Rapports

Agency delivers food rations, water to 150,000 people in vulnerable communities Mercy Corps is providing emergency food support to 150,000 people living in drought-stricken Eritrea. A $2 million grant from the US Agency for International Development's Food for Peace program is…

HIGHLIGHTS ERREC and OCHA facilitated and held a meeting with partners on CAP-2003 Mid Year Review on 17 April 2003; The response to the food crisis appealed by WFP under CAP reaches 32%; The Eritrea National Committee for the Coordination of Combating…

Critical Issues Seven cases of measles were reported from 16 March - 12 April in Bié Province. Demining operations in northeast Huíla Province will resume this month. Approximate 2,600 people in the Menongue Transit Centre in Kuando Kubango Province urgently required water,…

Relief in response to the unfolding humanitarian needs has expanded its programme to cover about 1,7 million beneficiaries in 18 districts throughout the country. The general food aid program has distributed a record 20,485 metric tonnes of food in a…

While the world focuses its attention on the war in Iraq, the effects of a devastating drought in Ethiopia are going largely unnoticed. Authorities estimate that 11 million people face food shortages without help from aid agencies. A team from…

RELIEF FOOD OPERATIONS UPDATE The short season (belg) rains continue in various parts of the country. The belg picture is very mixed; although recent rains have been positive, many areas suffered from a dry period in early March, and DPPC…

Appeal Target: US$ 436,734 Geneva, 11 April 2003 Dear Colleagues, The Southern Blue Nile region now known as Funj region is one of the areas in Southern Sudan that has been continuously contested between the Government of Sudan and…

Ottawa - The Honourable Susan Whelan, Minister for International Cooperation, today announced that Canada, through the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), has committed $3 million to provide emergency assistance for people in Eritrea. "Canada is responding to the urgent need for…

Matabeleland South Assessment A UN inter-agency team carried out a rapid assessment of the potential gaps in the present response, and of the number of people in need of humanitarian assistance in Matabeleland South from 24th -- 29th March 2003.…

RECENT NUTRITIONAL SURVEYS INDICATE POOR TO CRITICAL NUTRITIONAL STATUS In February and March 2003, World Vision (WV) conducted nutrition surveys in 11 woredas in Afar, Tigray and SNNPR. In Afar, survey results indicate that the nutritional status of children in Assaita…