UN EMERGENCY RELIEF COORDINATOR SADDENED BY DEATHS

OF AID WORKERS KILLED BY GUNMEN IN SOMALILAND

NEW YORK,21 October (OCHA) -- In a statement today, Jan Egeland, the United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator, expressed profound sorrow over the killing by unknown gunmen of two aid workers in the town of Sheikh, in northern Somalia.  He also extended his condolences to the bereaved families of the deceased.

UN UNDERTAKES FIRST HUMANITARIAN MISSION TO VOINJAMA, LIBERIA, IN FOUR YEARS

LIBERIA:  HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE SCALING UP

DISPLACED PEOPLE CONTINUE TO ARRIVE IN TOTOTA, LIBERIA

NEW YORK, 9 October (Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) -- On Tuesday, 7 October, an inter-agency mission visited Totota and Kakata in Liberia to examine the relocation of internally displaced persons in irregular shelters and assess new population movements into Totota.

LIBERIA:  NON-ESSENTIAL MISSIONS ON HOLD

New York, 8 October (Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) -- Although the situation in Monrovia has stabilized, there are reports of fighting between Government troops and rebel factions in Nimba and Bong Mines in north/central Liberia.  Agencies are exercising caution in operating outside of Monrovia, and non-essential missions are on hold, for now. 

EMERGENCY RELIEF COORDINATOR DEMANDS PROTECTION FOR CIVILIANS, AID WORKERS IN SOMALIA

(Reissued as received.)

HUMANITARIAN SITUATION WORSENS IN GREATER DARFUR REGION OF WESTERN SUDAN

(Reissued as received.)

WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME BRINGS AID TO BURUNDI CIVILIANS

DISPLACED IN CLASHES BETWEEN REBEL GROUPS

RENEWED UNREST IN LIBERIA SLOWS HUMANITARIAN AID

AS THOUSANDS FLEE TOWARDS GUINEA

NEW YORK, 2 October 2003 –- Violence resurfaced in Monrovia yesterday after a period of relative calm.