Press releases and statements

(Kyiv, 13 February 2019) The United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator Ms. Osnat Lubrani yesterday briefed the UN Member States in New York via a video connection from Kyiv on the...

New York, 12 February 2019 As delivered Mr. President, Thank you for the opportunity to brief the Security Council on the humanitarian situation in eastern Ukraine. Civilians continue to pay the...

Desperately needed food aid for millions of Yemenis “is at risk of rotting” in a key Red Sea storage facility because conditions are too unsafe to reach it, UN Special Envoy and UN Emergency relief chief said on Monday.

Abuja, 8 February 2019 – The United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, Mr. Edward Kallon, has expressed his sympathy for the thousands of Nigerians affected by a fire outbreak in a camp for...

The UN has been unable to access the Red Sea Mills in Hodeida since September 2018, which houses enough grain to feed 3.7 million people for a month and sits inaccessible.

The joint UN and SARC inter-agency convoy will provide life-saving humanitarian aid to more than 40,000 displaced people at the remote Rukban ‘makeshift’ settlement in south-eastern Syria, on the border with Jordan.

The Response Plan for 2019 reveals that some 823,000 people, including 248,000 children, are in need of some form of a humanitarian assistance, and that half of them are Libyan citizens.

The funds will help with time-critical actions to strengthen surveillance, build case management capabilities, enhance laboratory services and increase infection prevention and control.

3 February 2019 Beirut, Taawon-Lebanon and The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) will be able to sustain their support towards the life- saving...

(Niamey, le 1er Février), Le Premier Ministre, Chef du Gouvernement, SEM Brigi Rafini a lancé ce jour un appel de fonds de 383 millions de dollars US, soit 191,5 milliards de FCFA pour apporter une...