Press releases and statements

WHO: Valerie Amos, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, and Helen Clark, United Nations Development Programme Administrator WHAT: Mission...

Mme Catherine Bragg, Sous-Secrétaire générale aux affaires humanitaires et Coordonnatrice adjointe des secours d’urgence, a averti ce matin que, dans la région du Sahel, la sécheresse combinée à la...

In September 2011, a fuel explosion and fire in the Mukuru-Sinai slums of Nairobi, Kenya, killed more than 100 people and left another 100 with serious burns. The UN rushed a Rapid Environmental...

Ladies and gentlemen, I want to brief you today on the emerging food and nutrition crisis in the Sahel, after my trip to Dakar, Senegal, last week, in which I tried to get a sense of ongoing...

(Bunia, 13 février 2012)- La communauté humanitaire de la Province Orientale a procédé au lancement local du Plan d’Action Humanitaire (PAH) 2012 de la République Démocratique du Congo, un appel de...

(Dakar, Senegal – 10 February 2012). – An updated version of the Strategy document to prevent and mitigate a food and nutrition crisis in the Sahel is now available. Humanitarian partners from the...

La version actualisée de la Stratégie humanitaire pour le Sahel met l’accent sur les besoins et la réponse à la crise alimentaire et nutritionnelle dans la région (Dakar, Sénégal – 10 février 2012)...

E l año 2012 se presenta con nuevos retos para el quehacer humanitario. Las víctimas a causas de las contínuas lluvías y por el conflicto armado continúan siendo el objeto de la acción del Equipo...

(New York, 3 February 2012) I welcome the news that famine conditions are no longer present in Somalia, according to analysis today released by the Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit and...

Bumper harvest provides respite, but 2.34 million Somalis remain in crisis Nairobi (3 February 2012) – The combination of the massive scale‐up in humanitarian assistance and an exceptional harvest...