Press releases and statements

(New York, 15 April 2008): At a briefing convened today by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) to update all Member States on the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF),...

Nairobi, 11 April (OCHA Kenya) - The humanitarian community in Kenya will present a 189-million-US-dollar revised appeal Monday for drought victims and the hundreds of thousands of people still...

Jerusalem, 15th April 2008 - United Nations humanitarian and development agencies working in the occupied Palestinian territory(1) are gravely concerned about the limited fuel supplies in the Gaza...

(New York / Geneva / N'Djamena: 14 April 2008): Over three months into 2008, this year's Humanitarian Appeal for Chad, launched last December in the context of the Consolidated Appeals Process (CAP),...

(New York, 11 April 2008): According to the Food Security Analysis Unit (FSAU) and Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET), the humanitarian situation in Somalia is deteriorating faster than...

(New York, 11 April 2008): The Ethiopian government and its humanitarian partners yesterday announced that a total of $67,737,459 is required to fund the country's humanitarian response to the...

(Doha, Dubai, New York, Geneva, 10 April 2008) - John Holmes, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator called upon Gulf States to work with the...

(Kuwait/Dubai/New York/Geneva, 9 April 2008): John Holmes, the UN humanitarian chief, today welcomed Kuwait's pledge to increase support to multilateral humanitarian efforts to tackle major crises...

(Dubai/New York/Geneva, 8 April 2008): John Holmes, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, commended Gulf States for their support of...

(Abu Dhabi, Dubai, New York, Geneva, 7 April 2008) - John Holmes, United Nations Under-Secretary- General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, was today in Abu Dhabi in the...