Informes

"Today, we have to decide again whether to reduce our teams," said MSF spokesperson Christopher Stokes. "We are committed to stay with the Liberian population, but have to concede that at a time when their needs are even greater…

June - July 2003 Highlights Snapshot of Humanitarian Situation in Liberia Impact on Neighboring Countries Humanitarian Field Review Mission Humanitarian Snapshot: Liberia HUMANITARIAN SITUATION: During the past two years of civil war in Liberia, the United Nations and other humanitarian organisations have gradually lost access to…

SG/SM/8761, AFR/650 The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan: The Secretary-General has learned with deep concern of renewed and intensified fighting between government troops and rebel forces in Monrovia over the last 24 hours. This…

On the eve of a visit by United Nations Security Council delegation to West Africa, and as fighting intensifies around Liberia's capital, Monrovia, Amnesty International urges the countries of the subregion and the international community to do everything possible to…

The ICRC has published a new album containing 900 photos of young children who have been repatriated to Rwanda from neighbouring countries and who are unable to supply the information needed to trace their families. Parents who have been separated…

Violence against women - rape, torture, and mutilation - is all too common in the ethnic conflict raging in eastern DRC. As Hyun-Sung Khang reports, this brutal weapon of war is destroying the region's social structures as well as…

Having just wrapped up a special mission to Central Africa, the United Nations Security Council says it considers that the installation of the transitional government in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the successful conclusion of a…

S/2003/663 I. Introduction 1. In its resolution 1470 (2003) of 28 March 2003, the Security Council urged the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) to complete phase 2 of its drawdown plan as outlined in my seventeenth…

Impact of Crisis in Liberia on Guinea OCHA Guinea and humanitarian partners continue to monitor the situation along the Guinean-Liberian border. No significant increase in influx has been registered so far and UNHCR reports that while some 250 Ivorians have…

I. Military/Political Developments Current -- The number of armed gangs raiding homes and looting has increased over the last two days in Duala and New crew town suburbs of Monrovia. IDPs in camps of Seighbeh, VOA and Plumkor have reported…