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.

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.

MASSIVE DISPLACEMENT OF POPULATION REPORTED IN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

(Translated from French.)

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.

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.

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.

HUMANITARIAN AGENCIES RESPOND TO HEALTH NEEDS OF BLAST VICTIMS

IN DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA

New York, 29 April (OCHA) -- United Nations humanitarian agencies are stepping up their efforts to meet the health needs of people affected by a massive blast in Ryongchon, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, last week.

CHERNOBYL:  NEEDS Remain GREAT 18 YEARS AFTER NUCLEAR ACCIDENT

NEW YORK, 26 April (OCHA) -- On the eighteenth anniversary of the accident at the Chernobyl power plant, Jan Egeland, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, is urging the international community not to turn its back on the people still affected by the world’s worst nuclear accident.