DESERT LOCUST:  FAO RECOMMENDS CONTINUING CONTROL ACTIONS, VIGILANCE

Twelve Million Treated Since Beginning of Upsurge

(Reissued as received.)

ROME, 7 January (FAO) -- Despite recent improvements, the desert locust situation remains serious in Western Africa where vigilance and intensive control operations are still needed, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

PRESS STATEMENT ON CENTRALAFRICANREPUBLIC BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

Following is today’s statement to the press on the Central African Republic by Security Council President César Mayoral (Argentina):

Secretary-General welcomes peace pact in senegal

 

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan on 31 December 2004:

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES 31 DECEMBER AGREEMENT BY PARTIES IN SUDAN,

LOOKS FORWARD TO SIGNING OF COMPREHENSIVE PEACE AGREEMENT

 

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

ETHIOPIA, UN, HUMANITARIAN PARTNERS APPEAL FOR ASSISTANCE FOR 2005

 

ADDIS ABABA, 23 December (United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) -- The Ethiopian Government, the United Nations and humanitarian partners today appealed for 387,482 tonnes of food valued at approximately $159 million for an estimated 2.2 million needy people, and $112 million of non-food assistance to meet emergency humanitarian needs in 2005.

Press Statement on Sudan by President of Security Council

Following is today’s statement to the press on the Sudan by Security Council President Abdallah Baali (Algeria):

The Security Council members held consultations on the situation in the Sudan.  They are deeply concerned at the serious degradation of the security and humanitarian situation in Darfur and at the repeated violations of the ceasefire.

SECURITY COUNCIL PRESS STATEMENT ON ETHIOPIA AND ERITREA

The following press statement on the peace process between Ethiopia and Eritrea was delivered today by Security Council President Abdallah Baali (Algeria):

Members of the Security Council welcome the 25 November announcement by the Ethiopian Government of a five-point peace plan.

Members of the Security Council welcome Eritrea’s continued acceptance of the Boundary Commission decision.

MASSIVE DISPLACEMENT IN EASTERN Democratic Republic of Congo

 

NEW YORK, 19 December (OCHA) -- Fighting between armed groups and attacks against civilians have caused tens of thousands of civilians to flee their homes in the territory of Lubero, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, over the past few days.

Un aid agencies say Humanitarian Needs Growing in North Côte d’Ivoire

 

NEW YORK, 17 December (OCHA) -- Recent assessments undertaken by United Nations aid agencies in Côte d’Ivoire reveal that humanitarian needs are growing in the north of the country.

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES AGREEMENT REACHED BY IVORIAN PARTIES

Following is a statement attributable to the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan: