In Sri Lanka, UNHCR has completed its post-tsunami role as the coordinator of a nationwide transitional shelter effort after the target of more than 58,000 shelters built by over 100 NGOs was reached.

SEENIGAMA, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - When Kushil Gunasekera returned to Seenigama in Sri Lanka's Galle district days after it was wiped out by a massive tsunami on Dec. 26, 2004, he got to work. Houses ...

Estimates of those killed by Sunday's devastating tsunami near 80,000 with tens of thousands still missing. Massive clean-up efforts are underway, but the psychological effects have yet to set in for ...

The train disaster became a symbol of the 2004 tsunami disaster in Sri Lanka - Copyright AFP Ishara S. KODIKARA The train disaster became a symbol of the 2004 tsunami ...

Sri Lankan native Ananda Srilal “Lal” Liyanapathiranage never stopped finding ways to help people in his home country. After a tsunami killed tens of thousands in Indian Ocean coastal communities in ...

KURUKKAL MADAM, Sri Lanka — Pulled from the mud as an infant after the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004, and reunited with his parents following an emotional court battle, the boy once known ...

At this time last year, most of us didn't know much about tsunamis. But that changed on Dec. 26, 2004, when a devastating tsunami ravaged most of the coast from Southeast Asia to East Africa, killing ...

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. 22 November 2005 In Sri Lanka, UNHCR ...