AFR/730, IHA/808 NEW YORK, 15 October (Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) - United Nationshumanitarian agencies and their non-governmental organization partners in Liberia are...
Press releases and statements
Press releases and statements
Liberia
News and Press ReleaseLiberia: Humanitarian assistance scaling up
Liberia
News and Press ReleaseDisplaced people continue to arrive in Totota, Liberia
AFR/724, IHA/806 NEW YORK, 9 October (Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) - On Tuesday, 7 October, an inter-agency mission visited Totota and Kakata in Liberia to examine the...
Liberia
News and Press ReleaseLiberia : Non-essential missions on hold
AFR/727, IHA/807 New York, 8 October (Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) -- Although the situation in Monrovia has stabilized, there are reports of fighting between Government...
Somalia
News and Press ReleaseEmergency Relief Coordinator demands protection for civilians, aid workers in Somalia
AFR/720, IHA/804 (Reissued as received.) NEW YORK, 7 October (Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) -- Jan Egeland, the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, expressed his sorrow today...
Sudan
News and Press ReleaseHumanitarian situation worsens in Greater Darfur Region of western Sudan
AFR/721, IHA/805 (Reissued as received.) NEW YORK, 7 October (Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) -- The humanitarian situation in the Greater Darfur Region of western Sudan...
Liberia
News and Press ReleaseRenewed unrest in Liberia slows humanitarian aid as thousands flee towards Guinea
AFR/717, IHA/803 NEW YORK, 2 October 2003 - Violence resurfaced in Monrovia yesterday after a period of relative calm. Outside Monrovia, thousands of people are reportedly fleeing central Liberia for...
Burundi
News and Press ReleaseWorld Food Programme brings aid to Burundi civilians displaced in clashes between rebel groups
AFR/716, IHA/802 NEW YORK, 2 October (OCHA) - Following two weeks of fighting between two rival rebel groups that has led to the displacement of an estimated 50,000 civilians in the east and north...
Liberia
News and Press ReleaseAssessment mission returns from Zwedru, Liberia
AFR/713, IHA/801 NEW YORK, 30 September (OCHA) -- An inter-agency mission returned to Monrovia from Zwedru via Guiglo, Côte d'Ivoire, over the weekend after assessing the humanitarian situation of...
Sudan
News and Press ReleaseSudan: Special Envoy to brief press on recent mission
(New York: 29 September) - Ambassador Tom Eric Vraalsen, the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Humanitarian Needs for Sudan, will brief the New York Headquarters press corps today on his...
Liberia
News and Press ReleaseDespite Liberia's peace agreement, rights violations persist in troubled 'pockets of insecurity', says UN Coordinator
AFR/708, IHA/800 MONROVIA, 25 September (Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) -- The Special Humanitarian Coordinator for Liberia, Ross Mountain, today expressed his concern for...