Rapports

MSF has set up a new health post where people enter Bunia and provides first aid as well as medical screening of people entering the town. According to MSF workers at the health post, the returnees are exhausted, many…

Since late 1996, the Democratic Republic of Congo (ex Zaire) has been ravaged by war. Every day, men, women and children are shot and killed. Others succomb to illness, hunger, thirst, exile and exhaustion as they attempt to flee…

Bonn, 07/04/2003 - The militias of the Hema and Lendu, which were rampaging in Bunya until recently, have withdrawn to the forests outside the protective zone. "We are in urgent need of resupply, as our stores have run out,"…

Le 27 juin, un camion transportant de la nourriture du PAM s'est renversé quand un pont en bois sur la route de Gueckedou à Macenta s'est écroulé, tuant deux personnes. Le camion était chargé d'approvisionner le camp de Kola…

(2003- 83) News Release Ottawa - The Honourable Susan Whelan, Minister for International Cooperation, today announced that Canada, through the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), is providing $5.8 million in humanitarian assistance to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). "We applaud…

U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUREAU FOR DEMOCRACY, CONFLICT, AND HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE (DCHA) OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA) Background Armed conflict in northern Uganda combined with violent looting and cattle raids by Karamojong pastoralists in the east have…

The number of Liberians seeking refuge at the SOS Children's Village in Monrovia, since the fighting began between LURD rebels and troops loyal to President Charles Taylor, has risen to 7,500. SOS Children's Villages is providing aid although medications…

Appeal Target: US$ 2,938,602Balance Requested from ACT Network: US$ 2,564,143 Geneva, 3 July 2003 Dear Colleagues, On 5 March 2003, Appeal AFDC-31 for Relief and Rehabilitation for the eastern area of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) was…

(New York: 2 July 2003) - A lull in the fighting in Monrovia has allowed the national staff of humanitarian agencies to resume some basic relief activities. Their efforts, however, continue to be constrained by an uncertain security environment…

I. Military/Political Developments Facing mounting international pressure to have the US lead a Liberia mission that would include West African peacekeepers, the US president is considering deployment of troops to the war torn West African nation. Timing of the announcement…