Letters: Tragedy in Burma can be avoided

                   
guardian.co.uk     12-May-2008            

Letters: The American and French push to deliver humanitarian aid to Burma is a position the UN has an obligation to support ... Tragedy in Burma can be avoided The American and French push to deliver humanitarian aid to Burma is a position the UN has an obligation to... [read full story]                    

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Despite complex challenges DEC member agencies continue to deliver aid to thousands throughout...

actionaid.org.uk     10-May-2008          

DEC member agencies continue to deliver aid to the thousands of people who lives have been torn apart by Cyclone Nargis. ... DEC member agencies continue to deliver aid to the thousands of people who lives have been torn apart by Cyclone Nagris. Matthias Schmale,...                    

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Aid workers on cyclone Nargis - 'From what we knew, we thought there was little to worry about'

guardian.co.uk     11-May-2008          

Two foreign aid workers give their account of events in the days before and after cyclone Nargis struck Burma ... 'From what we knew, we thought there was little to worry about' We'd been monitoring cyclone Nargis from the beginning. Two weeks ago, we could see it had...                    

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Come to Burma's aid

scotsman.com     11-May-2008          

SOMETIMES we don't know how lucky we are that our news and political discourse can be dominated by something like the timing of a Scottish independence referendum. It may ... be crucial to our constitutional future, but the debate seems a luxury compared with the...                    

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UK & World News: Prayers for Burma victims

icnetwork.co.uk     11-May-2008          

Prayers will be said across the UK for the thousands of people displaced in the Burmese cyclone crisis, as aid agencies face a desperate bid to get supplies and volunteers to the survivors. ... More than a week after Cyclone Nargis brought death and destruction to the...                    

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Prayers for Burma victims

icnetwork.co.uk     11-May-2008          

Prayers will be said across the UK for the thousands of people displaced in the Burmese cyclone crisis, as aid agencies face a desperate bid to get supplies and volunteers to the survivors. ... More than a week after Cyclone Nargis brought death and destruction to the...                    

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Prayers for Burma victims

gazettelive.co.uk     11-May-2008          

Prayers will be said across the UK for the thousands of people displaced in the Burmese cyclone crisis, as aid agencies face a desperate bid to get supplies and volunteers to the survivors. ... More than a week after Cyclone Nargis brought death and destruction to the...                    

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"Unimaginable tragedy" if Myanmar delays aid

mirror.co.uk     11-May-2008          

Desperate survivors of Cyclone Nargis poured out of Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta on Sunday in search of food, water and medicine as aid groups said thousands more people will die if emergency supplies do not get through soon. ... The reclusive military government is...                    

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Myanmar counts votes while people await relief

euronews.net     11-May-2008          

While many people in Myanmar are struggling to survive after Cyclone Nargis counting is underway in the country's referendum on a new constitution. ... The ruling generals have appeared on state television, distributing aid and being clapped by crowds of children in what...                    

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AFTER CYCLONE NARGIS : Survivors face "unimaginable tragedy" if Myanmar delays aid

eitb24.com     11-May-2008          

The military government is accepting aid from the outside world but has made it very clear it will not let in the foreign logistics teams needed to transport the aid as fast as possible into the inundated delta. ... Desperate survivors of Cyclone Nargis poured out of...                    

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Brown condemns generals' Burma relief inaction

ekklesia.co.uk     11-May-2008          

Burmese cyclone survivors face a massive crisis unless they are urgently delivered aid, leading aid agencies have warned - while Prime Minister Gordon Brown called on Burma's generals to ease restrictions on outside assistance. ... The International Rescue Committee said...                    

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