Rapports

This bulletin was prepared in collaboration with Save the Children Fund (SCF-UK) and contains a summary of a food economy survey which was conducted in March-April 2003 in Ruhengeri Province. Summary Short-term food security is improving in Rwanda, mainly due to…

WHO STAFF MEETING There will be a DDR meeting tomorrow at 11:00 am to discuss the CAP draft. WHO focal persons should fully participate in the meeting. WHO will begin developing the health intervention component of the DDR. This Action…

(New York: 18 September 2003) - As humanitarian agencies gain better access to areas outside Monrovia, they are finding that humanitarian conditions are acute. A UN inter-agency assessment mission found that there are urgent needs for food, water, water containers…

GENERAL SITUATION Combined humanitarian efforts continued today, addressing both immediate emergency and long-term needs. Particular importance has been placed on ensuring IDPs and refugees are able to return to their homes as soon as possible. The rehabilitation of health services and…

MONROVIA - The United Nations World Food Programme has sent a consignment of food to tens of thousands of people in the insurgent-held Liberian city of Buchanan for the first time since heavy fighting between government forces and rebel…

U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUREAU FOR DEMOCRACY, CONFLICT, AND HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE (DCHA) OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA)Note: This Situation Report updates USAID/OFDA Liberia Situation Report #8, dated September 10, 2003. Background Liberia has been marked by intermittent…

The United Nations has sent food to tens of thousands of people in the rebel-held Liberian city of Buchanan for the first time since heavy fighting erupted between the government and rebels earlier this year, but hundreds of thousands…

General Situation Monrovia is calm but tense. There have been reported incidents around Kru Junction area and ECOMIL was called in for assistance. Reports of skirmishes in Ganta in Nimba County have been also received. The inter-Agency and NGOs mission…

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…

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…