Informes

Somalia marks International Peace Day UNICEF Somalia Representative Jesper Morch joined on September 21 with Somaliland administration officials to celebrate the International Day of Peace in Hargeisa, Somaliland. The main festivities were held at Hargeisa stadium, which had previously been rehabilitated…

On 29 and 30 September, the Red Crescent Society of Djibouti and the ICRC carried out a one-off distribution of emergency relief supplies for some 9,000 people stranded at the Aour-Aoussa refugee camp about 100 kilometres south-west of the…

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Background: The assessment was carried out in an environment with economic conditions worsening, the country experiencing food shortages due to droughts and other factors and hyperinflation standing at 455.6 percent in September 2003. Survey Design: A livelihoods based structured questionnaires…

Appeal No. 33/2002; Operations Update no. 4 Appeal launched on 03 December 2002 for CHF 7,865,000 (USD 5,282,274 or EUR 5,322,949) for 9 months for 41,500 beneficiaries. Budget was revised to CHF 8,061,000. This Update extends the operation until June 2004,…

Appeal No. 06/2003; Interim Final Report Appeal launched on 20 February 2003 for CHF 353,000 (USD 259,000 or EUR 240,000) for 3 months for 15,000 beneficiaries. Disaster Relief Emergency Funds (DREF) allocated: CHF 50,000 (reimbursed) Period covered: June to August…

AND MORE UN Secretary General, Mr. Kofi Annan appointed Zambia's former President, Dr. Kenneth Kaunda, as co-patron of the United Nations Commission for HIV/AIDS and Governance in Africa (CHGA). Inflation in Zimbabwe hit 426.6 per cent in August, according to the government's…

News No. 03/111 Some 1,000 residents and 1,200 internally displaced persons living in the war-torn village of Endembastifanos no longer need to walk for five hours to fetch drinking water. Now they can get safe water from two public fountains…

Appeal No. 28/02; Appeal launched on 8 November 2002 for CHF 16,163,000 (USD 10,802,700 or EUR 11.010, 218) for 14 months for 120,500 beneficiaries. Budget was revised in July 2003 to CHF 13,460,853 (USD 9,951,000 / EUR…

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 August 27, 2003. Background According to USAID’s Famine Early Warning…

Summary According to the Joint Technical Task Force (JTTF) Interim Assessment report of August 2003, out of the total food aid requirement of 476,000 MT in 2003, to date only about 266,000 MT have been committed. Of…