SECRETARY-GENERAL SEEKS $1.7 billion for ‘FORGOTTEN CRISES’

NEW YORK, 11 November (OCHA) -- The United Nations Secretary-General has requested $1.7 billion to help people survive a web of forgotten humanitarian crises, mainly in Africa.  "We are here today to sound an alarm on behalf of

26 million people struggling to survive the ravages of war and other emergencies", Kofi Annan told North American, European and Japanese donor Governments in New York today.

UNITED NATIONS ASSESSES URANIUM MINE IN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

GENEVA/NAIROBI/NEW YORK, 9 November (OCHA) -- A United Nations assessment at the Shinkolobwe Uranium Mine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo found high risks of mine collapse and potential chronic exposure to ionising radiation, and concluded that the mine must remain closed.  The assessment followed an earlier mine collapse in July 2004 that killed eight people.

United Nations humanitarian agencies make progress in Haiti, despite obstacles

NEW YORK, 9 November (OCHA) -- United Nations agencies operating in Haiti report that the humanitarian situation in Haiti’s north-western city of Gonaïves is improving though serious concerns remain.

FIGHTING IN CÔTE D’IVOIRE JEOPARDIZES HUMANITARIAN AID

 

NEW YORK, 4 November(UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) -- An eruption of fighting around the Ivorian city of Bouaké, some 300 km north of Abidjan, threatens to cut thousands of people off from urgently needed humanitarian aid.  Due to tensions across Côte d’Ivoire, United Nations humanitarian workers are suspending their activities throughout the country today.

number of darfur people in critical need of relief has risen

 

by 10 per cent, according to new United Nations report

 

CÔTE D’IVOIRE FACES RISE IN POLIO

 

(Issued on 15 October 2004)

UN organizations say current violence is pushing Gaza into humanitarian crisis

JERUSALEM, 5 October (Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) -- Twelve United Nations organizations* working in Gaza today stated that the ongoing violence on top of the sharply deteriorating humanitarian situation this year is pushing the Palestinian population into a deep crisis. 

UNITED NATIONS LAUNCHES HUMANITARIAN APPEALS FOR STORM-RAVAGED HAITI, GRENADA

TROPICAL STORM JEANNE CONTINUES TO POUND HAITI

 

NEW YORK, 27 September (OCHA) -- Storm-battered Haiti continues to feel the effects of a series of devastating storms, the latest being tropical storm Jeanne.

Haiti: Human Disaster Is Preventable, says Chief of Disaster Reduction Secretariat

(Reissued as received.)