Press releases and statements

IHA/1071 (Reissued as received.) VIENNA, 8 August (UN Information Service) - Over the last few years, large-scale conflicts in places such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Darfur and the Democratic Republic of...

(New York, 5 August): The United Nations today called for just under $81 million in humanitarian aid for Niger to combat the worsening crisis gripping the country. In addition to increasing the...

AFR/1225 IHA/1069 BUNIA, 3 August (OCHA) -- A large number of internally displaced persons in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo regional capital of Bunia are returning home, thanks to the...

Bunia, 3 August 2005 - A large number of internally displaced persons in eastern DRC's regional capital of Bunia are returning home, thanks to the significant advances made by UN peacekeepers,...

Le Coordonnateur Humanitaire condamne les attaques et tueries qui ont été perpétrées par des individus armés non encore identifiés successivement dans les villes d'Anyama, d'Agboville, d'Azaguié, de...

Together with one LRRRC field monitor an IDP returnee monitoring mission was undertaken on 25 July 2005 to Jorquelleh district in Bong County with the aim of finding out how the returnees are doing...

Jan Egeland, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, in his opening statement to a press conference held today at the Palais des Nations...

(New York, 13 July): An attack on the village of Turbi, in the Masarbit district of Kenya, reportedly carried out by some 500 well-armed members of the Gabre militia, which is reportedly based in...

(New York, 12 July): Hurricane Dennis, which struck Haiti on 7 July, and Cuba from 7 to 9 July, as a category IV hurricane, has killed at least eleven in Haiti, and ten in Cuba. The storm, which...

Les Mayi-Mayi, considérés par eux-mêmes comme « des patriotes congolais », seraient-ils en train de perdre leur raison d'être en s'éloignant de leurs buts premiers qu'étaient la protection des civils...