Press releases and statements

(N'Djamena, Chad; Geneva: 11 May 2007): The United Nations today launched a $23 million supplementary appeal to support enhanced assistance for internally displaced persons in eastern Chad over the...

(New York: 11 May 2007): The United Nations is mobilizing a United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination (UNDAC) team for deployment to Uruguay early next week in the wake of the worst floods...

(New York: 10 May 2007): With the worst flooding in 50 years having driven some 12,000 people from their homes and affected more than 110,000 people overall, the United Nations Office for the...

Central and East Africa: United Nations Humanitarian Chief to Visit Uganda John Holmes, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, is expected...

HIGHLIGHTS IN THIS ISSUE: REGIONAL OVERVIEW NEWS - AWD UPDATE & A SURVEY RESULT IN BONA WOREDA, SIDAMA ZONE, SNNPR UPCOMING & ONGOING MEETINGS Focus on Ethiopia is produced by UN Office for the...

New York: 4 May 2007 - The United Nations agencies and their partners working in Somalia have reached 250,000 of the nearly 400,000 people displaced from over the last three months with assistance as...

UNMIL PR 49 Monrovia, Liberia - The Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) for Liberia, Mr. Alan Doss, has opened the first in a series of six workshops intended to strengthen the...

I am deeply concerned about the effects and consequences that the ongoing fighting in Mogadishu is having on an already appalling humanitarian situation in Somalia. The scale of the fighting during...

(New York: 27 April 2007): Some 365,000 Somalis - more than one third of the city's population - had fled the latest round of insecurity and violence in Mogadishu by Friday, as the capital's...

by John Holmes, first published by The Independent Three years ago this April, my predecessor first brought Darfur to the attention of the United Nations Security Council. And now this April, I too...