Press Release AFR/938 IHA/909 |
Humanitarian issues
Press Release AFR/935 IHA/908 |
HUMANITARIAN PARTNERS RACE TO DELIVER AID TO DARFUR AS RAINY SEASON APPROACHES
NEW YORK, 19 May (Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) –- As the June rainy season approaches in Darfur, United Nations humanitarian agencies and their non-governmental organization (NGO) partners are racing to bring aid to people in need.
Press Release AFR/933 IHA/907 |
UNITED NATIONS CONFIRMS 39 DEAD IN ATTACK ON CAMP NEAR GULU, UGANDA
GENEVA/NEW YORK, 18 May (OCHA) –- Thirty-nine people have been confirmed dead and 17 injured after an attack by the rebel group known as the Lord's Resistance Army on the Pagak camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in northern Uganda.
Press Release AFR/927 IHA/905 |
BURUNDI: NUMBER OF INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS IN CAMPS HALVED
NEW YORK, 14 May (OCHA) –- There are as half as many people in camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Burundi as there were two years ago, according to a new survey led by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). The results of the survey show that the number of the displaced dropped from 281,000 in 2002 to some 140,000 today.
Press Release AFR/924 IHA/904 |
UN RESPONDS TO FLOODING IN ZAMBIA
(Reissued as received.)
NEW YORK, 10 May (OCHA) –- The United Nations and other humanitarian agencies are responding to humanitarian needs created by floods in Zambia that now affect more than 20,000 people.
Press Release AFR/920 IHA/903 |
CONDITIONS FOR CONGOLESE EXPELLED FROM ANGOLA STABILIZING
NEW YORK, 7 May (OCHA) -- The humanitarian situation of tens of thousands of Congolese expelled from neighbouring Angola over these past few weeks appears to be stabilizing. The number of expellees entering into one of the main entry points has decreased from a rate of hundreds to dozens of persons crossing each day.
Press Release AFR/919 IHA/901 |
MASSIVE DISPLACEMENT OF POPULATION REPORTED IN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
(Translated from French.)
Press Release IHA/902 |
UN UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS VISITS COLOMBIA
BOGOTA, 5 May (Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) -- Jan Egeland, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, begins an official visit to Colombia today.
Press Release AFR/916 IHA/899 |
SUDAN high-level humanitarian MISSION continues
NEW YORK, 29 April (UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) –- The high-level humanitarian mission led by World Food Programme Executive Director James Morris continued today, breaking up into two teams in order to cover more of Darfur.
Press Release AFR/917 IHA/900 |
OCHA URGES RESPONSE TO NEEDS OF VICTIMS OF SEXUAL ABUSE
IN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
NEW YORK, 29 April (OCHA) -– The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in the Democratic Republic of Congo is calling for an increase in the capacity of health partners already working on the ground and the financing of new partners with expertise in sexual violence and the prevention and transmission of HIV/AIDS.