Press releases and statements

(New York: 28 March 2007): United Nations relief agencies are responding to the needs arising from the bursting of a sewage reservoir in an emergency filtration basin at the waste water treatment...

(N'Djamena and New York: 28 March 2007): United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes arrived this afternoon in the Chadian capital of...

(Abéché [Chad] and New York: 27 March 2007): United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes arrived in the town of Abéché in eastern Chad...

Dawn Blalock: Thank you all for coming today. We are pleased to have here today John Holmes, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator. This...

(New York: 26 March 2007) - United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes completed his five-day mission to Sudan today, returning from...

Government Authorities Assure Access During Remainder Of Trip (New York: 24 March 2007): United Nations Under-Secretary-General John Holmes arrived today in El Fasher, capital of North Darfur...

(Juba and New York: 23 March 2007) United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes today travelled to Juba, Southern Sudan, on the second...

Dakar, 23 mars 2007 : Une épidémie de méningite sévit au Burkina Faso alors que 8 autres pays d'Afrique de l'ouest sont touchés à divers degrés par cette maladie très contagieuse. 8 557 cas dont 798...

(Dakar and New York: 23 March 2007): A meningitis epidemic has erupted in Burkina Faso, while eight other West African countries have been affected by the highly contagious disease to varying...

(Juba: 21 March 2007): United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes is scheduled to visit Juba this Friday, as part of a two-week...