Press releases and statements

Due to the persistent insecurity, assistance in town and on the axes has been significantly reduced, with the exception of health services and provision of safe drinking water.

THE SITUATION IN SOUTH SUDAN The people of South Sudan are facing their highest levels of food insecurity since independence 10 years ago. The impact of lean season from May to July 2021 is expected...

Almost half the Somali population needs humanitarian aid; 2.9 million people remain displaced; 2.8 million will need urgent food assistance by September; and a million children are malnourished.

Bangui, 27 juin 2021 - La Coordonnatrice Humanitaire pour la République centrafricaine (RCA), Mme Denise Brown, condamne fermement la mort d’une accompagnante de patients tombée dans une embuscade...

(New York, 25 June 2021): Reports that three Médecins Sans Frontières staff members have been killed in Tigray are outrageous and saddening. I extend my sincere condolences to the victims’ families,...

(New York, 23 June 2021): I am deeply disturbed by reports of bombing yesterday that killed and wounded civilians in a market in Togoga, Tigray. I am equally alarmed by reports of armed forces...

(Caracas, 18 de junio de 2021). Las Naciones Unidas y socios humanitarios lanzaron el Plan de Respuesta Humanitaria 2021 de Venezuela con el objetivo de asistir a 4,5 millones de mujeres, hombres,...

This plan, which calls for $708 million, aims to provide life-saving emergency assistance, secure livelihoods through improving access to basic services, and ensure protection of the most vulnerable.

(Rome/Geneva/New York, 18 June 2021): Millions of people are pressed up against the border in an active war zone in north-west Syria and remain in need of humanitarian aid to survive. The UN needs...

Damascus and Amman, 17 June 2021 The United Nations Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator for Syria, Mr. Imran Riza, and the Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for the Syria Crisis, Mr...