Le Niger se remet d’une crise alimentaire qui a affecté plus de 5,4 millions de personnes en 2012. Le pays a aussi fait face à des inondations ayant touché plus d’un demi-million de personnes, et détruit des champs et des habitations. Le Niger a, en outre, accueilli plus de 50.000 réfugiés ayant fuit la guerre au Nord Mali.
Press releases and statements
Press releases and statements
Niger + 1 more
News and Press ReleaseLes acteurs humanitaires et le Gouvernement du Niger sollicitent 354 millions de dollars pour répondre aux besoins de près de 3 millions de personnes en 2013
Syria
News and Press ReleaseUN responds to urgent needs in Syria’s Idleb province
A UN inter-agency mission delivered a first batch of critical and lifesaving relief items to 6,000 IDPs in Karameh.
South Sudan
News and Press ReleaseSouth Sudan: $56.5 million for aid and emergency preparedness
The funding enables the humanitarian community to respond to humanitarian needs and, at the same time, to preposition aid before the start of the rainy season. Last year, timely supply of life-saving aid to people in urgent need proved difficult as up to 60 per cent of the country became inaccessible due to seasonal flooding and poor roads.
Mozambique
News and Press ReleaseCERF helps flood-affected in Mozambique
(Johannesburg, 11 February 2013): Heavy and persistent rains in January have led to massive flooding in southern Mozambique, killing 105 people and temporarily displacing an estimated 150,000 people...
Colombia
News and Press ReleaseNota Flash: Actualización - afectación por sismo en Nariño, Cauca y Valle de Cauca
Con base en los resultados de una reunión extraordinaria del Consejo Departamental de Gestión de Riesgo y Desastres (CDGRD) de Nariño, que se realizó el 9 de febrero a las 11:30am, en la cual...
DR Congo
News and Press ReleaseUN and humanitarian partners in D.R. Congo launch US$892.6 million action plan for 2013
The plan responds to the growing needs of 3.9 million people across the country including 2.7 million internally displaced, more than half of them in the eastern Kivu provinces. The funding will help provide essential food aid, shelter, protection and water and sanitation programs to prevent life-threatening diseases such as cholera and measles.
DR Congo
News and Press ReleaseR.D.Congo : US$ 893 millions pour répondre à la crise humanitaire
(Kinshasa, le 7 février 2013) : A pied, par bateau, et en avion, à travers des pistes souvent quasi- impraticables, sous la menace des groupes armés, les organisation humanitaires travaillant en...
Somalia
News and Press ReleaseLatest data confirms improvements in Somalia's humanitarian situation
The acting UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia, Stefano Porretti, welcomed the news that the number of people in crisis in Somalia has halved to 1.05 million, but cautioned that gains could be reversed without sustained aid
oPt
News and Press ReleaseStatement by the UN Humanitarian Coordinator James W. Rawley on the IDF use of live fire in the West Bank
Jerusalem, 30 January 2013 "The United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator is seriously concerned by the increased casualties resulting from the use of live ammunition by Israeli forces in the occupied...
Syria + 1 more
News and Press ReleaseUnder-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Address to the Pledging Conference on Syria [EN/AR]
I join the Secretary-General in thanking the Emir of Kuwait for hosting this important conference and for announcing their generous contribution of US$300 million. In my presentation I will address...