Press releases and statements

(New York: 26 August 2003): Monrovia is still relatively calm, despite lat week's heavy looting of the Parliament and the Judiciary buildings situated between Presidential Palace and Police...

Abidjan, le 26 août 2003 - La zone de l'ouest a été particulièrement touchée par le conflit armé et les confrontations inter communautaires qui ont déchiré le tissu social et remis en cause la...

Abidjan, 26 August 2003 - The western region of Côte d'Ivoire has been particularly affected by the armed conflict and inter-community clashes that have torn apart the social fabric and called into...

(New York: 19 August 2003) - The situation in Monrovia continues to improve, though great needs created by months of conflict remain. UN humanitarian agencies are steadily increasing the numbers of...

(New York: 18 August 2003) - The signing of an agreement on humanitarian access is a hopeful sign that it will be possible to meet the needs of Liberia's long-suffering population-many of whom have...

(New York: 14 August 2003) - In a ceremony today in Monrovia, Liberians United for Reconcilaitaion and Democracy (LURD) rebels handed over control of Monrovia's port to peacekeepers from The Economic...

(New York: 13 August 2003) - In war-ravaged Monrovia today, UN humanitarian agencies continued to scale up their operations in Liberia's capital city. Severe food, water, and health care shortages...

Moscow, 12 August 2003. -- A year has passed since the abduction in Dagestan on 12 August 2002 of Arjan Erkel, Head of the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) mission in the republic. On this sad...

(New York: 12 August 2003) - An inter-agency team of UN humanitarian agencies team arrived today to accelerate UN Humanitarian operations as a relative calm came over Liberia's war-ravaged capital...

(New York: 8 August 2003) - Ms. Carolyn McAskie, the United Nations Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator, is traveling to the region today on mission to strengthen UN relief efforts in Liberia. When...