Press releases and statements

(New York: 19 May 2004) - As the June rainy season approaches in Darfur, UN humanitarian agencies and their non-governmental organization (NGO) partners are racing to bring aid to people in need. By...

(Geneva/New York: 18 May 2004): Thirty-nine people have been confirmed dead and seventeen injured after an attack by the rebel group known as the "Lord's Resistance Army" on the Pagak camp for...

(Abidjan, le 14 mai 2004) - La crise socio-politique qui perdure depuis le 19 septembre 2002 ne cesse d'aggraver chaque jour les conditions de survie et de développement des enfants vivant en Côte...

(New York: 14 May 2004) There are as half as many people in camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Burundi as there were two years ago, according to a new survey led by the UN Office for...

(New York, 10 May 2004) - UN and other humanitarian agencies are responding to humanitarian needs created by floods in Zambia that now affect more than 20,000 people. Flooding in western and...

(New York, 7 May 2004) - The humanitarian situation of tens of thousands of Congolese expelled from neighbouring Angola over these past few weeks appears to be stabilizing. The number of expellees...

A senior United Nations relief official was to meet today with President Álvaro Uribe of Colombia for talks on the country's humanitarian situation, the worst in the Western Hemisphere, with an...

(Bogota: 5 May 2004): Jan Egeland, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, begins an official visit to Colombia today. During his mission to Colombia, Mr...

Le Coordonnateur Humanitaire des Nations Unies est profondément préoccupé par les derniers développements de la situation dans la Plaine de la Ruzizi, au Sud-Kivu. M. Herbert M'cleod a discuté de la...

Le Coordonnateur Humanitaire des Nations Unies est profondément préoccupé par les derniers développements de la situation dans la Plaine de la Ruzizi, au Sud-Kivu. M. Herbert M'cleod a discuté de la...