Rapports

The Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) is today launching a multi-media Liberia Crisis Appeal to support the work of 11 of the UK's best known charities. The Appeal will help fund the rapid expansion of aid work following the first…

Security The long awaited departure of Charles Taylor finally took place today after he handed over power to his vice-President Moses Blah. Moses Blah becomes the 22nd President of Liberia. The city of Monrovia remained calm, though earlier in the…

Food - Small scale food aid distributions are increasing in camps for displaced people and accessible population centres across Monrovia. - Supplementary feeding projects help revive the malnourished, especially children. - Food aid distributions have included rice, oil, canned fish, salt, high-energy biscuits,…

Liberians are streaming into IRC clinics at two sites in Monrovia where thousands of people are seeking shelter from the chaos that surrounds them. With little access to food and clean water, most of them are hungry and sick. "The…

Liberia - An airlift of emergency food and supplies for Liberians is underway. CWS sent the 20-ton shipment in response to hunger, a cholera outbreak, other illnesses, and a dire call for medical supplies. This is the third CWS…

POLITICAL SITUATION Three events marked this week, the vote of the amnesty law by the Parliament of Cote d'Ivoire, the interview of President Gbagbo in the framework of the celebration of the Independence Day, and the return in Cote d'Ivoire…

Humanitarian Activities 1. Action Against Hunger (ACF) residence looted On Saturday evening [9 August] the ACF residence in Kayanza was looted by between 15-20 bandits, who stole IT and communications equipment, including a small sum of money and other household goods. One…

Geneva / Monrovia (ICRC) -- On 8 August, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Médecins Sans Frontières reached Monrovia's port area for the first time since it fell under LURD control on 19 July. Travelling in a…

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 August 1, 2003. BACKGROUND Liberia has been marked by intermittent civil war since…

London (Merlin), 8 August 2003 - 38 tonnes of emergency aid will depart for Monrovia tonight, on a flight funded by the Department for International Development (DFID) for Merlin, the UK-based charity which provides healthcare in crisis. The flight's cargo…