by Sean Reilly | Sep 6, 2008
The United Nations is warning that more than half a million people are in need of emergency assistance after storms Fay, Gustav and Hanna battered the island of Haiti. Over 500 people are now known to have been killed in floods and landslides in Haiti caused by...
by Sean Reilly | May 14, 2008
Chinese churches and Christian agencies, as well as the government and army, have begun responding to the recent earthquake. The quake, measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale, has devastated a region west of the provincial capital Chengdu. Latest figures coming out of...
by Sean Reilly | May 11, 2008
Burmese cyclone survivors face a massive crisis unless they are urgently delivered aid, leading aid agencies have warned – while Prime Minister Gordon Brown called on Burma’s generals to ease restrictions on outside assistance. A likely death toll of...
by Sean Reilly | May 10, 2008
Burma’s military regime is distributing international aid today. But it is covering the boxes with the names of top generals in an effort to turn the relief effort for last week’s devastating cyclone into a propaganda exercise, say news agencies. The...
by Sean Reilly | May 8, 2008
Teams from UK Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) member agencies, together with flights of emergency relief items, are now arriving in Burma and reaching those people most affected by Cyclone Nargis. More aid is desperately needed and the DEC is calling on people to...
