UN in dark about Myanmar cyclone disaster needs
The United Nations said Friday that severe restrictions by Myanmar's military junta have left aid agencies largely in the dark about the extent of survivors' suffering, two weeks after a killer cyclone left up to 2.5 million people destitute. Nations:[Myanmar] Activities:[2008 Myanmar Cyclone] 2008-05-16 Myanmar junta warns people not to hoard aid
Myanmar's junta warned Thursday that legal action would be taken against people who trade or hoard international aid in the aftermath of this month's devastating cyclone. Activities:[2008 Myanmar Cyclone] 2008-05-15 UN warns of 'second catastrophe' in Myanmar
The United Nations warned Tuesday that Myanmar faced a "second catastrophe" after its devastating cyclone, unless the junta immediately allows massive air and sea deliveries of aid. People:[Ban Ki-moon][Condoleezza Rice] Activities:[2008 Myanmar Cyclone] 2008-05-13 U.S. flight lands in Myanmar as aid trickles in
The first U.S. military aid flight to Myanmar landed in Yangon on Monday but emergency supplies remained at a trickle for 1.5 million people facing hunger and disease in the cyclone-ravaged Irrawaddy delta. Nations:[Myanmar] People:[Ban Ki-moon][Gordon Brown][George W. Bush] Activities:[2008 Myanmar Cyclone] 2008-05-12 US airlifts aid to Myanmar, UN urges junta to cooperate
The United States delivered its first relief supplies to Myanmar on Monday, as the U.N. urged the reclusive nation to open its doors to foreign experts who can help up to 2 million cyclone victims facing disease and starvation. Nations:[U.S.] Activities:[2008 Myanmar Cyclone] 2008-05-12 Boat carrying Myanmar aid sinks
A Red Cross boat carrying rice and drinking water for cyclone victims sank Sunday, while the death toll jumped to more than 28,000 and aid groups warned of a humanitarian catastrophe. Activities:[2008 Myanmar Cyclone] 2008-05-11 Myanmar junta hands out aid boxes with generals' names
Myanmar's military regime distributed international aid Saturday but plastered the boxes with the names of top generals in an apparent effort to turn the relief effort for last week's devastating cyclone into a propaganda exercise. Nations:[Cambodia] Activities:[2008 Myanmar Cyclone] 2008-05-10 Myanmar aid logjam riles donors
In Burma's spiraling humanitarian crisis, the international community faces a uniquely confounding scenario: how to overcome the military government's foot-dragging response. Activities:[2008 Myanmar Cyclone] 2008-05-09 Relief falls far short in Myanmar, aid organizers say
No helicopters. Almost no boats. Floods and fallen trees on the roads. Nations:[Denmark] Activities:[2008 Myanmar Cyclone] 2008-05-09 UN halts aid to Myanmar after junta seizes supplies
Myanmar's junta seized U.N. aid shipments Friday meant for a multitude of hungry and homeless survivors of last week's devastating cyclone, forcing the world body to suspend further help. Nations:[United Arab Emirates] Activities:[2008 Myanmar Cyclone] 2008-05-09 1st big foreign aid flights finally let in by Myanmar junta
After snubbing a U.S. aid offer, Myanmar's isolationist regime indicated Friday that it wants foreign relief supplies but not foreign workers to help recover from a devastating cyclone. Nations:[Myanmar] People:[Robert Gates][Ban Ki-moon] Activities:[2008 Myanmar Cyclone][Vietnam War] 2008-05-08 Official: UN plane lands in Myanmar with aid after cyclone
Myanmar's isolationist regime allowed the first plane of a major international airlift to land Thursday with aid for cyclone survivors, a U.N. official said, amid fears that lack of safe food and drinking water could push the death toll above 100,000. Nations:[Myanmar][Laos][Singapore] Activities:[2008 Myanmar Cyclone] 2008-05-08
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