Press releases and statements

Extract Over the past year, the Somali people have continuously been caught in the middle of the on-going conflict. I applaud the spirit of the people who have assisted each other in these times of...

(New York, 1 November 2007): The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has dispatched a six-member United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination team (UNDAC)...

(New York, 31 October 2007): Agencies monitoring the situation in and around Mogadishu have found that, from 27 to 29 of October, up to a further 88,000 Somalis have fled, of whom some 17,000 have...

Kinshasa / Goma, 31 October, 2007 - North Kivu: Almost 176,000 people have been forced to flee their homes since September when fighting resumed between government troops and those loyal to dissident...

Kinshasa et Goma, le 31 octobre 2007 - Nord-Kivu : Près de 176 000 personnes ont été contraintes de quitter leurs foyers depuis la reprise des combats entre les troupes gouvernementales et celles du...

HIGHLIGHTS IN THIS ISSUE: - HRF: INNOVATIONS IN HUMANITARIAN FINANCING - REGIONAL OVERVIEW - UPCOMING & ONGOING MEETINGS Focus on Ethiopia is produced by UN Office for the Coordination of...

(South Omo, Ethiopia, 30 October 2007): Pastoralists in Ethiopia's Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region are preparing for five days of debate and celebration in one of Ethiopia's most...

(New York: 29 October 2007): "I am alarmed about the reports of forced relocation last night from Otash camp in Nyala, South Darfur, both about the manner in which the relocations were apparently...

October 26, 2007, Panama City - Today at the Global Symposium on Humanitarian Information in Geneva, OCHA announced the launch of a Regional Humanitarian Network for humanitarian actors and...

26 de octubre del 2007, Ciudad de Panamá OCHA anunció hoy durante el Simposio Mundial sobre Manejo de Información Humanitaria en Ginebra el lanzamiento de una Red Regional Humanitaria. Los socios...