Press releases and statements

Yesterday two humanitarian assessment teams returned to Khartoum, Sudan after having completed the first phase of an ongoing inter-agency assessment of humanitarian needs in the areas of the Nuba...

UNITED NATIONS OFFICE FOR THE COORDINATION OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS Advocacy & External Relations Unit Tel.: 1-212-963-4832/2380; Fax: 1-212-963-1312 Humanitarian agencies in Burundi are reporting...

Advocacy & External Relations Unit Tel.: 1-212-963-4832/2380; Fax: 1-212-963-1312 OFFICE FOR THE COORDINATION OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS Humanitarian situation: UN humanitarian agencies currently in...

Fighting in Guinea-Bissau broke out on 7 June 1998, causing immediate displacement of hundreds of thousands of persons. During successive rounds of fighting over the course of eleven months, an...

Advocacy & External Relations Unit Tel.: 1-212-963-4832/2380; Fax: 1-212-963-1312 OFFICE FOR THE COORDINATION OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS Humanitarian situation: OCHA has received reports of attacks on...

The Secretary-General notes with gratitude the generous assistance provided by Governments, non-governmental organizations and private individuals in response to the devastation caused by the...

DPA/OCHA Joint Statement The Secretary-General is very concerned about the clashes since the last weekend in Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo, between Congolese rebel factions, with...

(Islamabad: 10 August) The United Nations has begun providing limited food assistance to civilians displaced by the recent fighting around the front lines north of Kabul. So far, approximately five...

Press Release IHA/684 - 19990726 GENEVA/NEW YORK, 26 July (OCHA/UNHCR) -- Twelve United Nations humanitarian agencies and the International Organization for Migration today urged donors to continue...

The Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Sergio Vieira de Mello noted with great satisfaction the successful completion yesterday of an UN-led...