Mission & Justice (Free subscription) | yesterday
Kenneth Denby; 16/5/08 The Burmese authorities have sealed off the cyclone disaster zone from the outside world, expelling foreign aid workers and placing multiple checkpoints along roads into the Irrawaddy Delta, to the despair of foreign diplomats and aid workers. The isolation of the delta confirms the growing sense among international organisations that the Burmese junta [...]
OTB News (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
After concerns that Myanmar authorities improperly took some previous relief supplies, Myanmar is now allowing U.S. government aid workers to give aid directly to private aid groups. Share This
CNN (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
After concerns that Myanmar authorities improperly took some previous relief supplies, Myanmar is now allowing U.S. government aid workers to give aid directly to private aid groups.
CNN (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
After concerns that Myanmar authorities improperly took some previous relief supplies, Myanmar is now allowing U.S. government aid workers to give aid directly to private aid groups.
CNN (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
After concerns that Myanmar authorities improperly took some previous relief supplies, Myanmar is now allowing U.S. government aid workers to give aid directly to private aid groups.
Myanmar (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
YANGON, Myanmar -- Myanmar's military rulers have thrown a tightening ring of security around Yangon, blocking aid workers, foreign diplomats and journalists from reaching cyclone-battered regions whe...
Sci-Tech Today (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
The first international aid official allowed into the cyclone-devastated Irrawaddy delta by Myanmar's military leaders described towns rendered unrecognizable, thousands of survivors without shelter in heavy rains and local volunteers saving lives. Soldiers have barred foreign aid workers from reaching cyclone survivors in the areas hardest hit by Cyclone Nargis, but gave access to an International...
Laglagan (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
The Associated Press: "Police barred foreign aid workers from reaching cyclone survivors in hard-hit areas Tuesday, while emergency food shipments backed up at the main airport for Myanmar's biggest city. Relief workers reported some storm survivors were being given spoiled or poor-quality food rather than nutrition-rich biscuits sent by international donors, adding to fears that the...
Get Mash (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
BANGKOK, May 14 — Burmese military authorities have agreed to let 160 aid workers from four Asian countries assist its struggling cyclone relief effort, aid officials said Wednesday, the government's first acknowledgment that it needs foreign expertise. Read the full story
Myanmar (Free subscription) | yesterday
International aid groups have sent hundreds of tons of emergency supplies to Burma's cyclone victims, but local aid workers say no aid is reaching huge numbers of homeless in the Irrawaddy delta, 13 d...
ABS CBN (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
A small flick went from refugee camp to red carpet Friday as Sean Penn, backed by rock star Bono and film-maker Michael Moore, brought an Australian aid worker's tsunami film to the Cannes fest.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Paris - A French warship carrying 1,000 tons of aid for cyclone victims in Myanmar is off the south coast of the devastated Irrawaddy delta, the French Defence Ministry said in Paris Saturday. Negotiations were under way with the authorities in Myanm...
Global Security (Free subscription) | yesterday
CHAD: Aid groups face dilemma over EU protectionDAKAR, 16 May 2008 (IRIN) - Faced with frequent armed robberies, many aid groups in eastern Chad say the European Union Force (EUFOR), deployed there since February, is not doing its job of protecting them. At the same time, many of those same aid groups say they do not want to jeopardise their neutrality by being associated with the armed force. “There...
All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
Faced with frequent armed robberies, many aid groups in eastern Chad say the European Union Force (EUFOR), deployed there since February, is not doing its job of protecting them.
Alertnet (Free subscription) | yesterday
Source: IRIN Faced with frequent armed robberies, many aid groups in eastern Chad say the European Union Force (EUFOR), deployed there since February, is not doing its job of protecting them. At the same time, many of those same aid groups say they do not want to jeopardise their neutrality by being associated with the armed force.
