Press releases and statements

Kinshasa, 6 June 2007 - "I reiterate the invitation -- to those of you who are playing a central role in your communities, who have direct and privileged links with all their members, and who have...

Esteemed Ministers, distinguished delegates, ladies and gentlemen. We are here today to offer our leadership and expertise to one of the increasingly urgent - but eminently solvable - challenges we...

(New York: 5 June 2005): More than 4 million people in southern Africa are facing serious food shortages, according to a UN report. The report, issued by the United Nations Food and Agriculture...

(Dakar, Senegal: 31 May 2007): The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Regional Office for West Africa has organized the first workshop in French on the Central...

(New York: 31 May 2007): The United Nations agencies and humanitarian partners working in the country have provided aid to more than 365,000 of 390,000 Somalis displaced by fighting in the capital,...

Kampala, May 31 2007 - The UN interim Humanitarian Coordinator (HC) joins the rest of the humanitarian community in condemning the attack on a World Food Program (WFP) truck in Karamoja, in which a...

Le relais entre besoins humanitaires et le développement INTRODUCTION/SUMMARY The successful elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2006 were expected to open up the stage for long-term...

IDP return process in northern Uganda: The Complex Figures Behind the "Triple Challenge" When the United Nations' Emergency Relief Coordinator, John Holmes, visited Uganda last month, he advocated...

Dakar, 31 mai 2007 : Le Bureau des Nations Unies pour la Coordination des Affaires Humanitaires (OCHA) organise, du 31 mai au 1er juin à Dakar (Hôtel Ngor Diarama), le premier atelier francophone sur...

Bangui, 29 May 2007: On Monday 28 May a rapid needs assessment mission led by UNHCR and composed of BONUCA, OCHA, WFP, the NGO Triangle and the government visited the town of Sam Ouandja, located in...