(Dubai, United Arab Emirates: 10 April 2006) Your Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum (UAE Vice-President, Prime-Minister and Ruler of Dubai) (tbc), And / or Your Highness Princess Haya...
Press releases and statements
Press releases and statements
Ethiopia + 6 more
News and Press ReleaseKeynote address by Jan Egeland at DIHAD 2006
Pakistan
News and Press ReleaseUnited Nations in Pakistan shifts to recovery and reconstruction
(Islamabad: 8 April 2006): Six months after the earthquake, reconstruction has begun in countless villages and hamlets. The internally displaced persons are gradually returning to their place of...
Djibouti + 4 more
News and Press ReleaseUnited Nations launches $426 million drought appeal for Horn of Africa
(Nairobi, Geneva and New York: 7 April 2006): United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Jan Egeland, will today launch an appeal for $426...
Sudan
News and Press ReleaseSudan: Emergency Relief Coordinator dismayed by NGO being asked to leave Darfur
(New York: 5 April 2006): United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator Jan Egeland expressed dismay today on learning that the non-governmental organization, Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) had been...
Iran
News and Press ReleaseUnited Nations dispatches emergency relief to Iran
(New York: 3 April 2006): In the wake of the series of earthquakes that struck Lorestan province in western Iran in the night and early morning of 30 to 31 March 2006, the United Nations has...
Uganda
News and Press ReleaseEmergency Relief Coordinator visits Patango displacement camp in Uganda
(New York: 1 April 2006): United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Jan Egeland, today travelled to Pader district in northern Uganda, where he...
Pakistan
News and Press ReleaseDonor Mission visits Pakistan
(Islamabad: 1 April 2006): A donor mission comprising representatives from Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and the United...
Djibouti + 4 more
News and Press ReleaseUnited Nations dedicates $1.7 million from new global emergency fund to Horn of Africa
(New York: 31 March 2006): The United Nations has now granted just over $1.7 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to the World Health Organization for urgent, life-saving...
Uganda
News and Press ReleaseEmergency Relief Coordinator meets President Museveni in Uganda
(New York: 31 March 2006): United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Jan Egeland, today met with Uganda's President Museveni on the second day...
Djibouti + 4 more
News and Press ReleaseLe fonds central d'intervention d'urgence accorde 1,7 million de dollars à l'organisation mondiale de la santé pour intervenir dans la Corne de l'Afrique
AFR/1356 IHA/1177 (Adapté de l'anglais) Les Nations Unies ont accordé plus de 1,7 million de dollars à l'Organisation mondiale de la santé (OMS), au titre du Fonds central d'intervention d'urgence...