Press releases and statements

Two regions of southern Somalia are currently facing famine. Malnutrition rates are above 50 per cent in some of the districts and tens of thousands of people have already died for reasons related to...

General Information: • Famine has been declared in Lower Shabelle and parts of Bakool in southern Somalia. • Other southern regions may also be affected in the coming two months. • Tens of thousands...

Food Assistance • 270,000 people have received food rations in southern regions of Hiraan and Banadir including more than 85,000 people receiving cooked meals in 20 feeding centres on a daily basis...

(New York: 15 July 2011): I am increasingly alarmed by the mounting allegations of mass graves in South Kordofan, Sudan, and of reported disappearances of civilians, targeting of people on an ethnic...

"In the first half of July, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) briefed the informal Security Council Expert Group on the Protection of Civilians on the issues pertaining...

15 July 2011: Severe flooding in the Philippines led the Emergency Relief Coordinator to allocate $4.9 million from the CERF’s rapid response window to address the most urgent life-saving...