Press releases and statements

This year's response plan targets 81 percent of 4.2 million people in need across the country, with a new approach focusing on life-saving assistance, nutrition, protection and resilience.

Rann is inaccessible to international humanitarian organisations both by road and by air. An estimated 76,000 IDPs were taking refuge in the isolated town near the border with Cameroon.

UN Humanitarian Coordinator calls for unconditional, unimpeded and sustained humanitarian access to affected civilians in the old city and urges all parties to protect civilians.

(KYIV, 11 January 2019) – The UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Ukraine, Ms. Osnat Lubrani expresses her concern, as three water workers were injured after their vehicle came under fire on...

The contribution will allow WFP to ramp up humanitarian logistical operations, including more humanitarian workers, in order to increase its assistance from 8 million people a month to 12 million a month.

More than 30,000 IDPs arrived in Maiduguri, fleeing clashes in Baga and Moguno, since late December. The fighting also caused the largest withdrawal of aid workers since 2016.

Le nombre de personnes ayant besoin d’aide et de protection est passé de 2,5 millions à 2,9 millions, dont 1,9 million ont besoin d’une assistance aiguë et immédiate.

I am appalled and outraged by the news of the abduction and killing of an aid worker representing a non-governmental organisation last week in Idleb, in the northwest part of Syria. Aid workers in...

Bangui, 7 January 2019 – The Central African Republic continues to experience a complex and dire humanitarian crisis. One out of four Central Africans is either internally displaced or a refugee. The...