NAIROBI (30 October 2003) - UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia Maxwell Gaylard is deeply concerned that the potential failure of the current short season Deyr rains in the Sool...
Press releases and statements
The UN Under-Secretary-General, Martin Griffith takes questions from the press in Kahramanmaraş, Turkey, after the devastating earthquake in February 2023.
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Somalia
News and Press ReleaseUN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator deeply concerned about deterioration of humanitarian situation in Sool Plateau, Somalia
Liberia
News and Press ReleaseLiberia: Agencies assess conditions in Buchanan
(New York: 24 October 2003) - Mr. Abou Moussa, the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Liberia and Humanitarian Coordinator led an inter-Agency Mission to Buchanan (22...
Iraq
News and Press ReleaseMadrid donors conference on Iraq: Statement by Mr. Jan Egeland, Emergency Relief Coordinator and Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs
Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, On behalf of the United Nations, I would like to thank the Spanish government and particularly you, Mr. Chairman, for hosting this forum and providing the UN an...
Ethiopia
News and Press ReleaseDeath by malaria threatens 15 million Ethiopians as UN agencies appeal for $5.8 million to avert major epidemic
AFR/737, IHA/812 ADDIS ABABA, 22 October (UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) - As the risk of death spread by malaria mosquitoes looms in millions of Ethiopian homes, the United...
Somalia
News and Press ReleaseUN Humanitarian Coordinator condemns fourth killing of aid worker in Somalia in under 40 days
Nairobi (22 October 2003) -- The United Nations (UN) Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator today condemned the murder of two British international aid workers, killed yesterday by unknown gunmen in...
Somalia
News and Press ReleaseUN Emergency Relief Coordinator saddened by deaths of aid workers killed by gunmen in Somaliland
AFR/735, IHA/810 NEW YORK, 21 October (OCHA) -- In a statement today, Jan Egeland, the United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator, expressed profound sorrow over the killing by unknown gunmen of two...
Liberia
News and Press ReleaseLiberians displaced by fighting continue to stream into camps, UN inter-agency needs-assessment team finds
AFR/735, IHA/810 NEW YORK, 21 October (OCHA) -- An inter-agency mission that assessed conditions in camps for internally displaced persons at Totota and Salala reports that displaced Liberians...
Liberia
News and Press ReleaseLiberia: UN undertakes first humanitarian mission to Voinjama in four years
(Monrovia, Monday, 20 October 2003). On Saturday, the United Nations undertook a rapid assessment mission to Voinjama (Lofa County), a LURD controlled city located on Liberia's Northern border with...
Côte d'Ivoire + 3 more
News and Press ReleaseWest Africa: Humanitarian overview
According to the latest information gathered from OCHA offices in the sub-region, some 2,228,846 civilians from Liberia, Côte d'Ivoire, Sierra Leone, Mali and Burkina Faso are affected by the recent...
World
News and Press ReleaseStatement by Jan Egeland, USG for Humanitarian Affairs, at the Second International Conference on Early Warning (EWC-II) - Integrating Early Warning into Public Policy
16 October 2003, Bonn, Germany Dear friends and colleagues, First of all, my warm thanks to the Government of Germany for hosting this Second International Conference on Early Warning. Germany's...