Press releases and statements

New York, 30 October 2018 As delivered Mr. President, Thank you for the opportunity to brief the Security Council on the challenging humanitarian situation in eastern Ukraine. Five months ago, I...

While the situation continues to deteriorate, the funds have provided 7 million people with food, and 7.4 million people with access to clean water, sanitation and basic hygiene support.

Sana’a, 25 October 2018 – On 24 October, at least 21 civilians were killed and 10 injured when strikes hit a vegetable packaging facility in Al-Masoudi in Bayt Al-Faqih District. In a separate...

Recent insecurity has forced tens of thousands of people to flee for safety, and caused many humanitarian organizations to suspend or limit their activities.

While efforts are underway to bring the crisis in the North-East to an end, these attacks, if unchecked, may reverse the gains made so far in securing lives and property in the region.

Khartoum, 16 October 2018. The Commissioner Hamad Elgizouli Morowa from the Commission for Refugees (CoR), Deputy Commissioner Dr. Mohammed Al-Sinari from the Humanitarian Aid Commission (HAC), the...

The funds will allow NGOs and UN agencies to implement a multi-sectoral response bolstering efforts to promote food security, health, shelter, drinking water, sanitation and agriculture.

"Sustained humanitarian assistance is needed. There is a lot of hope and opportunity in Marawi, and we need to keep those hopes alive.” Deputy Humanitarian Chief said.

Despite a productive agricultural season, unmet humanitarian funding targets are poised to impact more than 17 million Ethiopians still in need of humanitarian assistance.

(N’Djamena, 7 October 2018): The United Nations Development Programme Administrator, Achim Steiner, and the United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mark Lowcock, today wrapped up their first...