Press releases and statements

The Humanitarian Response Plan lays out how 56 partners including UN agencies, national and international organizations aim to provide aid to 2 million vulnerable civilians in 2020.

Your Excellency, Honourable Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Ms Sadiya Umar Farouq, Your Excellency, the EU Commissioner for Crisis Management, Mr Janez...

DAMASCUS, 23 January 2020 – The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) released US$14.5 million from the Syria Humanitarian Fund (SHF) to provide immediate support to families...

Khartoum, 23 January 2020. The Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan, Gwi-Yeop Son, condemns an attack on a village in the Abyei area that left 32 people killed, 25 more people injured, three children...

The US$10 million allocation will go to FAO and fund an increase in pesticide aerial spraying operations which is the only effective means to reduce the locust numbers.

Bangui, 21 January 2020 – The Central African Republic is still experiencing a dire and complex humanitarian crisis. 2.6 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance and protection, which is...

Bangui, 21 janvier 2020 - La République centrafricaine connaît toujours une crise humanitaire grave et complexe. 2,6 millions de personnes ont besoin d'assistance et de protection humanitaire, ce qui...

On 18 January, the humanitarian hub in Ngala was the direct target of a complex assault by heavily armed non-state armed groups operatives. An entire section of the facility was burned down.

(London, 17 January 2020): International donors today affirmed the importance of scaling up their humanitarian assistance to Sudan in 2020 and of frontloading resources early in the year. At a...

Aid deliveries have slowed considerably, due to the discontinuation of access authorization procedures, and the absence of viable alternative mechanisms.