Press releases and statements

27 October 2010: CERF allocates over $1.6 million to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) for life-saving flood response in North Sudan. Over two million flood-affected will be provided with a...

27 October 2010: CERF allocates $12 million to aid 350,000 people affected by monsoon floods in Pakistan. In response to the monsoon floods in Pakistan, CERF has allocated a total of $42 million. ...

27 October 2010: In response to floods that destroyed the country, CERF allocates $4.4 million to aid 390,000 flood-affected people in Benin. Some $1.8 million has been allocated to the World Food...

Summary From January to the end of September 2010, CERF has allocated over $372 million, more than the historical annual average of $355 million. During the third quarter of 2010, CERF allocated $90...

A major food crisis was averted in Niger, thanks to good donor support, massive humanitarian intervention, good collaboration between the Government and humanitarian partners, and better than...

(Port au Prince / New York, 25 October 2010): The Government of Haiti, United Nations and humanitarian partners are continuing to rapidly scale up their response to the outbreak of cholera in Haiti,...

(Port-au-Prince / New York, 25 octobre 2010) : le Gouvernement d'Haïti, les Nations Unies et les partenaires humanitaires continuent de renforcer leur réponse à l'épidémie de choléra en Haïti, en...

CERF allocates $3 million to provide multi-sectoral assistance to refugees and host communities in the Department of Likouala, Republic of Congo (RoC). The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)...

(Port-au-Prince/New York, 21 October 2010): Following a three-day visit to Haiti to take stock of the ongoing humanitarian response to the 12 January earthquake, United Nations Assistant...

OVERVIEW, PRIORITY GAPS, ACTIONS REQUIRED: UNHCR continues to render protection and humanitarian assistance to 149,289 refugees and asylum seekers countrywide, the majority of whom are hosted in...