Informes

U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUREAU FOR DEMOCRACY, CONFLICT, AND HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE (DCHA) OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA)Note: The last Liberia Situation Report was dated August 13, 2003. Background Liberia has been marked by intermittent civil war since…

Geneva, August 19, 2003 - The signing of the peace agreement yesterday (August 18), ending hostilities between Liberia's warring groups, has already seen an improvement in the humanitarian response. The global alliance Action by Churches Together (ACT) International's members reporting directly…

Security In the meantime access to the rest of the country remains very difficult. On Tuesday morning 19 August 2003, a joint UN security mission left for Bo Waterside on the border between Sierra Leone and Liberia, to assess the…

There were five activities for the day namely 1. WHO Staff meeting 2. A WATSAN Monitoring Team Meeting 3. UN Mission to LURD-held areas, South-Western Liberia 4. Assessment of Data on the Cholera situation 5. Humanitarian Coordination Meeting WHO Staff meeting There was a WHO normal…

Madrid, 19 de agosto de 2003 - Tras varios días de espera y preparación el equipo de Cáritas Internacional que evaluará la situación en Liberia ha llegado a Monrovia. Con el equipo de Emergencias de Cáritas Internacional, ha llegado el…

Security The Port of Monrovia was handed over to the ECOMIL forces on Thursday, 14 August 2003. The LURD forces withdrew 4 kilometres up to St. Paul's bridge. Though they are expected to move up to Po River. The process…

Security The long awaited departure of Charles Taylor occurred on 11 August 2003. He appointed his Vice President, Moses Blah, to be the 22nd President of Liberia. Taylor flew into exile to Abuja in Nigeria and the Nigerian military have…

Monrovia, 13th August 2003 - Thanks to the Italian Co-operation and WFP-UNHRD (UN Humanitarian Response Depot) located in Brindisi (Italy), the first humanitarian flight coming from Italy has been organised and basic items have been delivered and stored in the…

Courtesy translation Rome, 13 August 2003 - A special flight dispatched by the Cooperazione Italiana landed in Monrovia yesterday with 200,000 euro's worth of emergency aid destined to meet the basic needs of the civil war-battered population, in particular its…

International agency Oxfam will fly a plane with $144,000 US worth of desperately-needed emergency aid supplies from London to Liberia at 9pm GMT, to arrive in the capital Monrovia on Wednesday morning. The plane will be loaded with equipment to help…