Rapports

Alors que les forces de paix de la CEDEAO commencent à se déployer dans Monrovia, la situation humanitaire reste alarmante. L'insécurité demeure dans Monrovia et de nombreuses zones de la ville et à fortiori du pays sont encore inaccessibles à l'aide…

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…

The thousands of tonnes of food now in the port of Monrovia must be distributed urgently to avert a menacing humanitarian disaster, Christoph Harnisch, the ICRC's delegate general for Africa, has told the media in Geneva (08 August 2003). He…

Mr. Tom Kitt T.D., Minister of State for Development Cooperation and Human Rights, today announced that the Government would provide €2 million in emergency humanitarian assistance in response to the humanitarian crisis in Liberia. Ireland's contribution will focus on the estimated…

AKRON, Pa. -- Hundreds of thousands of people have fled their homes in civil war-torn Liberia, West Africa, leaving behind the farms on which they depended for food. Through several partner organizations, Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) is contributing both canned…

Security One of the largest crowds ever seen in Monrovia emerged from all corners of the city on Thursday this week to greet West African peacekeepers as they carried out patrols in the city for the first time since their…

by Rosemarie North in Freetown Every morning in the rainy season, groups of women sling babies on to their backs with bright wraps and walk along narrow dirt paths in the tropical forest to their gardens. The 20 women in…

NAIROBI/ROME - As fighting continues in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations World Food Programme has given a warning that nearly half a million displaced people face severe hunger, because a WFP appeal has…

S/2003/801I. Introduction 1. By its resolution 1479 (2003) of 13 May 2003, the Security Council established the United Nations Mission in Côte d'Ivoire (MINUCI), for an initial period of six months, with a mandate to facilitate the…

Update of the ITCZ Position During the third dekad of July 2003, the Africa region of the Intertropical Convergence Zone was located near 19.1 degrees north latitude when averaged from 15W-35E longitude. This is around 0.9 degrees…