Press releases and statements

Tripoli – 22 March 2020 – The timing could not be worse for the threats of the COVID-19 pandemic to loom over Libya as a protracted conflict has already inflicted so much damage including loss of...

WHO: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Mark Lowcock, WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, and UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta...

Kinshasa, 21 mars 2020 – La pandémie mondiale de Covid-19 touche désormais la République démocratique du Congo. Dans ce contexte, la communauté humanitaire s’organise pour continuer à répondre aux...

DAMASCUS, 19 March 2020 – The UN Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator for Syria, Mr. Imran Riza, expressed sorrow over yesterday’s killing of a United Nations Relief and Works Agency for...

Damascus and Amman, 15 March 2020 The United Nations Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator for Syria, Mr. Imran Riza, and United Nations Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for the Syria...

Jerusalem, 8 March 2020 On this International Women’s Day, the United Nations acknowledges and celebrates the contributions of Palestinian women to the development of their communities. In this...

UN Humanitarian Chief has issued a call for additional funding to get lifesaving help to as many people as possible across the whole of Syria, highlighting a devastating impact on the civilians.

Civilians across northwest Syria are experiencing a grave humanitarian crisis. Military activity in the region has displaced nearly one million people since December. Most of them are women and...

New York/Geneva, 1 March 2020: UN Humanitarian Chief Mark Lowcock today released US$15 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to help fund global efforts to contain the COVID-19...

As the locusts continue their invasion throughout eastern Africa, and more details emerge about the scale of need in affected areas, the cost of action has already doubled, to $138 million.