Informes

OVERVIEW The stalemate in implementing the Linas-Marcoussis accord continues as Ivorian Prime Minister Seydou Diarra negotiates with the Ivorian authorities, rebel groups, and the international community, over how to distribute key ministries in the reconciliation government. MPCI rebel-group leader Soro Guillaume…

(United Nations: 24 February 2003): As continuing instability limits their access to people in need, humanitarian agencies in Côte d'Ivoire are receiving consistent reports of abuses against civilians. Shortages of food and access to health care are also taking their…

Humanitarian Activities 1. Cholera update (Rumonge district, Bururi Province) As at Friday 21 February, the total number of cases reported since 10 February 2003 is 122 people (from clinical observations). The epidemic peaked on Tuesday 18 February, with…

S/2003/211 I. Introduction 1. The present report is submitted pursuant to Security Council resolution 1417 (2002) of 14 June 2002, by which the Council decided to extend the mandate of the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic…

January - February 2003 I HUMANITARIAN HIGHLIGHTS Cote d'Ivoire The Humanitarian Envoy of the Secretary General, Ms. Carolyn McAskie, visited Guinea from 3-5 February as part of her tour assessing the humanitarian and economic effects of the crisis in…

Lubumbashi/New York, February 21, 2003 As the death toll from cholera rises dramatically, the international medical aid organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has dispatched medical teams and medicines to fight several epidemics in the Democratic Republic Congo (DRC). The…

Food For Africa Action Against Hunger is calling for large-scale mobilisation of the international community towards a global humanitarian response to prevent the further spread of hunger on the African continent and to address the spread of HIV. Africa's Hunger…

19 February 2003 - GENEVA -- Laboratory tests have confirmed that the Ebola virus is the cause of an outbreak of haemorrhagic fever in the northwest of the Republic of the Congo. As of Tuesday, 18 February, 80 cases…

As of 18 February, a total of 73 suspected cases and 59 deaths of Ebola haemorrhagic fever has been reported in the districts of Mbomo and Kellé in Cuvette Ouest Region ( see previous report ). The Government of the…

KIGALI, RWANDA, 18 February 2003: UNICEF is supporting a major campaign in Rwanda to immunise over 3 million children against measles. The campaign is part of a global initiative to reduce child mortality and morbidity caused by the disease.…