Press releases and statements

(New York, 14 June): More than four weeks on from the launch of a six-month $5.95 million Flash Appeal, yet another United Nations appeal for an African crisis has failed to garner significant...

Suite aux tragiques événements qui ont endeuillé les différentes communautés et populations dans les villages de « Guitrozon » et « Petit Duékoué » et dans la ville de Duékoué, les acteurs...

AFR/1188, IHA/1052 NEW YORK, 9 June (OCHA) - Although it is only 20 per cent funded, an innovative programme has made remarkable progress in reducing child deaths in Ethiopia this year. The Enhanced...

(New York, 7 June 2005): Random, vicious attacks against civilians have led to new displacements from at least three localities in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo in the past week. In Sonsa,...

(New York, 6 June 2005): Six weeks into the Flash Appeal for $7.5 million for drought relief in Djibouti, donors have failed to provide funding for 95 per cent of needs, leaving the agricultural,...

(New York, 3 June 2005) OCHA has taken rapid action to address the humanitarian situation in and around the town of Duékoué in western Cote d'Ivoire in the wake of recent, repeated attacks on...

See below for French version (New York, 2 June 2005): Two weeks ago, as Niger's lean season neared and indications emerged that the country faced a looming "silent crisis," the UN Office for the...

Bukavu, May 31 - Innocent civilians have been once again caught up in the fighting between armed groups in South Kivu, with 19 people killed and many others wounded during an attack on the...

Bukavu, 31 mai - Des civils innocents ont une fois de plus été pris au centre des combats entre des groupes armés dans la Province du Sud-Kivu. 19 personnes ont été tuées et plusieurs autres blessées...

Statement by Jan Egeland, Emergency Relief Coordinator and Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs "I am very concerned about the arrest of Paul Foreman, country director of MSF-Holland, in...