The Emergency Relief Coordinator a.i., Ms. Carolyn McAskie, expressed her grave concern over the dire humanitarian situation in Eritrea, which has deteriorated significantly since the outbreak of...
Press releases and statements
Press releases and statements
Eritrea + 1 more
News and Press ReleaseEritrea: Statement by Carolyn McAskie, Emergency Relief Coordinator A.I.
Afghanistan
News and Press ReleaseHunger threatens millions of poor Afghans
Islamabad (Office of the United Nations Co-ordinator for Afghanistan), 9 June 2000 - Millions of Afghans face a serious food crisis due to a severe drought that destroyed almost all the rain-fed...
DR Congo
News and Press ReleaseUN humanitarian agencies express "grave concern" over Kisangani fighting
New York, 9 June 2000 - The chiefs of five United Nations Humanitarian organizations expressed "grave concern" today about the deteriorating situation for civilians in the town of Kisangani in the...
Burundi + 7 more
News and Press ReleaseUnited Nations seeks $377.7 million to save lives in Horn of Africa
Press Release IHA/708 - AFR/239 NEW YORK/GENEVA, 7 June (OCHA) -- The United Nations is appealing for $377.7 million to address the immediate needs of 13.4 million people affected by the drought in...
Romania
News and Press ReleaseFribourg Forum on crisis management to discuss thorny issues, duplication of mandates and obstacles to rapid delivery of humanitarian assistance
Press Release IHA/706 GENEVA, 6 June (OCHA) -- The international ministerial conference on crisis management that the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is convening on 15 and...
Afghanistan
News and Press ReleaseUnited Nations appeals for $67 million for Afghan drought
Islamabad (Office of the United Nations Co-ordinator for Afghanistan), 6 June 2000 - "Afghanistan has been hit hard by every possible catastrophe in the last twenty years--war, earthquakes,...
Afghanistan
News and Press ReleaseAfghan children observe Environment Day in Afghanistan
Islamabad (Office of the United Nations Coordinator for Afghanistan), 5 June 2000 -- To observe Environment Day in Afghanistan, children in Mazar-e-Sharif and Kabul City are planting kenaf seeds made...
Afghanistan
News and Press ReleaseCease-fire commitment for polio immunisation in Afghanistan renewed
Islamabad (Office of the United Nations Co-ordinator for Afghanistan), 2 June 2000 -- In Kabul, the Taleban have renewed their verbal commitment to observe a cease-fire during the second round of...
Afghanistan
News and Press ReleaseUnited Nations Afghanistan deplores killing in Taloqan
Islamabad (Office of the United Nations Co-ordinator for Afghanistan), 25 May 2000 -- The Taliban bombardment of Taloqan on the night of 20 May in the northeastern Afghan province of Takhar has...
DR Congo
News and Press ReleaseLa communauté humanitaire sur la ligne de cessez-le-feu dans le district du Tanganyika en RDC
Kinshasa, le 23 mai 2000 Dans une large hutte qui fait office d'église chaque dimanche, des nattes sont disposées de façon manifestement trop éparse pour contenir le nombre de personnes présentes...