
Pushing ahead with its efforts to help Indian Ocean countries recover from the devastating effects of last December's tsunami, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has held a three-day workshop aimed at rehabilitating the fishing farm industry in Indonesia.
Former US President Bill Clinton

UN tsunami relief envoy Clinton renews call for effective warning system

25 July 2005
After a powerful earthquake shook India's Andaman and Nicobar islands yesterday, former United States President Bill Clinton, the United Nations Special Envoy overseeing recovery efforts from last December's devastating tsunami in the region, renewed his call on governments in and around the Indian Ocean to step up their efforts to create an effective early warning system.
Special Envoy Bill Clinton

Tsunami envoy Clinton urges UN to keep up momentum on relief effort

14 July 2005
Former United States President Bill Clinton, the United Nations Special Envoy overseeing recovery efforts from last December's devastating Indian Ocean tsunami, today urged the UN and its partners to maintain momentum for what may by the most difficult phase, declaring that the world body was "the glue that holds international cooperation together."
Tsunami wreckage

Annan issues report on strengthening global, regional response in tsunami's wake

13 July 2005
Ahead of tomorrow's address to the Economic and Social Council by former United States President Bill Clinton, United Nations Special Envoy overseeing recovery efforts from December's devastating Indian Ocean tsunami, Secretary-General Kofi Annan has issued his recommendations on how national, global and regional responses to natural disasters can be improved.

UN suspends food shipments to Somali tsunami victims after ship is hijacked

5 July 2005
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has suspended all shipments of humanitarian assistance to Somalia following the hijacking of a chartered vessel carrying food aid for 28,000 tsunami survivors, the first time in the agency’s history that a ship carrying relief food has been commandeered.