Press releases and statements

(New York, 19 September 2007): In Uganda, the United Nations is distributing aid to those affected by recent severe flooding due to the heaviest rain in 35 years, which has been falling across...

(New York, 18 September): Today, United Nations emergency staff of the United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination (UNDAC) team arrived in Tamale in northern Ghana, where they have...

Accra, 18 September 2007 - Floods in Ghana have affected 260,000 people and killed 20 people in three regions in the northern parts of the country, according to Government. On 11 September, State...

(New York, 14 September 2007): The United Nations today launched a Flash Appeal to help meet mounting emergency needs in Nicaragua, after category-five Hurricane Felix made landfall on 4 September,...

(New York, 14 September 2007): The entire population of some 12,000 people has now fled from their homes in the area between the towns of Markounda and Silambi, in the north of the Central African...

(New York, 13 September 2007): A series of earthquakes struck Indonesia today, following an initial 8.4 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Sumatra the previous evening. The United Nations (UN)...

(New York, 12 September 2007): Early Thursday morning, a United Nations assessment team will fly to Bengkulu from Aceh with humanitarian supplies, following Wednesday evening's 8.4 magnitude...

Pledges & contributions The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is pleased to acknowledge the receipt of six new contributions totaling $962,522.33 (as of 30 August). The...

Conakry 11 September 2007: At the weekly meeting of the National Crisis Committee on Epidemics on 6 September 2007, the Secretary General of the Ministry of Public Health noted that there was a...

(New York, 10 September 2007): On 11 September, 2007 Under-Secretary-General (USG) for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes will brief the Security Council on his mission...