Press releases and statements

ERF News The Emergency Response Fund (ERF) for Zimbabwe is appealing for US$3.5 million under CAP 2012 to support emergency projects in the country. At the beginning of the year, the ERF has a...

(Muscat/New York, 23 January 2012): Valerie Amos, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, today made her first official visit to the...

According the provincial governor of Badakhshan, on 22 January at 08:50AM, a helicopter of MoD crashed in Shiwa area, Arghanjkhwah district, Badakhshan. The District CoP, the head of ANDMA, and two...

Mogadishu (20 January 2012) – Six months after famine was declared in parts of Somalia, humanitarians are calling on the world not to forget the plight of four million Somalis in urgent need of...

The 2012 Humanitarian Requirements Document (HRD) was launched on 19 January 2012 and calls for US$ 168.7 million in humanitarian funding to meet food and non-food needs in Ethiopia between January...

(Abidjan / Geneva, 18 January 2012) - The United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator, Catherine Bragg, today concluded her three-day...

(Abidjan / Genève, 18 janvier 2012) - Catherine Bragg, Sous-Secrétaire Générale des Nations Unies aux affaires humanitaires et Coordonnatrice adjointe des secours d’urgence, a conclu sa visite de...

18 January 2012: CERF has allocated $2 million. Since 2 November 2011, a yellow fever epidemic has hit the North Region of Cameroon. More than 20 cases of yellow fever have been reported in eight of the 15 districts of the Region. More than 1.2 million people in Cameroon are at risk of the disease...

(Mindanao, Bangkok, New York: 17 January 2012): Hundreds of thousands of people in northern Mindanao, in particular those located in remote and suburban areas which, continue to need vital humanitarian assistance, shelter in particular, one month after flash floods and landslides swept through...

(Abidjan / Geneva, 17 January 2012) - The United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator, Catherine Bragg, traveled Tuesday to Guiglo,...