Reports

The conflict in Côte d'Ivoire has the potential to spark a serious regional crisis, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies has warned, as senior Red Cross officials meet to discuss a response to the wave…

Launched on 4 December 2002 for 1,314,000 for 6 weeks. The Programme has been extended for 3 months (until 15 May, 2003) and a budget revision is under consideration (to be reflected in the next Operations Update). Disaster Relief Emergency…

Text: Kent Page, Regional Communication Officer, UNICEF Western & Central Africa Region Pantanloana Satellite School, Gnagna Province, Burkina-Faso, 14 January 2003 - Today has not only been an historic day in the life of Burkina-Faso politics, but it also opened…

Spokesperson: Jean-Philippe Chauzy C=D4TE D'IVOIRE-ASSISTANCE TO THIRD COUNTRY NATIONALS - IOM is continuing to assist Guineans and third country nationals who fled war-torn Danané and Man regions in western Côte d'Ivoire and who are stranded in and around Nzérékoré…

Conakry This is a summary of the humanitarian situation at the border between Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire. Figures to date According to Guinean Government records, some 28,000 Guinean nationals were registered by Guinean border authorities at official border points arriving from Cote…

NATIONS UNIES Bureau de Coordination des Affaires Humanitaires (OCHA) Réseaux d'Information Régionaux Intégré (IRIN) ABIDJAN, 23 décembre (IRIN) - Environ 28 000 ressortissants guinéens ont été enregistrés aux points frontaliers officiels en Guinée après leur arrivée de Côte d'Ivoire entre le…

WMO-No. 685 For use of the information media Not an official record Geneva, 20 December 2002 - Today the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the Italian Government signed an agreement at WMO Headquarters aimed at assisting the least developed countries of the…

NATIONS UNIES Bureau de Coordination des Affaires Humanitaires (OCHA) Réseaux d'Information Régionaux Intégré (IRIN) ABIDJAN, 20 décembre (IRIN) - Le Comité International de la Croix-Rouge (CICR) a exprimé jeudi sa profonde préoccupation devant le nombre des victimes civiles dans le conflit…

Text: Kent Page, Regional Communication Officer, Western & Central Africa Region Ouagadougou Returnee Transit Site, Ouagadougou, Burkina-Faso, 19 December 2002 - It's an eerie, disturbing, symbolic sight: a sea of thousands of large plastic sacks, wooden chairs, plastic buckets, thin mattresses…

The following article is part of an IRIN webspecial on the crisis in Cote d'Ivoire. The full collection of stories, resource guides and web links can be accessed at: http://www.irinnews.org/webspecials/CI_Crisis/ OUAGADOUGOU, 4 December (IRIN) Things had not been easy for…