Reports

UNMIL/PIO/PR/ 99 (Cheesemanburg, Liberia) - The Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Coordinator of UN Operations in Liberia, Jacques Paul Klein , yesterday launched a vocational training project in housing construction and building trades for ex-combatants in Cheesemanburg, 30 kilometers west…

02 - 06 August 2004 A. GENERAL SITUATION Highlights WFP starts reduced ration distribution due to food pipeline brake For the last couple of months, WFP have continuously warned of the probability of a food pipeline brake in August, if funding shortfalls in…

UNHCR Facilitates Examination Team Members to Guinea UNHCR has facilitated a 3-member team of the West African Examination Team (WAEC) to travel to Guinea to administer the WAEC exams to Liberian refugee students in the four refugee camps in Nzerekore and…

Humanitarian Activities 1 Update on meningitis epidemic Following the meningitis epidemic reported in Burundi's northern provinces, UNICEF and WHO continued to support the Government of Burundi (GoB) to fight a meningitis epidemic through treatment of patients (24 cases confirmed last week)…

(Extract) REFUGEE NEWS BRIEFINGS VENEZUELA: WHAT WE HOPE FOR FROM THE BORDER Some weeks ago, various families from Puerto Lleras, a village situated by the Colombian river Arauca, sought refuge in Las Palmas hacienda, an area near to El Nula, in Páez…

23 - 30 July 2004 A. GENERAL SITUATION Highlights NTGL Chair and representatives of former warring factions to meet in Accra NTGL Chairman Gyude Bryant and signatories of the Comprehensive Peace Accord (CPA) of 18 August traveled to Accra, Ghana on 28 July…

SIGNIFICANT EVENTS/ HIGHLIGHT The report by the UN Security Council mission to West Africa on the 22nd -23rd June was made public on the 12th July. It stated that a failure to resolve the political impasse in Côte d'Ivoire would…

CORD, the UK based aid agency, said today that thousands of refugee child who have fled into Chad to escape the conflict in West Darfur, Sudan, are suffering trauma. "Many children have crossed the border alone either because they have…

Rwanda Overview The challenge that confronted Rwanda in 1994 was truly extraordinary. Thirty-two years of state divisionism, eight years of economic collapse, four years of conflict and three months of savage genocide had left one million people dead, a collapsed…

Once ravaged by war, today still subject to some insecurity and acts of violence from armed groups, the territory of Lubero in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo experiences a humanitarian situation whose scale deserves a larger…