Regarding food relief dispatched to drought affected areas of Somali Region in 2005, the DPPA has transported ten percent of the fifth round of relief food allocation while dispatches are nearly...
Press releases and statements
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Press releases and statements
Somalia
News and Press ReleaseUpdate on relief food dispatches to Somali region
Lebanon + 1 more
News and Press ReleaseOCHA Media Factsheet on Lebanon - 22 Aug 2006
1,183 dead and 4,055 wounded (Lebanese Higher Relief Council (HRC)) Approximately 140,000 returnees from Syria (Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and Governor of...
Lebanon + 2 more
News and Press ReleaseOCHA Media Factsheet on Lebanon - 21 Aug 2006
1,183 dead and 4,054 wounded (according to Lebanon's Higher Relief Council (HRC)) Approximately 140,000 returnees from Syria (Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and...
Peru
News and Press ReleaseUnited Nations finalizing Flash Appeal for Peru
(New York: 20 August 2007): As the United Nations (UN) system finalizes a Flash Appeal for the earthquake stricken parts of Peru, UN inter-agency teams are assessing the situation in the affected...
Lebanon
News and Press ReleaseOCHA Media Factsheet on Lebanon - 18 Aug 2006
Population Returns - 1,183 dead and 4,054 wounded (according to Lebanon's Higher Relief Council (HRC)) - 262,174 displaced, down from nearly one million one week ago (HRC) - 107,000 returnees from...
Burkina Faso + 11 more
News and Press ReleaseUN allocates additional $43 million for under-funded emergencies from global emergency fund
(New York: 18 August 2006): The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has made a second round of allocations totalling $43 million for chronically underfunded...
Ethiopia
News and Press ReleaseUnited Nations responding to Ethiopian floods
(New York: 17 August 2006): The United Nations is responding to needs arising from recent floods in South Omo Valley in Ethiopia. The Government's Disaster Prevention and Preparedness Agency (DPPA)...
North Macedonia
News and Press ReleaseFormer Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia seeks aid after floods
(New York: 17 August 2006): The Government of The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia has requested international support to assist people affected by recent floods and mudflows in that country. In...
Ethiopia
News and Press ReleaseUN says federal response to diarrhoea outbreak in Ethiopia needed
(New York: 17 August 2006): More than 130 people have died and 11,000 been diagnosed with acute watery diarrhoea in Ethiopia over the past three months. The first outbreak of acute watery diarrhoea...
Lebanon + 1 more
News and Press ReleaseOCHA Media Factsheet on Lebanon - 17 Aug 2006
Population Returns Thousands of displaced Lebanese continue to return to their home areas. The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) estimates that 6,000 people are headed back toward the worst-hit...