HEAD OF UN HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS OFFICE VISITS NORTHERN UGANDA,

SAYS ‘DEEPLY SHOCKED’ BY ‘WAR AGAINST CHILDREN’

FOOD SECURITY REMAINS CRITICAL IN PARTS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA

SAYS UN HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS OFFICE

DISPLACEMENT RISES, ACCESS DECLINES IN SUDAN, SAYS UN HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS OFFICE

HUMANITARIAN EFFORT LAUNCHED FOR INDONESIA FLOOD VICTIMS

NEW YORK, 4 November (OCHA) -- The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has deployed a two-person team to the Langkat district of North Sumatra, Indonesia.  The team will help local authorities coordinate emergency response, assess needs and plan assistance in response to the flash floods that hit the area in recent days.

THOUSANDS DISPLACED AS NEW FIGHTING ERUPTS BETWEEN CONGOLESE

MILITIA AND RWANDAN REBEL GROUP

NEW YORK, 4 November (OCHA) -- Fighting that erupted on Friday between the Mayi-Mayi militia and a Rwandan rebel group in South Kivu Province, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, has resulted in the displacement of thousands of civilians.

VAST HUMANITARIAN NEEDS FOUND IN SOUTH KIVU PROVINCE,

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

NEW YORK, 31 October (OCHA) -- A recent humanitarian needs assessment mission conducted jointly by several United Nations agencies has found widespread humanitarian needs in the region from Uvira to Fizi in the South Kivu Province of eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.

UNITED NATIONS RESIDENT COORDINATOR DEEPLY CONCERNED ABOUT DETERIORATION

OF HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IN SOOL PLATEAU, SOMALIA

NAIROBI, 30 October (OCHA) -– United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia Maxwell Gaylard is deeply concerned that the potential failure of the current short season Deyr rains in the Sool Plateau of Somalia could precipitate a humanitarian disaster affecting 15,500 pastoralist families.

EMERGENCY RELIEF COORDINATOR ADDRESSES MADRID DONOR CONFERENCE ON IRAQ

DEATH BY MALARIA THREATENS 15 MILLION ETHIOPIANS AS UN AGENCIES

APPEAL FOR $5.8 MILLION TO AVERT MAJOR EPIDEMIC

LIBERIANS DISPLACED BY FIGHTING CONTINUE TO STREAM INTO CAMPS,

UN INTER-AGENCY NEEDS-ASSESSMENT TEAM FINDS