Reports

Ongoing harvests have temporarily lessen food security stress in equatorial GHA but due to drought and conflicts, significant populations will likely remain food insecure in 2004 and into 2005 The June-July 2004 crop harvest was below average…

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Jennifer Pagonis - to whom quoted text may be attributed at the press briefing, on 30 July 2004, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. UNHCR's operation in…

23 - 30 July 2004 A. GENERAL SITUATION Highlights NTGL Chair and representatives of former warring factions to meet in Accra NTGL Chairman Gyude Bryant and signatories of the Comprehensive Peace Accord (CPA) of 18 August traveled to Accra, Ghana on 28 July…

Ce rapport ne reflète pas nécessairement la position officielle des Nations Unies. FAITS MAJEURS Environ 82.800 personnes déplacées signalées à Mahagi, dans le District de l'Ituri, selon les informations collectées auprès de différents partenaires. Les agences et organisations humanitaires de Mahagi et…

The influx of almost 200,000 refugees into eastern Chad has stretched humanitarian resources to the limit and there is a need for the donor community to back the scaling up of operations there, the International Federation of Red Cross…

Almost 10,000 people received relief items during World Vision's first distribution in a refugee camp in Chad. The distribution, which commenced on 12 July, covered 2,161 families who fled Sudan to the Bahai region, five kilometres from the north-eastern…

Summary Production for season 2004 B was 3,281,395 MT. The food balance sheet shows a surplus of 31,000 MT of cereal equivalents for the period of July-December 2004. Due to the abrupt end of the rains in late…

Weekly Preamble Update:CCA Guidance for November-December-January at Four Months Lead (Southern Africa): The outlook for southern Africa rainfall at four months lead shows climatology in all areas, except locally over northern Mozambique and northern Angola, where there…

by Gauthier Lefèvre in eastern Chad At six o'clock in the morning, a group gathers outside the International Rescue Committee (IRC) medical centre in Oure Cassoni refugee camp. Women in colourful dresses, old men in desert-stained white tunics, and children…

Numerous social, economic and environmental factors are converging in Burundi, placing the east African country on the verge of another dangerous food shortage beginning in August. For thousands of families striving to reestablish their lives after years of civil…