UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL MEETS UGANDAN PRESIDENT OVER TRUCE WITH NORTHERN REBELS

KAMPALA, 8 December (OCHA) -- Jan Egeland, United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator and Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, met with President Yoweri Museveni in Kampala yesterday.

UN BRINGS AID TO STORM-STRUCK PHILIPPINES

 

NEW YORK, 6 December (UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) -- In the aftermath of a series of storms that pounded the Philippines last week, UN agencies are working together to respond to needs created by the disaster.

SECRETARY-GENERAL PROFOUNDLY SADDENED BY LOSS OF LIFE, DESTRUCTION

 

WROUGHT BY POWERFUL STORMS IN PHILIPPINES

 

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

PANAMA: UN WARNS FLOODING COULD CAUSE FOOD SHORTAGES

 

NEW YORK, 1 December (OCHA) -- The damage caused by recent flooding in Panama’s DarienProvince could cause severe food shortages in the next seven to eight months, United Nations humanitarian agencies report.

Special Representative of Secretary-General deeply

 

concerned at escalating violence in Darfur

 

Following is the text of a statement by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sudan on the latest upsurge of violence in Darfur:

UNITED NATIONS LAUNCHES INITIATIVE TO FACILITATE ASSESSMENT

OF HUMANITARIAN IMPACTS OF SANCTIONS

 

NEW YORK 19 November (OCHA) -- Today the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is launching a new initiative to assess the potential humanitarian implications of sanctions.

UN AID AGENCIES LAUNCH APPEAL FOR DROUGHT-STRICKEN BOLIVIA

 

NEW YORK, 16 November (Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) -- United Nations humanitarian agencies are appealing for some $1.8 million for programmes to bring emergency aid to 180,000 people in Bolivia’s drought-stricken El Chaco region over the next seven months.

‘International solidarity is crucial’, Secretary-General SAYS

at launch of Humanitarian Appeal for 2005

 

Following is the text of remarks, as delivered by Secretary-General Kofi Annan today at the launch of the Consolidated Humanitarian Appeal for 2005:

We are here today to sound an alarm on behalf of 26 million people struggling to survive the ravages of war and other emergencies.

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.