Full Coverage: Emergency relief

30.01.2006 Victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita remain hopeful that they will land on their feet again, even as some support groups warn of a "new wave of displaced people" when a February deadline for ending the hotel housing program hits.

27.01.2006 Portland might not be known for its jazz, but that hasn't stopped it from becoming a second home for some of New Orleans best known musicians displaced by Hurricane Katrina. From airline tickets to donated instruments, a local nonprofit has joined forces with Mercy Corps to provide Big Easy musicians a place to live, play, and earn a paycheck doing what they love best.

27.01.2006 Ever since the first news arrived on the horrible tragedy that fell on Montenegro at the beginning of this week, enterprises, institutions, political parties, individual citizens made unselfish contributions to assist the families of the killed and injured.

25.01.2006 Macedonian President Branko Crvenkovski and the Prime Minister Vlado Buckovski sent telegrams with condolences to their counterparts in Montenegro. In the telegrams, they expressed their condolences to the families of the casualties and the public of Montenegro.

25.01.2006 A thorough assessment of nutritional levels in Madagascar's drought-stricken southeast has revealed that not as many people as previously thought are suffering from life-threatening malnutrition, according to U.N. agencies, but the situation is still quite "fragile" and the front-line responders remain short on funds.

25.01.2006 OWPSEE’s Dejan Milovac visited the site of the terrible railway accident, at Bioce near Podgorica, in which 45 people were killed and over 200 injured.

25.01.2006 New analysis reportedly shows important lessons can be learned from the differing responses of Indonesia and Sri Lanka to conflict and "un-natural" disasters.

24.01.2006 Despite record emergency funding last year, the UN Children's Fund says it needs $805 million to assist children and women in 29 humanitarian emergencies. More than one-third of the money is wanted for Sudan.

24.01.2006 The most tragic railway accident in the history of Montenegro happened yesterday at 16:03 hours, when the local diesel-electric train 6103, travelling from Bijelo Polje to Podgorica, derailed near Bioce while exiting a tunnel, with all four cars falling into a ravine. According to latest official data, at least 44 passengers lost their lives, five of them children, with over 200 injured.

22.01.2006 UNICEF is working with local organisations in quake-hit regions of Pakistan and is sending female healthcare teams to rural areas to meet the healthcare needs of the people. These healthcare teams have been specially trained in Islamabad.

20.01.2006 Winter relief operations in northern Pakistan have been hampered by bad weather - snow, ice and landslides - which pose a challenge to army and NGOs. The October earthquake had killed 86,000 and left more than 3 million homeless, who now have to be provided drugs and shelter supplies.

19.01.2006 Over 30 deaths have been reported in Northern Kenya, as drought intensifies. The actual number may be a lot higher.

18.01.2006 International experts agree that disaster risk reduction is not sufficiently prioritised by the world’s governments, a meeting on disasters will be told in London today.

18.01.2006 After being grounded for three days, the UN on Wednesday resumed airborne relief operation in Pakistan's earthquake-hit areas where people are braving a cold snap in the harsh Himalayan winter.

18.01.2006 Heavy rain is hampering food distribution in southern Malawi for more than 70,000 people at risk from hunger because of drought.

15.01.2006 A humanitarian catastrophe could engulf the drought-stricken Horn of Africa unless the World Food Programme receives urgent donations to provide emergency food aid for an estimated 5.4 million people, the agency warned ahead of the African Union summit in Khartoum this month.

12.01.2006 The high death toll in 2005 from tsunamis, hurricanes, typhoons, mudslides, earthquakes, volcanoes, locusts and pandemics can not be blamed entirely on natural disaster, the United Nations health agency said in a year end statement. Human activities such as deforestation and emission of greenhouse gases also play a part.

12.01.2006 The immense human toll caused by conflicts in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, Chechnya, and northeast India are among the "Top Ten" Most Underreported Humanitarian Stories of 2005, according to the year-end list released by an international humanitarian medical aid organisation.

11.01.2006 Whether it's deforestation, the straightening of rivers, choices about where to live or a host of other factors, human activities are putting lives and property at greater risk than ever before, says the World Health Organization.

11.01.2006 After a year of disasters, Christian Aid’s international director, Paul Valentin, counts the cost of the world’s failure to recognise that prevention is better than cure.