Press releases and statements

Cairo, 18 March 2014 - The League of Arab States, the Government of Yemen and representatives of the Humanitarian Country Team in Yemen met yesterday in Cairo for a regional presentation of the Yemen...

Some 14.7 million people in Yemen are in need of some form of humanitarian assistance in 2014. In 2013, only 53 per cent of the humanitarian requirement was met.

(New York, 15 March 2014): Three years after the start of Syria’s conflict, we estimate that more than 9 million people need aid and protection inside Syria and another 2.5 million have fled the...

Bangui, 10 March, 2014: The Humanitarian Coordinator a.i in the Central African Republic Ms Barbara Shenstone condemns in the strongest terms the killing, on 8 March in Ndele, of a staff member of...

On 7 March 2014, the Emergency Relief Coordinator approved a US$6 million rapid response grant from CERF for urgent humanitarian aid for South Sudanese refugees and host communities in Ethiopia. UN...

Jerusalem, 5 March 2014 Today, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) released new information relating to affected...

Transit sites in the capital N'Djamena and in southern Chad are overcrowded and basic services inadequate. Conditions are dire, with little or no drinking water, overflowing latrines, and risks of outbreaks of cholera, says UN.

(N’Djamena, 4 mars 2014) : Des dizaines de milliers de personnes qui ont fui les violences en République centrafricaine (RCA) vers le Tchad sont dans un besoin urgent d'assistance humanitaire. « Ces...

(New York, 27 February 2014) I am deeply concerned by the grave humanitarian situation in South Sudan, where, despite the recent ceasefire agreement, the lives of millions of civilians are threatened...