Reports

Humanitarian Activities 1. UNICEF, and their NGO partners, assist thousands of IDPs Displacement Bujumbura/ Bujumbura Rural: On Wednesday 23 July, UNICEF distributed blankets to 700 households still dispersed among families in Kamenge (Bujumbura Town). Since 7th July, UNICEF's NGO partners have distributed…

Fighting has intensified in Monrovia today as the government forces try to repel the LURD rebels' third attack on the city. After 7 days of fighting, the humanitarian situation is desperate with over 200,000 people displaced within the city…

SC/7826 Security Council 4794th Meeting (AM) The Security Council this afternoon endorsed recommendations made by the Council missions to Central Africa - 7 to 16 June - and to West Africa - 26 June to 5 July, and expressed the…

Monrovia/Brussels - This morning shells landed in Monrovia's "Mamba Point" neighbourhood, where MSF has been running two hospitals since the city's public hospital was forced to close a month ago. One shell exploded only ten metres from the gates of…

Geneva, Nairobi, Paris - In a report entitled "Ituri : Unkept Promises? A Pretense of Protection and Inadequate Assistance", and released today, the international humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) denounced the lack of effective protection of civilians in the…

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…

Mr Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations Dear Mr Secretary General, Re: Call for decisive action to avoid further chaos and bloodshed in Liberia Caritas Internationalis, a Confederation of 162 Catholic relief, development and social service agencies throughout the world, wishes…

Paris, July 25 2003 - The FIDH is highly concerned about the dramatic humanitarian crisis in Liberia. The continuing fighting between the LURD rebels -Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy-, the Model rebels -Movement for Democracy in Liberia- and Taylor's…

A joint statement issued by Archbishop Michael Francis of Monrovia - Chair of Inter-religious Council of Liberia, Bishop Biguzzi of Makeni, Sierra Leone - former chair of Inter-religious Council of Sierra Leone and Bishop Koroma of Kenema, Sierra Leone. We,…

SC/7824 AFR/674 Following is today's statement to the press by Security Council President Inocencio F. Arias (Spain) on the situation in Liberia: Members of the Security Council expressed their concern for the continuing deterioration of the security situation and the ongoing humanitarian…