Press releases and statements

A UN inter-agency mission delivered a first batch of critical and lifesaving relief items to 6,000 IDPs in Karameh.

The funding enables the humanitarian community to respond to humanitarian needs and, at the same time, to preposition aid before the start of the rainy season. Last year, timely supply of life-saving aid to people in urgent need proved difficult as up to 60 per cent of the country became inaccessible due to seasonal flooding and poor roads.

(Johannesburg, 11 February 2013): Heavy and persistent rains in January have led to massive flooding in southern Mozambique, killing 105 people and temporarily displacing an estimated 150,000 people...

Con base en los resultados de una reunión extraordinaria del Consejo Departamental de Gestión de Riesgo y Desastres (CDGRD) de Nariño, que se realizó el 9 de febrero a las 11:30am, en la cual...

The plan responds to the growing needs of 3.9 million people across the country including 2.7 million internally displaced, more than half of them in the eastern Kivu provinces. The funding will help provide essential food aid, shelter, protection and water and sanitation programs to prevent life-threatening diseases such as cholera and measles.

(Kinshasa, le 7 février 2013) : A pied, par bateau, et en avion, à travers des pistes souvent quasi- impraticables, sous la menace des groupes armés, les organisation humanitaires travaillant en...

The acting UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia, Stefano Porretti, welcomed the news that the number of people in crisis in Somalia has halved to 1.05 million, but cautioned that gains could be reversed without sustained aid