Press releases and statements

(Abidjan / Genève, 17 janvier 2012) - Catherine Bragg, Sous-Secrétaire générale des Nations Unies aux affaires humanitaires et Coordonnatrice adjointe des secours d’urgence, s’est rendue mardi à...

(Kobe, 16 January 2012) – The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA) has appointed a manager to head its Japan office, based in Kobe. In the hours following the...

(Abidjan / Geneva, 16 January 2012) – The United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator, Catherine Bragg, has started a three-day mission to Côte d’Ivoire. The mission aims to assess the humanitarian situation one year after the...

(Abidjan / Genève, 16 janvier 2012) - Catherine Bragg, Sous-Secrétaire Générale des Nations Unies pour les Affaires Humanitaires et Coordonnatrice des Secours d’Urgence, est arrivée hier en Côte...

Watch the webcast The international response to the 2011 famine in Somalia had had a “tremendous impact” in reducing mortality and raising nutritional well-being, but the fragility of the situation...

10 January 2012: The 2011 agricultural season in Chad was negatively affected by drought and pests attacks. Food insecurity has been further exacerbated by the Libyan crisis in 2011 which caused the...

Port-au-Prince, le 10 janvier 2012 – Malgré des difficultés et des défis structurels nombreux, les signes de progrès et de résultats positifs se multiplient en Haïti alors que le pays commémore le...

Port-au-Prince, 10 January 2012 – Despite numerous difficulties and structural challenges, signs of progress and positive results multiply in Haiti as the country marks the second anniversary of the devastating earthquake that hit the country on January 12, 2010. “These achievements are real and...

(N’Djamena/New York, 10 janvier 2012): Le Fonds central des Nations Unies pour les interventions d’urgence (CERF) a octroyé 6 millions de dollars à trois agences des Nations Unies, soutenues par des ONG, afin qu'elles puissent lancer des interventions d'urgence pour répondre à la crise...

DISASTER EVENTS IN ASIA AND THE PACIFIC IN 2011 Asia and the Pacific continues to live up to its reputation as the world’s most natural-disaster-prone region. The International Disaster Database, EM-DAT, reports 89 natural-disaster events in the region in 2011. In terms of the number of events,...