Press releases and statements

An account of a media mission and its findings in the drought affected country Dushanbe - September 2000 A group of some twenty journalists, representing major international media, arrived in...

Islamabad (Office of the United Nations Co-ordinator for Afghanistan), 29 September 2000 - The United Nations today called on all parties to the conflict in northeast Afghanistan to ensure the...

Dushanbe 18 September 2000 The United Nations yesterday appealed for an additional US $ 76.6 million to address the most urgent needs of the drought-affected population of Tajikistan. Three million...

A United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination (UNDAC) mission has been mobilized for Cambodia to support the United Nations Resident Coordinator and the Government in responding to the...

Islamabad (Office of the United Nations Co-ordinator for Afghanistan), 15 September 2000: Assessment of the numbers and possible needs of families displaced by fighting in Afghanistan's north-eastern...

In response to the drought in the eastern half of Georgia, the UN, donors and the Ministry of Food and Agriculture have elaborated a programme to address the consequent needs. The programme will...

Islamabad (Office of the United Nations Co-ordinator for Afghanistan), 1 September 2000 -- The Mine Action Programme for Afghanistan today began cutting down its operations by 50% due to a major...

LUANDA, 31 August: - The United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in Angola today expressed concern over what the UN described as the "alarming humanitarian conditions" in the municipality of Luau,...

LUANDA, 31 August: - The United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in Angola today welcomed the action taken by the Provincial Government of Huambo Province in facilitating over recent days the...

71 % des personnes qui meurent chaque année du paludisme dans le monde sont des enfants de moins de 5 ans et la malaria représente 10 à 13 % des causes de mortalité maternelle. L'Afrique compte 86%...