Press releases and statements

Watch the Webcast - Daily Press Briefing and guests on the humanitarian situation in Somalia (Running time: 00:41:27) Mark Bowden, United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia,...

In response to the poliomyelitis outbreak in the Congo, CERF has allocated $2 million dollars to three nation-wide emergency immunization campaigns targeting the whole population of 4.1 million...

Watch the Webcast At a Headquarters press conference today, top United Nations relief officials described their recent trips to Afghanistan and Pakistan to assess ongoing humanitarian operations and...

9 December 2010: In response to flooding caused by continuous rain in Colombia, CERF has allocated $6.6 million. In order to fill a 20 percent gap in funding gap to meet the needs of the most...

(Bogotá, 9 de diciembre de 2010): En esta primera fase de la respuesta a la emergencia humanitaria en Colombia, el Sistema de Naciones Unidas ha movilizado cerca de 6 millones de dólares para...

(Bogotá, 9 December 2010): In this first phase of the response to the humanitarian emergency in Colombia, the UN System has mobilized close to 6 million dollars to complement the efforts of the...

Province du Bandundu - Dans cadre de son projet de lutte contre le konzo (paralysie flasque des membres) au Kwango, financé par l'Union Européenne, l'ONG Action Contre la Faim (ACF-USA) est en train...

$1.5 million has been allocated to the World Food Programme (WFP) to provide leverage during the resource mobilization process in support of WFP/UNHAS operations in Iraq. The project aims to raise...

7 December 2010: Some $846,000 has been allocated to the World Food Programme (WFP) for food assistance for drought affected families, children, and mothers in El Chaco region. The United Nations...

(Islamabad / New York / Geneva: 05 December 2010): On the final day of her four-day mission to Pakistan, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief...