Reports

"I would never have believed that surgery could be carried out in such conditions" was the reaction of one of the two members of an American humanitarian mission during a visit to the rambling John F. Kennedy (JFK) hospital…

Dr Schechtman is an MSF volunteer working with the wounded civilian population caught in the fighting in the Liberian capital of Monrovia. This story is often graphic in detailing some if the injuries the MSF team has had to…

Executive summary Over the last week heavy fighting has again raged in and around Monrovia between rebel and government forces. Over one hundred people have been killed and hundreds more injured, mostly civilians, in days of heavy shelling and street…

Every year, malaria attacks up to 500 million people, taking the lives of two million -- many of them children. Prevention, health education, and access to medical care are the keys to saving the lives of children in developing…

Geneva, July 24, 2003 - Fighting in the Liberian capital Monrovia continues to exact a heavy toll on the population. The Liberian representative of Lutheran World Federation (LWF), Charles Pitchford earlier today confirmed reports that the city is facing a water…

On 23 July, the security situation in central Monrovia remained extremely precarious. Although shelling subsided, stray bullets and marauding militiamen made movement difficult. Extensive looting engulfed the neighbourhood where John F. Kennedy Hospital - the only major medical facility still…

Distribution of food aid to returnees in Kono The UNHCR repatriation programme for Sierra Leonean refugees from neighbouring Guinea to Kono district continues. World Vision distributed 46.90 metric tons of USAID food to 1,418 returnees in May and 26.788 metric tons…

As renewed fighting between government troops and rebel forces terrorise the capital, Monrovia, fleeing Liberians are flooding into overcrowded IDP centres, where conditions are worsening. World Vision Africa Relief Co-ordinator Eleanor Monbiot, after two days in Monrovia, declared that "the…

AFR/672, IHA/790 (Received from UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.) FREETOWN, 22 July - Marc Destanne de Bernis, the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in Liberia expresses his deep concern regarding the desperate humanitarian situation in Liberia as fighting intensifies, displacing,…

Nairobi, 22 July 2003 - As calm returns to the streets of the Burundian capital, Bujumbura, WFP has stepped up its food aid deliveries to thousands of people caught up in the recent rebel attack on the city. The Agency…