Reports

Life in Liberia: unlike anywhere else Everyone living and working in Liberia is confronted with realities that are extraordinary even in the context of humanitarian disasters. The Economist called Liberia "the world's worst place to live in 2003." And the…

NIMBA COUNTY, LIBERIA - October 19, 2004 Six-month-old Perry is all smiles as his mother leans him back and Thompson Kruah, an IRC community health worker in the town of Ganta, drips two clear drops of vaccine onto the…

Ce rapport ne reflète pas nécessairement la position officielle des Nations Unies. FAITS MAJEURS 10 à 15.000 personnes fuient la cité de Kanyabayonga, territoire de Lubero, province du Nord-Kivu, à la suite des tracasseries des militaires ex-ANC. Ces populations se dirigent…

8-15 October 2004 A. General Situation Highlights UNMIL facilitates discussions on repatriation of Sierra Leonean ex-combatants in Liberia During the reporting period, a team from UNMIL returned from Sierra Leone where they held discussions with the Sierra Leonean Government, UNAMSIL and other relevant…

The work of SOS Children's Villages started thirty years ago in Sierra Leone. Even though there have been extremely trying times in which the civil war raged, the staff stood by the needy children incessantly for three decades. The SOS…

(New York: 13 October 2004) - The twelfth confirmed case of polio in Côte d'Ivoire in less than a year marks a drastic increase in a country in which polio was thought to have been eradicated. The number of confirmed…

1. Introduction In September 2003, following allegations of widespread and systematic rape by combatants in the armed conflict in the Central African Republic (CAR), Amnesty International (AI) decided to send two researchers to the capital, Bangui, to…

SIGNIFICANT EVENTS/ HIGHLIGHTS An important deadline (30th September) concerning the legislation reform envisaged under the Accra III Agreement was not met. The special session of the Ivorian parliament, summoned on the 11th August to legislate the reform package, was brought…

Ce rapport ne reflète pas nécessairement la position officielle des Nations Unies. FAITS MAJEURS 1.327 réfugiés congolais (des Bafurero, Babembe, Banyamulenge, Bavira etc.) sont arrivés dans la zone neutre entre la RDC et le Burundi depuis le mercredi 06 septembre 2004.…

Note: This report updates fact sheet 1 FY 2005, dated October1, 2004. DARFUR EMERGENCY - NUMBERS AT A GLANCE SOURCE Conflict-Affected Persons in Darfur and Eastern Chad 2.2 million people U.S. Government, European Union, and United Nations Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Darfur 1.45 million people U.N. Office for…