Reports

While negotiations for access to remote areas in Liberia are underway, United Nations humanitarian agencies continue to distribute aid where they can outside the capital Monrovia, a UN spokesperson said today. The spokesperson, Marie Okabe, said in New York that the…

U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUREAU FOR DEMOCRACY, CONFLICT, AND HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE (DCHA) OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA)Note: This Situation Report updates USAID/OFDA Liberia Situation Report #4, FY 2004, dated October 22, 2003. Background Liberia has been marked…

GENERAL SITUATION The Gbarnga-Ganta route is now open according to a report from the UN Field Security Office/UNMIL assessment mission by air to Saniquelle. Two vehicles transported by an UNMIL helicopter successfully drove down to Monrovia. The mission also reported that…

MONROVIA, 23 October 2003 - Distribution of the first batch of 4,662 School-in-the-box kits is set to begin today for 372,960 Liberian children, initially among six counties: Montserrado, Bomi, Bong, Margibi, Grand Bassa and Margibi. The Back to School supplies,…

"The conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is one of the forgotten crises of our time," said State Secretary Vidar Helgesen. "In spite of some hopeful signs in the peace process and the establishment of a transitional…

U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUREAU FOR DEMOCRACY, CONFLICT, AND HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE (DCHA) OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA)Note: This Situation Report updates USAID/OFDA Liberia Situation Report #3, FY 2004, dated October 15, 2003. Background Liberia has been marked…

Political/Security Developments Monday 20 October is DAY 28 of the Forces Nouvelles boycott of the government of national reconciliation and the national process of Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reinsertion (DDR). Groups of youth have destroyed opposition national dailies and threatened distributors and…

PRESS BRIEFING United Nations Country Team in Liberia Guests: Mr. Abou Moussa, Deputy Special Representative of Secretary-General & Humanitarian Coordinator for Liberia, Mr. Gemmo Lodesani, Regional Coordinator WFP, Mr. Moses Okello, Country Representative, UNHCR, Mr. Cyrille Niameogo, Country Representative, Ms. Elizabeth Odour-Noah,…

GENERAL SITUATION The United Nations on 20 October undertook a rapid assessment mission to Voinjama (Lofa county), the first humanitarian mission to that city in four years. This rapid assessment represents the critical first step in ensuring a sustained UN…

GENERAL SITUATION Monrovia remains calm following the 14 October inauguration of C. Gyude Bryant as Chairman of Liberia's transitional government. MERLIN, an International NGO reports that the road to Buchanan remains secure and a small number of IDPs have begun…