Press releases and statements

1. On Tuesday 21 August some 10,000 displaced Congolese crossed the border from Rutshuru area in eastern DRC's north Kivu province into the Ugandan district of Kisoro in southwestern Uganda. While...

(Kampala: 22 August 2007): The Government of Uganda and the United Nations will field two joint teams to assess the impact of severe flooding across large swaths of eastern Uganda. The two teams are...

(Khartoum/New York/Geneva: 20 August 2007): Amid continued devastation caused by floods in the Sudan, John Holmes, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief...

(New York: 20 August): After deploying an emergency team to Peru, in the wake of the earthquake in that country late last Wednesday, and to Jamaica, ahead of Hurricane Dean, the United Nations is...

(New York: 17 August 2007): According to a new analysis by the Food Security Analysis Unit for Somalia (FSAU), the Famine Early Warning Network, and other partners, the Shabelle regions in the south...

(New York: 17 August 2007): The Secretary-General has appointed Abdulaziz bin Mohamed Arrukban of Saudi Arabia as his Special Humanitarian Envoy and tasked him to ensure strengthened linkages between...

(New York: 17 August): A United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination (UNDAC) team was deployed to Peru today, following yesterday's 7.9 magnitude earthquake that has so far destroyed more...

Pledges & contributions The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is pleased to acknowledge the receipt of one new contribution of $500,000 (as of 27 July) made by China. OCHA...

(Khartoum: 16 August 2007): One and a half months into destruction caused by intense flooding in the Sudan, the United Nations and partners announced today that an appeal to the international...

(New York: 16 August 2007): The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) today announced two $100,000 emergency...