Press releases and statements

(New York, 19 May 2008): Failed rains and the current drought in large areas of Ethiopia have triggered massive food shortages that have left up to 3.4 million in need of life-saving humanitarian aid...

With aid arriving in Myanmar in increasing quantities, the United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator urged the country's Government to allow international relief workers into the area affected by...

(Bangkok/New York, 13 May 2008): While relief supplies are starting to reach the cyclone-devastated areas in Yangon and the Ayeyarwady Delta in Myanmar, 1.5 to 2 million affected people are...

Following is a near-verbatim transcript of today’s press conference on Myanmar by Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, John Holmes: Thank you very much...

(New York, 9 May 2008): Relief agencies today issued a joint flash appeal for $187 million to fund an emergency humanitarian effort to help an estimated 1.5 million people in Myanmar who are...

(New York, 8 May 2008): United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes today condemned the killing of a UN World Food...

In the wake of the devastating Cyclone Nargis, the humanitarian situation in Myanmar was growing increasingly desperate with nearly 1.5 million people severely affected and a real danger that an even...

(New York, 8 May 2008): United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes today condemned the killing of a UN World Food Programme -...

Kinshasa, le 7 mai 2008 - Le Pooled Fund vient de finaliser l'identification des projets d'assistance humanitaire qui seront financés par la première allocation de l'année 2008. Le montant global de...

About 30 international offers of assistance had already been received by the United Nations in response to the destruction caused by Cyclone Nargis, which had struck Myanmar, killing thousands of...