Informes

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…

Due to the ongoing fighting in Monrovia. Vaccines estimated to USD 250,000 stored in National Drugs Services (NDS) are at risk to be lost for lack of fuel. The port where fuel is available is controlled by the LURD…

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 July 25, 2003. BACKGROUND Liberia has been marked by intermittent civil war since…

Save the Children UK is sending 30 tonnes of urgently needed food, medical and family survival supplies to Monrovia from Manston Airport in Kent on Sunday evening, 3 August. The charity will distribute items from the flight including energy biscuits,…

Paris - Two full charter planes of humanitarian aid arrived today for Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, where hundreds of thousands of civilians are still besieged. The 68 tonnes of logistic and medical material are destined for the hospitals and…

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…

Humanitarian Editorial - human suffering continues Less than a month after the visit of the United Nations Security Council Mission to Burundi the Palipehutu-FNL committed a predawn assault on the Capital, Bujumbura. The largest attack for three years, it began Monday…

Recipient: Jabe Hospital and Rohero Emergency Clinic Shipment Number: 3488 Shipment Date: 7/14/2003 Value: $107,856 Burundi is a landlocked, resource-poor country with an extremely underdeveloped manufacturing sector. The country's economic health depends on the coffee crop, which accounts for approximately 80% of foreign…

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…