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Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) Allocated: CHF 10,000 The Federation's mission is to improve the lives of vulnerable people by mobilizing the power of humanity. It is the world's largest humanitarian organization and its millions of volunteers are active in over…

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 situation report was dated March 25, 2003. BACKGROUND The Tutsi minority, which represents 14 percent of Burundi's 6.85…

AFR/686, IHA/792 United Nations humanitarian agencies requested $69 million in emergency assistance for Liberia this morning at Headquarters, with Secretary-General Kofi Annan saying, "The logic of this emergency appeal is simple: without urgent action more lives will be lost." In a message…

In the past couple of weeks renewed fighting in Monrovia and other cities in Liberia has led to a further deterioration of humanitarian conditions inside the country. More than one million people remain homeless. Food supplies are dangerously low. The…

Security As the first batch of Nigerian peacekeepers arrived on Monday to deliver war weary Liberians from the orgy of four years of armed hostilities, there were reports of fighting around the Port of Monrovia, but Central Monrovia is reported…

Security Militiamen commandeered a vehicle belonging to an NGO, ACF in Monrovia on Saturday while it was on duty to dispense humanitarian assistance to thousands of IDPs in Monrovia and its environs. The ACF Head of Office, Frederick Bordeau said…

With the humanitarian situation deteriorating day by day in Liberia, aid agencies called for urgent deployment of multinational forces under UN and ECOWAS mandate in the African country in order to allow the civil population to access essential services…

Security Several parts of Monrovia remained relatively calm on Thursday after eleven or more days of fierce fighting between LURD and government forces, which has left hundreds of people dead. It is not yet clear whether this was the result…

By Chris Herlinger ACCRA, GHANA - By turns angry and exasperated by the ongoing war in Liberia and the frustratingly glacial pace of international attention to the crisis there, Liberian church leaders in Ghana are also, by equal measure, ready…

An ICRC-chartered Ilyushin 76 landed this morning at 10.30 a.m. at Monrovia's Robertsfield airport. The cargo aircraft was carrying emergency medical supplies and equipment, together with a water truck that can hold up to 15,000 litres of drinking water…