Reports

The United Nations mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), implementing "rapid impact projects," has renovated a building to house university students and built another to train the deaf. Starting at the end of September, the mission said, it…

This report does not necessarily reflect the official position of the United Nations. Weekly Highlights - Hundreds of IDPs returning home caught in deadly attack in Ituri District. - Inter-agency mission to Dekese, Western Kasai Province confronts a humanitarian emergency. - 2000…

CHAD, 23 January 2004 - In response to the rapidly deteriorating situation of Sudanese refugees in Chad, UNICEF is moving ahead on a series of activities, including a measles campaign for nearly 86,000 children from six months to 14…

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Echo's Global Plan 2004 strategy appears at a time when Burundi is trying to find its way out of a crisis, which has seriously weakened it socially and economically. The formation of a new transitional government on…

1. RéSUMé La stratégie du Plan global 2004 d'ECHO intervient à un moment o=F9 le Burundi s'efforce de sortir de la crise qui l'a gravement affaibli socialement et économiquement. La formation d'un nouveau gouvernement transitoire le 24 novembre 2003, qui…

Appeal Target: US$ 783,616 Geneva, 21 January 2004 Dear Colleagues, In the Mano River region of West Africa, Guinea has remained a relatively peaceful country in the midst of instability which has plagued the region for over a decade…

About 90,000 Sudanese refugees are presently estimated to be in Chad along the border with Sudan, with the highest concentration between the border towns of Adré and Tiné. These movements started in July 2003 and continue…

U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUREAU FOR DEMOCRACY, CONFLICT, AND HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE (DCHA) OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA) Note: The last situation report was dated December 18, 2003. BACKGROUND Liberia has been marked by intermittent civil war since Charles Taylor launched…

Real Lives: "My favorite subject is reading", says Yama. "My parents were poor and they could not read and many people where we lived could not read either. The adults liked it when I would come home with a book…

Liberia is like the blind beggar who, in the Biblical parable, went about begging with a golden bowl. This West African country is rich in gold, diamonds, oil and timber. The discovery of offshore oil could potentially make Liberia…