Press releases and statements

(New York, 21 September 2007): On 20 September, a convoy of two World Vision International (WVI) vehicles with eight people on board was ambushed in South Darfur near Bulbul Timisgo, a small village...

MEDIA ADVISORY Kampala, 19 September 2007 - The United Nations and non-governmental organizations, with the support of the Government of Uganda, will launch an appeal for funding to assist those...

(New York, 19 September 2007): In Uganda, the United Nations is distributing aid to those affected by recent severe flooding due to the heaviest rain in 35 years, which has been falling across...

(New York, 19 September 2007): A recent United Nations inter-agency mission to Ethiopia's Somali Regional State observed that humanitarian conditions within the conflict areas have deteriorated...

Accra, 18 September 2007 - Floods in Ghana have affected 260,000 people and killed 20 people in three regions in the northern parts of the country, according to Government. On 11 September, State...

(New York, 18 September): Today, United Nations emergency staff of the United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination (UNDAC) team arrived in Tamale in northern Ghana, where they have...

(New York, 14 September 2007): The United Nations today launched a Flash Appeal to help meet mounting emergency needs in Nicaragua, after category-five Hurricane Felix made landfall on 4 September,...

(New York, 14 September 2007): The entire population of some 12,000 people has now fled from their homes in the area between the towns of Markounda and Silambi, in the north of the Central African...

(New York, 13 September 2007): A series of earthquakes struck Indonesia today, following an initial 8.4 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Sumatra the previous evening. The United Nations (UN)...

(New York, 12 September 2007): Early Thursday morning, a United Nations assessment team will fly to Bengkulu from Aceh with humanitarian supplies, following Wednesday evening's 8.4 magnitude...