Press releases and statements

(New York, 27 January 2004): Jan Egeland, Under-Secretary-General of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, arrived in Chechnya from Moscow last night. In Grozny, the...

NAIROBI (26 January 2004) - The (UN) Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia, Mr. Maxwell Gaylard, today condemned the recent murders of innocent women and children in clan-related...

Madame President, distinguished Members of the Council, On behalf of my colleagues in the humanitarian community, I thank you for giving me this opportunity to address the Council in open session...

Moscow, 25 January 2004 - From 25-29 January, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mr. Jan Egeland, will undertake an official visit...

(New York: 22 January 2003) - Thirty-five people have been killed and hundreds displaced since inter-communal violence in Côte d'Ivoire's western regions worsened late last month. "There has been an...

IHA/856, IK/417 NEW YORK, 19 January 2004 (OCHA) -- United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today apprised representatives of the Coalition Provisional Authority and the Iraqi Governing Council...

Geneva, 15 January 2004 - After completing a mission to Chad, Ambassador Tom Eric Vraalsen, the Secretary-General's Special Envoy for Humanitarian Affairs for Sudan, urged today a group of donors in...

(New York, 15 January 2003) - In Zimbabwe, people living in Harare and outlying areas are now getting a steady supply of clean water. This breakthrough is the result of the combined efforts of the...

(New York, 12 January 2004): Mr. Tom Eric Vraalsen, the Secretary-General's Special Envoy for Humanitarian Affairs for Sudan, advised moving Sudanese refugees in Chad farther from the border and...

Conakry - 9 January 2004. As a result of the Côte d'Ivoire crisis a vast number of civilians have sought refuge in Guinea since September 2002. Among these are - according to official figures - over...