Press releases and statements

(New York: 8 August 2003) United Nations agencies and their non-governmental organization (NGO) partners are responding to needs created by heavy flooding in northwestern Sudan. Floodwaters from the...

I. SUMMARY The Regional Humanitarian Meeting for West Africa, convened by the Secretary General's Humanitarian Envoy for the Cote d'Ivoire Crises, and hosted by UNICEF, was held in Dakar from 17-18...

AFR/686, IHA/792 United Nations humanitarian agencies requested $69 million in emergency assistance for Liberia this morning at Headquarters, with Secretary-General Kofi Annan saying, "The logic of...

(New York: 5 August 2003): Tomorrow at 10 a.m., the United Nations will launch the Revised Humanitarian Appeal for Liberia. The original 2003 Consolidated Appeal for Liberia, launched in November...

INTRODUCTION 1. A fact-finding UN inter-agency Mission was fielded on 1st August 2003 to assess the preliminary damage caused by the flooding of Kassala city by the river Gash. The mission conducted...

(New York: 31 July 2003) - Acute shortages of fuel and food continue to drive up the prices of basic commodities in Liberia, hindering aid operations and compounding the critical food situation. A...

Geneva/Johannesburg: July 29, 2003: The United Nations today launched a 2003/04 Regional Consolidated Appeal (CAP) for southern Africa to provide life-saving assistance for 6.5 million people...

(New York: 29 July 2003) - With the capture of Buchanan, Liberia's second-largest city, by rebel forces, thousands more Liberians have been displaced. Since fighting between government forces and...

(New York: 25 July 2003) - Fighting continued in Monrovia this morning, with mortar rounds landing near a UN compound. With Monrovia's main water supply station at Wide Plains destroyed in recent...

AFR/672, IHA/790 (Received from UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.) FREETOWN, 22 July - Marc Destanne de Bernis, the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in Liberia expresses...