Reports

Freetown/Geneva (ICRC) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has reunited ten Liberian children living as refugees in Sierra Leone with their families in Liberia. This is the first such cross-border reunification since tensions in Liberia started more…

Over 1,000,000 displaced in Côte d'Ivoire, 80% of whom are women and children Over 150,000 people have already crossed into neighboring countries, straining already weak social service systems US$ 5.7 million needed to cover emergency health, nutrition and…

Under-Secretary-General Olara A. Otunnu, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, has been invited to address the twenty-sixth ordinary Summit of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African…

IHA/751 NEW YORK, 27 January (OCHA) - On the morning of Saturday, 25 January, the Secretary-General's Humanitarian Envoy for the crisis in Côte d'Ivoire, Carolyn McAskie, visited the Abidjan shantytown of Washington, following reports that residents there had been beaten and…

SG/SM/8590 AFR/548 Following is the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the opening of the Conference of Heads of State on Côte d'Ivoire in Paris on 25 January: We are gathered here today to ratify the agreement ending the conflict which…

BANGUI, 27 January (IRIN) - The Central African Republic (CAR) government has been fighting supporters of the former army chief of staff, Francois Bozize, since 25 October 2002 when they invaded the capital, Bangui. Aided by Libyan troops and an…

New York, Jan 25 2003 7:00PM - United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today urged the factions in Côte d'Ivoire to make good on pledges in an agreement aimed at ending the country's civil strife, and called for international support…

(Near Verbatim) YOUSEF HAMDAN CHIEF OF PUBLIC INFORMATION Good afternoon and welcome to today's briefing. Let me first tell you that the trip of Mr. Olara Otunnu, the Secretary-General's Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, has been postponed and a…

Déclaration du porte-parole du Quai d'Orsay (Paris, le 24 janvier 2003) Nous nous félicitons de la signature de l'accord de Linas-Marcoussis par l'ensemble des forces politiques représentatives ivoiriennes. Hier soir, dans la nuit, cet accord a été signé et il sera naturellement…

150,000 internally displaced persons in the South and 65,000 flood victims in the North in urgent need of assistance - Ongoing peace campaign - UNICEF short of emergency supplies for IDPs and flood victims 1. EMERGENCY OVERVIEW AND RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IDPs in…