Press releases and statements

WHO: Mark Lowcock, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator WHAT: Co-hosting the international conference on Ending Sexual and Gender-based Violence in...

Tripoli, 20 May 2019 On 19 May 2019, during late night hours, a water control station in the Jabal al-Hasawna – southwestern Libya, was deliberately shut down cutting off water supply from the Great...

The number of people in crisis and emergency levels of food insecurity or worse is expected to reach 2.2 million by July, if aid is not scaled up. This is more than 40% higher than in January.

Bria, 17 Mai 2019 – Denise Brown, la Coordonnatrice Humanitaire pour la Centrafrique a alloué 20 millions de dollars du Fond Humanitaire de la République Centrafricaine (FH RCA) pour financer 61...

Bria, 17 May 2019 – The Humanitarian Coordinator for Central African Republic (CAR), Denise Brown has allocated US$20 million from the CAR Humanitarian Fund (CAR HF) for 61 projects to respond to...

Sana’a, 16 May 2019 – Today, several people were killed, and dozens injured when strikes hit Sana’a City. Preliminary reports indicate that five children have died and 16 more are wounded; additional...

Maiduguri, 14 May 2019 – Some of Nigeria’s most influential and powerful business leaders travelled to Maiduguri on Tuesday in a first-ever collective visit to camps for internally displaced people...

The UN deputy humanitarian chief traveled to Rakhine State, where over 700,000 people need assistance, including 128,000 Rohingya and Kaman IDPs who remain confined in camps.

The crisis in the North-West and South-West regions has rapidly deteriorated. Today, more than 1.3 million people, or at least eight times as many as in 2018, need humanitarian assistance.

(N'djamena, le 10 mai 2019): Le Sous-secrétaire général des Nations Unies chargé des affaires humanitaire et Coordonnateur des secours d’urgence, M. Mark Lowcock a validé l’octroi au Tchad de 11...