Press releases and statements

(New York: 27 August): John Holmes, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, has expressed serious concern about reports emerging from...

WHAT: A press conference by the United Nations, in support of the Government, on the launch of the "Flash Appeal" for the response to the floods that are currently devastating many parts of the...

The humanitarian situation remains critical for an estimated 250,000 displaced people in the worst flood-affected areas in Balochistan and Sindh provinces, two months after a major cyclone hit...

1. On Tuesday 21 August some 10,000 displaced Congolese crossed the border from Rutshuru area in eastern DRC's north Kivu province into the Ugandan district of Kisoro in southwestern Uganda. While...

(Kampala: 22 August 2007): The Government of Uganda and the United Nations will field two joint teams to assess the impact of severe flooding across large swaths of eastern Uganda. The two teams are...

(Khartoum/New York/Geneva: 20 August 2007): Amid continued devastation caused by floods in the Sudan, John Holmes, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief...

(New York: 20 August): After deploying an emergency team to Peru, in the wake of the earthquake in that country late last Wednesday, and to Jamaica, ahead of Hurricane Dean, the United Nations is...

(New York: 17 August 2007): According to a new analysis by the Food Security Analysis Unit for Somalia (FSAU), the Famine Early Warning Network, and other partners, the Shabelle regions in the south...

(New York: 17 August 2007): The Secretary-General has appointed Abdulaziz bin Mohamed Arrukban of Saudi Arabia as his Special Humanitarian Envoy and tasked him to ensure strengthened linkages between...

(New York: 17 August): A United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination (UNDAC) team was deployed to Peru today, following yesterday's 7.9 magnitude earthquake that has so far destroyed more...