Press releases and statements

(Nairobi, Geneva, NYC) The United Nations system in Uganda is planning to increase its presence and programmes in northern Uganda in the coming year to help some 2 million Ugandans displaced by...

(Dakar, Geneva and New York: 18 November 2005): The United Nations and its development partners who gathered in Dakar, Senegal, from 15 to 16 November for a regional consultation on the Sahel have...

(New York: 18 November 2005): Heightened rates of malnutrition among children have prompted the initiation of emergency nutritional and medical assistance activities in Madagascar's South-Eastern...

(Dakar, Genève et New York: 18 novembre 2005): Les Nations-Unies et leurs partenaires sont tombés d'accord sur la nécessité de mettre au point une approche coordonnée, sous-régionale et...

(Dakar, Genève et New York: 14 novembre 2005): Les Nations-Unies lancent, pour la première fois, un dialogue entre acteurs humanitaires et agences de développement sur la sécurité alimentaire dans...

(Dakar, Geneva and New York: 14 November 2005): For the first time, the United Nations will tomorrow convene a joint dialogue between humanitarian and development actors on the issue of food security...

(New York: 10 November): Favourable rains have lent hope that harvests of Niger's main crops will be good in the 2005/06 season, reducing the possibility of recurrent severe food insecurity. There...

(Dakar, Geneva and New York: 7 November 2005): The alarming wave of cholera that swept across the West Africa subregion this summer has prompted the United Nations today to launch a $3.2 million...

Geneva and New York: 2 November 2005: "Tens of thousands of people in Central America continue to suffer the ravages of hurricane Stan," said Yvette Stevens, Assistant Emergency Relief Coordinator,...

(New York: 1 November 2005): Along with neighbouring countries along the Rift Valley in eastern Africa, Ethiopia faces a new and imminent threat from avian influenza, according to the United Nations...