Reports

General Situation 1. Highlights UNHCR High Commissioner Ruud Lubbers arrives in Liberia on 3 May on the final leg of eight-day mission to West Africa to review progress of the ongoing repatriation and reintegration of Sierra Leonean refugees and to assess…

14th-26th April 2004 1. SIGNIFICANT EVENTS/ HIGHLIGHTS Jean-Marie Guéhenno, USG for the UN peacekeeping operations in New York visited Côte d'Ivoire from the 15th-19th April. During his visit Guéhenno held talks with both President Gbagbo and the coalition of opposition parties…

par Eliana Nabaa/MONUC A 48 heures d'intervalle, la MONUC Bukavu a signé avec des partenaires locaux deux nouveaux projets QIPS pour la province du Sud Kivu. Le 14 avril 2004, la MONUC et l'Archidiocèse de Bukavu / Paroisse de Kalehe ont…

General Situation 1. Highlights Liberia DDRR process commences Liberia's disarmament, demobilization, rehabilitation and resettlement (DDRR) of an estimated 40,000 combatants commenced on 15 April in Gbarnga, 86 miles northeast of Monrovia with out problems. As of 19 April, UNMIL had officially disarmed…

This report* does not necessarily reflect the official position of the United Nations. Weekly Highlights 80-100,000 people face humanitarian crisis along the Angola-DRC frontier; OCHA leads inter-agency mission Clashes between armed groups in North-Kivu lead to several different population displacements within the…

Ce rapport ne reflète pas nécessairement la position officielle des Nations Unies. FAITS MAJEURS 80.000 à 100.000 personnes font face à une crise humanitaire le long de la frontière entre la RDC et l'Angola, selon différentes sources humanitaires. OCHA y a…

In Brief Appeal No.: 01.28/2003 (Click here to access the 2003 Appeal) Appeal target: CHF 3,444,614 (USD 2,363,533 or EUR 2,341,987) Appeal coverage: 85.3% (Click here to access the Final Financial Report) Appeal 2004: Sierra Leone no. 01.26/2004 (Click here to access…

1st - 14th April 2004 1. SIGNIFICANT EVENTS/ HIGHLIGHTS The acting high commissioner for human rights has established an independent commission of inquiry to investigate the human rights violations committed during demonstrations in Abidjan on the 25th-26th March 2004, during which…

SECURITY HIGHLIGHTS UN Security Council recommends security forces to stay behind - The UN Security Council has extended UNAMSIL's mandate for a further six months until 30 September 2004. The Council has also decided that a residual UNAMSIL presence should…

Rotarians were among the civic leaders and volunteers who helped fill the void left by the total collapse of government during Liberia's 14-year-old civil war that killed tens of thousands, displaced close to a million, and devastated much of…