Press releases and statements

Regarding food relief dispatched to drought affected areas of Somali Region in 2005, the DPPA has transported ten percent of the fifth round of relief food allocation while dispatches are nearly...

1,183 dead and 4,055 wounded (Lebanese Higher Relief Council (HRC)) Approximately 140,000 returnees from Syria (Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and Governor of...

1,183 dead and 4,054 wounded (according to Lebanon's Higher Relief Council (HRC)) Approximately 140,000 returnees from Syria (Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and...

(New York: 20 August 2007): As the United Nations (UN) system finalizes a Flash Appeal for the earthquake stricken parts of Peru, UN inter-agency teams are assessing the situation in the affected...

Population Returns - 1,183 dead and 4,054 wounded (according to Lebanon's Higher Relief Council (HRC)) - 262,174 displaced, down from nearly one million one week ago (HRC) - 107,000 returnees from...

(New York: 18 August 2006): The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has made a second round of allocations totalling $43 million for chronically underfunded...

(New York: 17 August 2006): The United Nations is responding to needs arising from recent floods in South Omo Valley in Ethiopia. The Government's Disaster Prevention and Preparedness Agency (DPPA)...

(New York: 17 August 2006): The Government of The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia has requested international support to assist people affected by recent floods and mudflows in that country. In...

(New York: 17 August 2006): More than 130 people have died and 11,000 been diagnosed with acute watery diarrhoea in Ethiopia over the past three months. The first outbreak of acute watery diarrhoea...

Population Returns Thousands of displaced Lebanese continue to return to their home areas. The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) estimates that 6,000 people are headed back toward the worst-hit...