Liberia
A rapid nutritional screening of children (ages 6 to 59 months) by World Vision, WHO, UNICEF and the Ministry of Health has indicted that severe malnutrition is on the rise in Tubmanburg, Bomi County, 71km west of Monrovia. Tubmanburg is…
Liberia
WHO STAFF MEETING There will be an assessment mission to Phebe hospital and Gbarnga on Thursday. The WHO team will be led by the WR. There will be a field trip to Tubmanburg today WHO is making efforts to assemble the Bomi and…
Liberia
IP/03/1251 Brussels, 16 September 2003 - The European Commission has today granted €8 million. to support peace keeping efforts in Liberia led by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). The objective of the support is to offer urgent…
Liberia
General Situation The inter-Agency and NGOs mission to Harper has ended its assessment and is now returning to Monrovia. Preliminary findings show that the situation is relatively calm. The airstrip and port remain in good working order, although there is…
Liberia
Latest report on ICRC activities in the field GENERAL SITUATION Ecomil troops managed to deploy outside Monrovia at the end of last week, but renewed fighting between Liberian government troops and the Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD) delayed the deployment…
Congo
"It is obvious people have suffered a lot, many people who return find their houses looted or burnt and many are missing relatives. On paper the war may have ended in March, but on the ground the two sides…
Chad + 1 more
MSF sends international staff and emergency supplies. Brussels/N'Djamena - Today, the international medical aid organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is sending a team of 11 international staff - mainly medical and logistical to eastern Chad. Thousands of Sudanese refugees have…
Liberia
General Daily reports of very low intensity fighting in the country continue. Over the past week there have been reported hostilities in the town of Kakata. This fighting has caused some movement of an unknown number of internally displaced people and…
Liberia
Situation This new appeal extends an appeal (# 6466) issued February 2003 and focuses on meeting the needs of civilians in the aftermath of recent fighting in and around Monrovia between rebel forces, known as LURD, and the Liberian army,…
Burkina Faso + 4 more
The 10-month armed crisis in Côte d'Ivoire has displaced more than 500,000 people, mainly those from Burkina Faso, Mali and Guinea. The crisis in Liberia further de-stabilises the sub-region, aggravating the plight of people trapped between the…
