Reports

Humanitarian Activities 1. UN agencies joint team investigates reports of fighting in west United Nations humanitarian agencies have rushed a joint assessment team to western Burundi following reports that civilians had fled rebel fighting in Bubanza Province. The UN Humanitarian agencies in…

MONROVIA, Liberia, Sept 12 (UNHCR) Another 177 internally displaced people (IDPs) were transported out of Monrovia on Friday by the UN refugee agency, as efforts to relieve the pressure on the chronically overcrowded Liberian capital, as well as to launch…

S/2003/875 I. Introduction 1. The present report is submitted pursuant to Security Council resolution 1497 (2003) of 1 August 2003, by which the Council authorized the deployment of a multinational force in Liberia and declared its readiness to…

GENERAL SITUATION In response to the attack on Phebe Hospital, and theft of NGO equipment (Salala), the UN Special Humanitarian Coordinator has approached the National Defence Minister and sought his assurance that efforts will now be made to recover the…

GENERAL SITUATION The deployment of ECOMIL forces yesterday to Salala, extending into Totota (115 kilometres northeast of Monrovia), has brought renewed stability and confidence to IDPs and civilians. Humanitarian assessment missions today indicate that those IDPs who fled the fighting yesterday…

GENERAL SITUATION Fighting between Government militia and LURD combatants in Kakata - 50 kilometres northeast of Monrovia city, endangered the lives of IDPs and civilian populations in the early hours of Tuesday morning. Preliminary reports indicate as many as 3,000…

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 #8, dated September 3, 2003. Background Liberia has been marked by intermittent…

Current Context The veneer of calm in Monrovia masks a continuing and serious humanitarian and human rights emergency in the country as a whole. Though the capital remains superficially calm and business activity is picking up, there is a significant…

KINSHASA, 10 September (IRIN) - The UN special rapporteur on the human rights situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Antoanella-Iulia Motoc, completed on Saturday a 10-day mission during which she visited the capital, Kinshasa, and the…

Humanitarian Activities 1. Landmines continue casualties Richard and Emmanueline are among scores of landmines victims in Burundi. A UNICEF report titled "Mine Victims in Burundi" says that 203 people suffered from landmine blasts in 2001 and 2002. It said 44 of…