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Humanitarian challenges

MSF 'Top Ten' under-reported humanitarian stories of 1999

MSF issues the "Top Ten" list of the year's most under-reported humanitarian stories. This second annual listing emphasizes forgotten wars in Angola, Burundi and Sri Lanka. Project Update - 15 Dec 1999

Timor-Leste

Restricted access to camps and slow returns

The number of returnees to East Timor is still considered to be low, according to OCHA. So far, close to 115,000 people have returned through both organised and spontaneous methods. Figures released by the Indonesian Government indicate there are another 140,000 internal refugees within West Timor and other parts of Indonesia. Project Update - 10 Dec 1999

Global

The Nobel Peace Prize speech

The Nobel Peace Prize speech, delivered by Dr James Orbinski, President of the MSF International Council, in Oslo, Norway on 10 December 1999. Speech - 10 Dec 1999

Sierra Leone

MSF workers held in Sierra Leone

Two volunteers of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) are being held by RUF rebels in Sierra Leone. A doctor and a logistician of MSF, who have been opening a health project in the district of Kailahun, have been held for 48 hours by RUF authorities controlling the region. The two volunteers, with whom there has been some contact in the last two days, are Belgian and German nationals. Press Release - 9 Dec 1999

South Sudan

Fight against deadly sleeping sickness in southern Sudan

Project Update - 7 Dec 1999

Mongolia

MSF launches Safe Sex campaign in Mongolia

Press Release - 1 Dec 1999

Mongolia

AIDS prevention in Mongolia

After the break-up of the Soviet Union the transition process to a new social and economic order in the successor states, was accompanied by severe economic and social hardship. Nowadays, vulnerable groups are still left without social or medical assistance. In addition, epidemics in combination with a deteriorating health-care system, have made infectious diseases another focus of attention. The break-up of the Soviet Union also influenced the neighbouring countries. Project Update - 1 Dec 1999

India

MSF remains active along coastal region

Over one million homes have been destroyed by one of the worst cyclones in history when the Orissa province, in India, was struck on October 29. Yearly harvests have been washed away and hundreds of thousands of cattle have died during the cyclone or in the massive floods afterwards. The complete tally for the destruction caused by the cyclone has not been calculated, but the death toll has now exceeded 10,000 people. Project Update - 22 Nov 1999

Burundi

MSF suspends activities in Burundi regroupment camps

Médecins Sans Frontière (MSF) has suspended its intervention at the regroupment camps in the rural province of Bujumbura, Burundi. Following the increased insecurity in and around Bujumbura, the population of the province has been regrouped into some 50 camps around the capital. Approximately 300,000 people - nearly two thirds of the population of the province - are living in these sites. Press Release - 18 Nov 1999

Vietnam

Floods in Vietnam decimate

Vietnam has been suffering the effects of the worst rainstorm to hit the country in forty years. Storm Number 9, better known as Eve, began with torrential rainstorms on October 18, and continued without respite, until November 4. On November 12, here was been an international appeal for assistance to overcome drastic food shortages and repair and replace housing and infrastructures in the devastated central provinces. Project Update - 16 Nov 1999

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