Press releases and statements

(New York: 4 March 2003) - The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Angola, where the UN runs one of the largest relief operations in the world, reports that...

(United Nations, 24 February 2002): In Zambia, in collaboration with its non-Government implementing partners, the United Nations has delivered over 50,000 metric tons of UN-provided food, and around...

(United Nations: 24 February 2003): As continuing instability limits their access to people in need, humanitarian agencies in Côte d'Ivoire are receiving consistent reports of abuses against...

(United Nations, 24 February 2003): In an effort to assist more than two million persons displaced by the on-going armed conflict in Colombia, the United Nations last week presented donors with a...

Geneva, 21 February 2003 - An UN inter-agency mission visited the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) from 26 January to 8 February 2003, to look into the challenges facing Internally Displaced People...

The Joint UNEP/OCHA Environment Unit is currently mobilizing an urgent environmental assessment mission to Kosovo and to Serbia and Montenegro in connection with a spill of phenol to the Ibar River,...

Moscow, 13 February 2003. - The United Nations agencies in the Russian Federation have decided to suspend for one day their humanitarian programmes in the North Caucasus in solidarity with the head...

United Nations, 12 February 2003 Since the signing of the Linas-Marcoussis Accord in Paris, a steady stream of protests and riots have rocked Abidjan, while on Tuesday 4 February, fighting in the...

AFR/561, IHA/759 NEW YORK, 12 February (OCHA) -- In Uganda, a persistent lack of security and funding shortfalls are placing already vulnerable populations in greater danger. The situation in...

BAMAKO, 10 February (OCHA) -- The United Nations Humanitarian Envoy for the Crisis in Côte d'Ivoire, Carolyn McAskie, concluded today a five-country West African tour, including visits to Ghana,...