News UN population fund distributing emergency home delivery kits in East Timor. About 60 per cent of home deliveries are not attended by trained health personnel.
Women often die due to lack of transport to clinics.
The arrests were the first in a camp since the refugee influx began following the 30 August popular consultation in East Timor. Only 25 refugees repatriated from Noelbaki today. The camp hosts 7,000 refugees, half of whom have expressed a willingness to return home. They said one bus transporting refugees was stoned by militias as it left Soe, but no injuries were reported. The four-month rainy season allows most Timorese to plant food crops they depend on for the rest of the year.