Press releases and statements

(New York: 24 September 2004): In Haiti, 40 tons of food were distributed continued yesterday led by CARE with MINUSTAH Argentinean troops providing security at two distribution points. Water and...

IHA/951 (Reissued as received.) GENEVA, 24 September (OCHA) - "Vulnerabilities have been allowed to grow in Haiti to the extent that any natural hazard inevitably leads to great tragedy", said...

(New York: 23 September 2004) - UN humanitarian agencies continue to bring aid to Bangladesh as heavy rains continue in the aftermath of the August's massive flooding, the worst that country suffered...

IHA/949 NEW YORK, 23 September (Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) -- In Gonaives, Haitian Civil Protection estimates the total deaths currently at 1,013 and 1,200 missing. United...

(New York: 22 September 2004) - The first part of a 7-member UN Disaster Assessment and Coordination (UNDAC) team arrives in flood-stricken Haiti today. The second part of the team arrives tomorrow...

Nairobi (22nd September 2004) - The United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator, Mr Maxwell Gaylard, has requested the combatant's forces currently fighting in the Lower Juba Region to immediately cease...

(New York: 22 September 2004) - Today, Mr Charles Gyude Bryant, the Chairman of the National Transitional Government of Liberia (NTGL) will take the historic action of signing, ratifying and acceding...

(New-York/Geneva 21 Sept 2004) - In the wake of devastating storms in the Caribbean, the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) reports that at least 500 people lost their lives and...

NEW YORK, 20 September (OCHA) -- In Grenada and Jamaica, United Nations agencies are rushing to meet emergency needs created by hurricanes that devastated the Caribbean last week. In Jamaica, United...

IHA/945 NEW YORK, 20 September (OCHA) - In Grenada and Jamaica, United Nations agencies are rushing to meet emergency needs created by hurricanes that devastated the Caribbean last week. In Jamaica,...