Press releases and statements

i. Introductory note Thanks to everyone for their valuable inputs on how to make this newsletter useful. The second bulletin was delayed by vacations. In general, we hope to produce a bulletin once...

Kinshasa, le 20 août 2002 - La situation humanitaire dans le chef-lieu de l'Ituri, au nord-est de la République Démocratique du Congo, reste préoccupante. On estime à 10.000 le nombre de familles...

Moscow, 14 August, 2002 - The United Nations joins Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in strongly condemning the abduction of MSF's Head of Mission for Dagestan, Mr Arjan Erkel, in Makhachkala, the...

Kinshasa, le 13 août 2002 - Les affrontements qui se déroulent depuis le 06 août dernier à Bunia ont sérieusement aggravé la situation humanitaire qui prévaut déjà dans la ville, chef-lieu du...

A team made by GVO scientists (Kaseraka Mahinda and François Lukaya) and UN-OCHA consultant volcanologist (Jacques Durieux) has made a survey trip to the presently active eruption site of volcano...

OBSERVATOIRE VOLCANOLOGIQUE DE GOMA CENTRE DE RECHERCHE EN SCIENCES NATURELLES(CRSN) DEPARTEMENT DE GEEOPHYSIQUE/LWIRO , BUKAVU REPUBLIQUE DEMOCRATIQUE DU CONGO(RDC) Diffusion: Synthèse hebdomadaire...

Nairobi (9 August 2002) - The United Nations strongly condemns the continuing abduction of national project staff member Abdulkadir Mohamed Abikar -- currently being held in Mogadishu, Somalia -- and...

I have just completed a five-day mission to the DPRK accompanied by senior representatives of the two leading humanitarian agencies in DPRK, Mr. John Powell, the World Food Programme's Director for...

BEIJING - The operating environment for aid agencies in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea must improve markedly if the international community is to continue to provide the substantial...

Moscow, 29 July 2002. In light of the kidnapping in the Republic of Chechnya of Ms Nina Davidovich, a Russian aid worker heading a non-governmental organisation, Druzhba, the United Nations agencies...