Press releases and statements

(Misrata, Libya, 14 July 2011): The United Nations has completed its second inter-agency humanitarian assessment mission to the port city of Misrata, which had seen some of the worst fighting over...

14 July 2011: Some $3.3 million was made available from the CERF in July in response to a cholera outbreak threatening five million people in southern and western parts of Chad. Nearly 6,000 people...

Watch the Webcast I have just returned from Nigeria and Ethiopia and I will brief on that visit. I’ll start with Nigeria and go on to Ethiopia. Nigeria is playing an increasingly important role in...

Watch the Webcast A worsening drought and increasing pressure on scarce resources threatened to push Ethiopia into “famine-like conditions”, the top United Nations humanitarian official said today in...

Good evening everyone and thank you very much for joining us on a Saturday evening. The Horn of Africa is once again in the grip of a severe drought. I have just come back from the Somali Region,...

(Addis Ababa, 9 July 2011): On the second and final day of her mission to the country, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos...

(Addis Ababa, 8 July 2011): The United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Valerie Amos, started a two-day mission to Ethiopia today, during...

Nairobi, 7 July, 2011 – The humanitarian community welcomes the announcement from Al Shabbab to re-open areas under its control to humanitarian interventions, but calls for guarantees that aid workers will be able to safely reach those most in need. In January 2010, Al Shabaab expelled some...

(Abuja/New York, 6 July 2011): Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos today met in Abuja with Nigerian and ECOWAS officials to discuss the...