Rapports

(New York: 25 July 2003) - Fighting continued in Monrovia this morning, with mortar rounds landing near a UN compound. With Monrovia's main water supply station at Wide Plains destroyed in recent fighting, the city's population desperately needs the supply…

Security In spite of reports that the leadership of LURD had given orders to their fighters in Liberia to stop the hostility, fighting continued in Monrovia unabated with barrages of rocket blasts landing in several communities in central Monrovia, killing…

Distribution of food aid to returnees in Kono The UNHCR repatriation programme for Sierra Leonean refugees from neighbouring Guinea to Kono district continues. World Vision distributed 46.90 metric tons of USAID food to 1,418 returnees in May and 26.788 metric tons…

Update of the ITCZ Position From July 11-20, 2003, the African portion of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) slowed its overall northward movement, and was located near 18.2 degrees north latitude when averaged over the domain from…

AFR/672, IHA/790 (Received from UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.) FREETOWN, 22 July - Marc Destanne de Bernis, the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in Liberia expresses his deep concern regarding the desperate humanitarian situation in Liberia as fighting intensifies, displacing,…

Nairobi, 22 July 2003 - As calm returns to the streets of the Burundian capital, Bujumbura, WFP has stepped up its food aid deliveries to thousands of people caught up in the recent rebel attack on the city. The Agency…

The Federal Foreign Office is stepping up its aid for people affected by the continuing humanitarian crisis in the East of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. A total of 484,000 euro has been earmarked for three projects: German Agro…

ROME - With fighting escalating in the Liberian capital, Monrovia, hundreds of thousands of people have sought refuge in makeshift shelters across the city, leaving them without any access to adequate food supplies and in urgent need of assistance, said…

Security and Political Situation 1.1. Security On Friday, 18 July, Fear engulfed Monrovia when reports reached the city that LURD had repulsed government forces from Klay Junction and advanced to Sasstown, about 27 kilometres northwest of the Liberian Capital. Hundreds of…

In the Koinadugu region, where agriculture and livestock raising have been practiced for generations, restocking animals became one of Kondeya village's highest community priorities after the war. In Sierra Leone, unlike most other countries in West Africa, one notices right away…