Press releases and statements

SOMALIA'S THREE ZONES AND THEIR DIFFERENT STAGES OF POLITICAL, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RECOVERY Somaliland: Early Stages of Development Somaliland has experienced relative stability with functioning...

The Global Humanitarian Reform Over the past years, the international response to humanitarian emergencies demonstrated that the system did not always meet the basic needs of affected populations in...

WHY THE HRF? The Humanitarian Response Fund (HRF) for Somalia was established in 2004 to address humanitarian emergency gaps and meet the needs of the drought affected pastoral community in northern...

Participants: Mark Cutts (OCHA Geneva), Tom Delrue (OCHA Geneva), Manisha Thomas (ICVA Geneva), Jacques Ajaruvwa (OCHA Kinshasa), Gerson Brandao (OCHA Lubumbashi). The mission was also accompanied by...

(New York: 20 March 2006): The United Nations has allocated two cash grants totalling $80,000 for emergency relief in Ecuador, where heavy rains since early February have provoked flooding and...

Statement attributable to Mr. Dennis McNamara, Director of the Inter-Agency Internal Displacement Division of OCHA Kampala/Geneva, 17 March 2006 - A recent multi-donor mission to Uganda, led by...

AFR/1344 IHA/1169 (Adapté de l'anglais) NEW YORK/OSLO, 16 mars (OCHA) -- L'Envoyé spécial des Nations Unies pour la situation humanitaire dans la corne de l'Afrique, Kjell Magne Bondevik, a donné...

AFR/1344, IHA/1169 NEW YORK/OSLO, 16 March (OCHA) "The drought crisis in the Horn of Africa is very serious and we must address immediate needs," said Kjell Magne Bondevik, United Nations Special...

(Dakar/Ouagadougou, 15 March 2006): The United Nations (UN), under the aegis of the CILSS (Comité Permanent Inter-Etats de Lutte contre la Sécheresse dans le Sahel) is holding the second regional...

Dakar/Ouagadougou, 15 mars 2006 : Les Nations-Unies, sous l'égide du Comité Permanent Inter-Etats de Lutte contre la Sécheresse dans le Sahel (CILSS), organisent ces mercredi et jeudi, 15 et 16 mars,...