Source: United Nations Country Team in Madagascar
Date: 30 Jan 2009
The following report has been prepared by the OCHA support mission to the Office of the Resident Coordinator in Madagascar in collaboration with the UN Country Team.
SITUATION
The current political volatility in Madagascar has resulted in massive street protests, violence and looting. In Antananarivo significant material [...]
Entries from January 2009
January 31, 2009
Political crisis and humanitarian situation in Madagascar
January 30, 2009
Sri Lanka pledges safe passage for civilians
Source: Reuters Foundation
Date: 29 Jan 2009
By C. Bryson Hull COLOMBO, Jan 29 (Reuters) -
Sri Lanka’s president on Thursday pledged safe passage for thousands of people trapped by fighting with Tamil Tiger rebels, hours after a convoy carrying more than 200 seriously wounded people left the war zone. Amid rising international outcry over the fate of [...]
January 29, 2009
Samy Vellu perlu hormati kedaulatan undang-undang
HISHAMUDDIN BELASAH SAMY VELLU
saiful.hasam@utusan.com.my
KUALA LUMPUR 28 Jan. – Pergerakan Pemuda UMNO membidas Presiden MIC, Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu dan dua Timbalan Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri, Datuk K. Devamany dan Senator T. Murugiah kerana cuba meletakkan kedudukan mereka melebihi undang-undang negara. Ketua Pemuda UMNO, Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein berkata, mereka bertiga tidak sepatutnya [...]
January 28, 2009
THE GREAT ARAB BETRAYAL THAT STINKS
By Dr. ABBAS BAKHTIAR
Betrayal is the only truth that sticks – Arthur Miller
The Arab Collaborators
The often asked question, when it comes to the Palestinians, is about the role of Arab countries in the Palestinian struggle for freedom. The people not familiar with the political landscape of the area often see the Middle East as [...]
January 28, 2009
23 proofs of Israel’s defeat in the 23-day war
Israel began its Operation Cast Lead against Hamas in the Gaza Strip on December 27, 2008, an almost three-week long bloodbath which killed or wounded thousands of civilians.
Taking into consideration the lessons the regime learned from its defeat in the summer 2006 war against the Lebanese Hezbollah, Tel Aviv avoided setting out any specific [...]
January 28, 2009
Laporan Misi GPM ke Gaza – 28 Januari 2009
Salam
Sdr sekalian
Dr. Hyzan Mohd Yusof, pakar otopedik dan salah seorang sukarelawan dari Misi Pertama GPM ke Gaza telahpun selamat pulang ke tanahair pada hari Sabtu 24 Januari 2009, jam 10.00 malam setelah berada di sana selama seminggu.
Beliau melaporkan bahawa amat sukar untuk mendapat izin masuk ke Gaza. Pintu masuk ke Gaza melalui Rafah di kawal [...]
January 28, 2009
Iran says ship full of humanitarian supplies turned away by Israel Navy off coast of Gaza
LET HUMANITARIAN SUPPLIES TO GAZA
By Anshel Pfeffer, Haaretz Correspondent
The Israel Navy on Tuesday turned away an Iranian ship that was attempting to dock in Gaza in order to deliver humanitarian supplies to the residents of the coastal territory, Iranian radio reported.
Iran radio said that the ship departed from Iran 13 days ago carrying 200 [...]
January 28, 2009
Israeli soldier killed, three wounded near Gaza border
JERUSALEM, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) — An Israeli soldier was killed on Tuesday morning in a blast at the border with the Gaza Strip, triggering the first notable outbreak of violence since a fragile ceasefire went into effect nine days ago.
Three other soldiers were wounded, one in serious conditions, when an explosive device went off near [...]
January 27, 2009
Thousands displaced by quake in Xinjiang, China
BEIJING, Jan 26 (Reuters) – Thousands of people have been made homeless by an earthquake on Sunday in remote Qapqal, in China’s far western region of Xinjiang near the Kazakh border, the Xinhua news agency said on Monday.
The earthquake, which measured 5.0 on the Richter scale, hit an area inhabited by the Xibe people, a [...]
January 26, 2009
Heavy snowfall on Ras Al Khaimah’s Jebel Jais mountain cluster
By Nasouh Nazzal, Staff Reporter
Ras Al Khaimah: Snow fell heavily on the mountains of Ras Al Khaimah on Friday night, leaving the Jebel Jais range covered in a thick white blanket of snow.
The extreme cold spell brought the temperature on top of the Jebel Jais mountain cluster, situated at a height of 5,700 feet, to [...]
