Press releases and statements

Thank you very much. My name is Peter de Clercq and I am the Humanitarian Coordinator here in Somalia. Thank you very much to the representatives of Somali and international media for joining us...

When 32-year-old Rosa Lino arrived at the cholera treatment unit in Gumbo, a neighbourhood in the capital, Juba, with her 22-month-old son Angelo, he had all the signs of severe dehydration and she...

(Dakar - N’Djamena, 27 August 2015) – The Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for the Sahel, Toby Lanzer, today completed a four-day visit to Chad during which he travelled to the Lake Chad region to...

(Yangon, 27 August 2015): Four weeks after devastating floods hit large swathes of Myanmar, many communities in the delta region are still under water. They can only be reached by boat, surviving on...

L’appel de fonds pour la réponse humanitaire au Tchad en 2015 est le plus élevé des neufs pays du Sahel. A ce jour, seulement 35% des 572 millions de dollars américains requis ont été reçus.

As Delivered Madam President, Since the conflict began, over a quarter of a million people have been killed in Syria and more than a million people injured. Some 7.6 million people have been...

Nineteen humanitarian actors have been killed since the start of the crisis in the country. Humanitarian access continues to be hampered by violence against aid workers.

(Bangui, 23 août 2015): Le Coordonnateur humanitaire, Aurélien A. Agbénonci et toute la communauté humanitaire en République centrafricaine (RCA) condamnent vivement l’attaque à l’encontre des...

Only limited humanitarian assistance has been provided in Baardheere and Diinsoor, in the Gedo and Bay regions respectively, for many years, mainly due to insecurity.

(Mogadishu, 20 August 2015): Tens of thousands of people in Somalia were able to partake in this week’s commemoration for World Humanitarian Day on 19 August, through social media and by listening to...