Press releases and statements

(NEW YORK: 14 July 2004) The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is helping Nepal's Ministry of Home Affairs airlift relief materials to remote areas in the country that have been affected by...

(NEW YORK: 14 July 2004) United Nations agencies have requested just under US$ 1 million, to meet the needs of 5,751 people affected by the recent floods and mudslides in Nicaragua. The appeal,...

AFR/984, IHA/921 NEW YORK, 2 July (OCHA) - Slow progress in Liberia's reconstruction is due to the failure of donors to contribute the $540 million they pledged at a donors' conference in New York in...

La population en rêvait, la communauté humanitaire l'a réalisé. Le train devant relier le Kantanga au Maniema est arrivé à Kindu mardi dernier après cinq jours de voyage. Une foule s'était pressée à...

AFR/981, IHA/920 NEW YORK, 28 June (OCHA) - In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 20 aid agencies lost an estimated $1.5 million in humanitarian supplies, equipment and vehicles due to recent...

The humanitarian community in the East of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) set up a strategy in order to continue its activities in this part of the country. Humanitarian aid has been...

La communauté humanitaire à l'est de la République Démocratique du Congo (RDC) a posé ce week-end des stratégies devant lui permettre de continuer ou de reprendre ses activités dans cette partie du...

(NEW-YORK / GENEVA: 15 June 2004) The United Nations need US$ 2.25 billion until the end of the year to address the critical needs of 49.4 million people affected by 25 crises in Africa, Europe and...

Close to 80 % of humanitarian aid, which covers an estimated 3.3 million vulnerable people in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has been suspended as a direct result of the...

Près de 80 % de l'aide humanitaire couvrant 3, 3 millions de personnes vulnérables à l'est de la République Démocratique du Congo (RDC) a été suspendue. Cette situation découle directement des...