The United Nations and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) yesterday completed the delivery of much-needed humanitarian assistance to more than 40,000 displaced people at the remote Rukban...
Press releases and statements
Press releases and statements
Syria
News and Press ReleaseUnited Nations and Syrian Arab Red Crescent complete delivery of assistance to Rukban [EN/AR]
Burkina Faso + 1 more
News and Press ReleaseFacing a humanitarian emergency, 1.2 million people need assistance in Burkina Faso
An Emergency Plan has been launched, appealing for $100 million to provide food, water, shelter, healthcare and protection to 900,000 people hardest-hit by the crisis.
Burkina Faso + 1 more
News and Press ReleaseFace aux urgences humanitaires, 1,2 million de personnes ont besoin d’assistance au Burkina Faso
Ouagadougou, le 14 février : Le Burkina Faso fait face à des urgences humanitaires sans précédent du fait de la persistante de l'insécurité dans les régions du Centre-Nord, de l’Est et du Nord. Alors...
Ukraine
News and Press ReleaseUS$162 million urgently needed as millions in eastern Ukraine struggle to make ends meet [EN/RU/UK]
(Kyiv, 13 February 2019) The United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator Ms. Osnat Lubrani yesterday briefed the UN Member States in New York via a video connection from Kyiv on the...
Ukraine
News and Press ReleaseAssistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator, Ursula Mueller - Statement to the Security Council on the Humanitarian Situation in Ukraine, 12 February 2019
New York, 12 February 2019 As delivered Mr. President, Thank you for the opportunity to brief the Security Council on the humanitarian situation in eastern Ukraine. Civilians continue to pay the...
Yemen
News and Press ReleaseJoint statement on the situation in Yemen (11 February 2019) [EN/AR]
Desperately needed food aid for millions of Yemenis “is at risk of rotting” in a key Red Sea storage facility because conditions are too unsafe to reach it, UN Special Envoy and UN Emergency relief chief said on Monday.
Nigeria
News and Press ReleaseUN Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria Extends Sympathy to Victims of Deadly Fire Outbreak in Camp for Internally Displaced Persons in Borno State
Abuja, 8 February 2019 – The United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, Mr. Edward Kallon, has expressed his sympathy for the thousands of Nigerians affected by a fire outbreak in a camp for...
Yemen
News and Press ReleaseUnder-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mark Lowcock, Statement on the situation in Yemen, 7 February 2019
The UN has been unable to access the Red Sea Mills in Hodeida since September 2018, which houses enough grain to feed 3.7 million people for a month and sits inaccessible.
Syria
News and Press ReleaseUN in Syria and SARC deliver humanitarian assistance to 40,000 people in Rukban [EN/AR]
The joint UN and SARC inter-agency convoy will provide life-saving humanitarian aid to more than 40,000 displaced people at the remote Rukban ‘makeshift’ settlement in south-eastern Syria, on the border with Jordan.
Libya
News and Press ReleaseUN launches plan to address humanitarian needs in Libya in 2019 [EN/AR]
The Response Plan for 2019 reveals that some 823,000 people, including 248,000 children, are in need of some form of a humanitarian assistance, and that half of them are Libyan citizens.