Rapports

IP/03/229 Brussels, 13 February 2003 - The European Commission has approved a €24 million package to help meet the humanitarian needs of mainly Burundian and Congolese refugees in Tanzania for 2003. These funds will be channelled through partner organisations working in…

Geneva, 13 February 2003 - The Red Cross Red Crescent today launched an initial appeal for one million Swiss francs in response to the worsening food situation in Mauritania where at least 410,000 people require emergency food aid. The Mauritanian…

The Federation’s mission is to improve the lives of vulnerable people by mobilizing the power of humanity. It is the world’s largest humanitarian organization and its millions of volunteers are active in 178 countries. For more…

MILITARY / POLITICAL SITUATION Since the signing of the Linas-Marcoussis Accord in Paris, a steady stream of protests and riots have rocked Abidjan, the most serious of which was the storming of the runway at Abidjan's airport by over one-thousand…

United Nations relief workers are steadily making their way across the western part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where thousands of families have been left stranded and homeless in the wake of a deadly tornado. The team,…

by Geoffrey Denye Kalebbo, World Vision Communications Children in Burundi's northern province of Karusi who were likely to miss school because of hunger have started receiving meals at school through a major school-feeding programme by World Vision and the World Food…

The Federal Foreign Office is making a further EUR 500,000 available to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) from the humanitarian aid budget. The funds are to be used to provide accommodation, protection and…

WFP is using its food aid to help support the Rwandan Government's national reconciliation programme. The Agency this week completed its first distribution of food rations to prisoners provisionally released into Solidarity Centres under a government amnesty anounced on January…

OCHA/GVA - 2003/0032 OCHA Situation Report No. 1 Democratic Republic of Congo - Tropical Storm in Yumbi 7 February 2003 Click here to see MAP: DR Congo: Area affected by storm (6 feb 2003) Situation 1. A tropical storm has hit western Democratic Republic…

In response to the humanitarian situation in Mauritania the Department for International Development (DFID) has provided =A31 million for the World Food Programme Western Sahel Emergency Operation and =A30.57 million to OXFAM for food aid. This is an ongoing crisis…