Informes

The Global IDP Database of the Norwegian Refugee Council has now posted a new country profile on internal displacement in DR Congo. A summary is presented below. The complete profile can be accessed at www.idpproject.org (could you please create the…

A. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The West African sub-region, including Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Côte d'Ivoire, continues to be battered by escalating political and economic instability. The sub-region is at great risk of degenerating into a massive complex…

NATIONS UNIES Bureau de coordination des Affaires Humanitaires - IRIN Pour l'Afrique Centrale et de l'Est Tel: +254 2 622147 Fax: +254 2 622129 e-mail: irin@ocha.unon.org BURUNDI: De nouveaux affrontements à Bujumbura Tandis que les pourparlers de paix se poursuivent dans la ville tanzanienne d'Arusha,…

UNITED NATIONS Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network for Central and Eastern Africa Tel: +254 2 622147 Fax: +254 2 622129 e-mail: irin@ocha.unon.org BURUNDI: More fighting reported in Bujumbura As peace talks continued in the Tanzanian town of Arusha, renewed fighting…

A high-level United Nations relief official will visit the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) next month to seek guarantees from Congolese authorities on access to vulnerable populations, as well as protection for civilians and relief personnel. "One of the…

1. EMERGENCY OVERVIEW AND RECENT DEVELOPMENTS In Burundi, over 1.2 million people (of a population of 6 million) have been internally or externally displaced. Children and women are the worst affected, constituting approximately half of the 500,000…

The prospects for resolution of the humanitarian and political crisis in Burundi continue to look very bleak. There is an opportunity, however, at this moment for the international community to help save lives in the Northeastern…

KISSIDOUGOU, Guinea - The first humanitarian convoy since last autumn to deliver aid to tens of thousands of stranded refugees in the beleaguered Parrot's Beak region of southwestern Guinea arrived in the town of Temessadou today (Monday). The 11-truck convoy,…

MARGARET NOVICKI - CHIEF, PUBLIC INFORMATION SECTION AND MAJOR M. M. YERIMA - MILITARY SPOKESMAN LIBERIA ENDORSES UNHCR EFFORTS UNHCR has received the crucial endorsement of Liberian President Charles Taylor for the agency's efforts to provide safe access and…

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesman Kris Janowski (to whom quoted text may be attributed) at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. 1. Liberia / Guinea / Sierra Leone UN High…