Reports

Please note projects have been revised as of 11 March 2005 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Having closely examined the overall human security situation in West Africa during a workshop held in August 2004 in Dakar, representatives from UN agencies,…

Driven by hunger, thousands of rural families are leaving their villages, exiting by truckloads to neighbouring countries and to the capital, Niamey, in a desperate bid to find food and work. Almost one-third (3.8 million) of Niger's 12 million…

ST. LOUIS, Senegal, November 10, 2004 -- U.S.-funded aircraft in Senegal and Mauritania flew their final sorties early Wednesday, wrapping up a month-long campaign to protect crops and pastures from devastating locust swarms which have ravaged millions of hectares in…

10 November 2004, GENEVA - U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Ruud Lubbers today expressed deep concern over the deteriorating situation in Côte d'Ivoire as the number of people fleeing to neighbouring Liberia climbed to more than 3,000. Lubbers warned that…

The Federation's mission is to improve the lives of vulnerable people by mobilizing the power of humanity. It is the world's largest humanitarian organization and its millions of volunteers are active in over 181 countries. In Brief This…

SACLEPEA, Liberia, Nov 9 (UNHCR) - More than 1,300 Ivorians have fled into eastern Liberia as an 18-month ceasefire breaks down in Côte d'Ivoire, prompting the UN refugee agency and its partners to rush assistance to Liberia's border area. To…

UNHCR Responds to Emergency at Liberia/Cote d'Ivoire Border Since the outbreak of violence in Cote d'Ivoire on November 4, more than 1,250 Ivorians, mostly women and children and some elderly, have fled into Nimba county in northeastern Liberia. Local authorities say…

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Jennifer Clark - to whom quoted text may be attributed at the press briefing, on 9 November 2004, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. Since the outbreak of…

Gabriela Litre/MONUC For the Mutobo Camp, in the Ruhengeri province of Rwanda, it was a big party: 63 Rwandan ex-combatants, who had hidden for years in the Congolese forests of Lubero, Beni, Walikale and other places of the Kivus,…

UNMIL/PIO/PR 147 (Monrovia, Liberia) - The first batch of 500 internally displaced persons (IDPs) and spontaneous returnees began their journey home today, marking a milestone in Liberia's ongoing transition from conflict and destruction to a future of gradual recovery and rehabilitation.…