Press releases and statements

A total of $ 457 million in contributions recorded for humanitarian interventions in Kenya in 2009 - The 2010 Emergency Humanitarian Response Plan received 71% ($413 million) of the $ 580 million...

La souffrance Les attaques de l'Armée de résistance du Seigneur (LRA) venue de l'Ouganda continuent de faire des victimes parmi la population du nord-est de la République démocratique du Congo (RDC)...

The Expanded Humanitarian Response Fund (ERF) aims to help fill critical humanitarian gaps within different sectors through readily available flexible funding for emergency response to: 1. Save lives...

29 January 2010: Three million dollars has been allocated to the World Food Programme (WFP) to improve nutritional status and reinforce livelihoods of 125,000 vulnerable populations. The Food and...

(New York, 28 January 2010): The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has contributed US$50 million to support the United Nations humanitarian response to the earthquake in Haiti. This makes the Kingdom of Saudi...

(Kinshasa/New York/Genève, 27 janvier 2010) : la persistance de besoins humanitaires urgents dans le district du Sud-Ubangi au nord-ouest du pays, théâtre d'affrontements armés intensifs depuis la...

(Kinshasa / New York / Geneva, 26 January 2010): The United Nations and its humanitarian partners in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are highly concerned about persistently dire...

(New York, 25 January 2010): United Nations Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes on Monday told delegates attending the Ministerial Conference...

Ensuring coordinated messaging to the media on the humanitarian aid effort in Haiti is crucial. Public information Officers (PIOs) working on humanitarian issues are requested to contact the OCHA...

Haiti is facing a humanitarian emergency of catastrophic proportions. The earthquake has hit the most densely populated area of the country. Buildings and infrastructure were heavily damaged...