Informes

Fighting has intensified in Monrovia today as the government forces try to repel the LURD rebels' third attack on the city. After 7 days of fighting, the humanitarian situation is desperate with over 200,000 people displaced within the city…

U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUREAU FOR DEMOCRACY, CONFLICT, AND HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE (DCHA) OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA) BACKGROUND Liberia has been marked by intermittent civil war since Charles Taylor launched a rebellion against the military regime of…

Ref: OCHA/GVA - 2003/0114 OCHA Situation Report No. 1 Cameroon - Landslide 25 July 2003 This report is based on information received from the Ministry of Territorial Administration of Cameroon as well as media reports. I. Situation 1. A landslide occured on 20…

Life is not easy when there is no source of drinking water close at hand. And it becomes very difficult indeed when the nearest spring lies several miles away - a long distance to travel when you have to…

Executive summary Over the last week heavy fighting has again raged in and around Monrovia between rebel and government forces. Over one hundred people have been killed and hundreds more injured, mostly civilians, in days of heavy shelling and street…

(New York: 25 July 2003) - Fighting continued in Monrovia this morning, with mortar rounds landing near a UN compound. With Monrovia's main water supply station at Wide Plains destroyed in recent fighting, the city's population desperately needs the supply…

Geneva, July 24, 2003 - Fighting in the Liberian capital Monrovia continues to exact a heavy toll on the population. The Liberian representative of Lutheran World Federation (LWF), Charles Pitchford earlier today confirmed reports that the city is facing a water…

Security In spite of reports that the leadership of LURD had given orders to their fighters in Liberia to stop the hostility, fighting continued in Monrovia unabated with barrages of rocket blasts landing in several communities in central Monrovia, killing…

"Apoyamos un despliegue porque ahora no hay garantías para la seguridad de la población" Intermón Oxfam pide al Consejo de Seguridad de Naciones Unidas, bajo presidencia española durante este mes de julio, una resolución que autorice el despliegue de una…

AFR/672, IHA/790 (Received from UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.) FREETOWN, 22 July - Marc Destanne de Bernis, the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in Liberia expresses his deep concern regarding the desperate humanitarian situation in Liberia as fighting intensifies, displacing,…