Informes

United Nations Regional Inter-Agency Coordination Support Office for the Special Envoy for Humanitarian Needs in Southern Africa Bi-monthly Update RIACSO provides support to the national efforts in addressing the Southern African crisis and ensures cohesion and complementarity of…

By Andrea Wahl, Program Officer As my commuter plane touches down in Huambo, the second largest city in Angola located in an inland agricultural area some 500 km southeast of the capital Luanda, I am struck by the similarities to…

Wednesday, 8 October 2003: UNDP, with support from Sweden, will work with communities in five countries on innovative ways, such as using wind and solar energy, to improve water supplies and sanitation. The small grant Community Water Initiative, launched at the…

Routine immunisation programme planned The Angolan government is working with UNICEF and the World Health Organisation (WHO) on a programme designed to greatly cut the country's horrific child mortality rate by routinely immunising children against killer diseases. The goal of the…

Alternative solutions to improve coordination and emergency action in Ethiopia Business as usual for coordination and response mechanisms would not have been enough to meet the needs of the 13.2 million affected people in the country. The nutrition and health…

NEWS Nutritional Situation Slightly Improved Since August But Still Nearly 3,000 Severely Malnourished Children In TFCs Countrywide The highest number of malnourished children residing in therapeutic feeding cent-res is still found in SNNPR in particular in Sidama and Wolayita Zones. Food Security…

Johannesburg - Serious funding shortages are threatening to undermine efforts by the United Nations to save the lives and livelihoods of millions of people in southern Africa as well as to destroy the fragile gains made over the last…

World Vision Malawi has secured some 450, 000 Euro (more than K55 million) for a water and sanitation project, to ensure that some 18,750 families in the remote southern Malawi districts of Nsanje and Mwanza have access to clean…

GENEVA, Oct 2 (UNHCR) -- The UN refugee agency today appealed for $16.6 million in urgent funds to avert a humanitarian disaster on the Chad-Sudan border, where more than 65,000 Sudanese refugees have been living in desperate conditions for…

U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUREAU FOR DEMOCRACY, CONFLICT, AND HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE (DCHA) OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA) Note: This Fact Sheet updates USAID/OFDA Ethiopia Fact Sheet #15, dated September 27, 2003. Background According to USAID's Famine Early Warning…