Press releases and statements

The first standard allocation of the year comes at a critical time to avert a further deterioration of living conditions for the people benefitting from the support.

COMMUNIQUE DE PRESSE Le Coordonnateur humanitaire exprime, au nom de la communauté humanitaire, sa vive inquiétude face à l'escalade de la violence dans l’Est du pays et rappelle l'importance du...

(Port Sudan, 6 June 2024) – I am shocked by reports of violent attacks and a high number of casualties in the village of Wad Al-Noura in Aj Jazirah State on 5 June 2024. While the UN does not yet...

Dakar, le 6 juin 2024 - La vie de 32,8 millions de personnes à travers le Sahel est affectée par un ensemble complexe et interconnecté de crises, exacerbées par l'instabilité, la détérioration de la...

Aid partners need $4.7 billion in 2024 to meet the urgent needs of 20.9 million people in Burkina Faso, Cameroon’s Far North Region, Chad, Mali, Niger, and Nigeria’s Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states.

Funding To implement its mandate, OCHA relies heavily on voluntary contributions, mostly from Governments. Only a small percentage of OCHA’s programme budget is funded from the UN Regular Budget...

More than 30 million people across southern Africa have been affected by a severe drought. Millions could be pushed into acute hunger unless support is urgently mobilized, warned the UN and partners.

NEW YORK/GENEVA/ROME/WASHINGTON – Time is running out for millions of people in Sudan who are at imminent risk of famine, displaced from their lands, living under bombardments, and cut off from...

I strongly condemn the attacks that hit the residential area of the Novobavarskyi district in Kharkiv late last night, killing and injuring people, including children, and causing significant...

(Port Sudan, 30 May 2024) – I am profoundly distressed by the humanitarian situation in Al Fasher, where the noose of war is tightening its stranglehold on a civilian population that is under attack...