Reports

World Vision is continuing to assess the of needs of civilians living in LURD rebel held areas in western Liberia. Areas where World Vision previously operated health and food security programmes were targeted in the latest assessment mission. Those people…

World Vision yesterday resumed food distributions to displaced people in Monrovia. The World Food Programme (WFP) supplied food is first being distributed to 31,478 people at Wilson Corner IDP camp. World Vision used a new distribution system called Community Based…

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 #11, dated September 17, 2003. Background Liberia has been marked by intermittent…

Place: UNDP CONFERENCE ROOM Guests: Mr. Ross Mountain, UN Special Humanitarian Coordinator for Liberia; Dr. Omar Khatib, Country Representative of WHO; Mr. Justin Bagirishya, Country Representative WFP; Mr. Moses Okello, UNHCR; Mr. Cyrille Niameogo, Country Representative UNICEF, Elizabeth Odour-Noah, Deputy Representative…

OTTAWA - Up to four Canadian Forces officers will deploy on Operation LIANE, the Canadian contribution to the United Nations (UN) Mission in Liberia (UNMIL), from late September until early November 2003. The officers will deploy with the Stand-by High-Readiness Brigade…

GENERAL SITUATION The UN Special Humanitarian Coordinator, Mr Ross Mountain, returned to Liberia today after attending the Security Council meeting in New York last week, at which the Council resolved to deploy a UN stabilisation force to Liberia. In addition…

15 - 21 Sep 2003 I. GENERAL SITUATION This week humanitarian actors have forged ever further into the interior. Successful missions to Harper (Maryland Country) and Gbarnga (Bong County) enabled a rapid assessment of vulnerable populations living within these counties, while…

Activités humanitaires 1. Plan de contingence pour la capitale bujumbura Suite aux deplacements massifs de populations dans la ville de bujumbura au mois de juillet dernier, divers acteurs (dont la communaute humanitaire et le gouvernement) ont mene une evaluation et ont recommande…

FOOD DISTRIBUTIONS The World Food Programme (WFP) this week allocated World Vision around 3,400 metric tones of food to be distributed to about 75,000 Internally Displaced People (IDPS) in Montserrado and Margibi Counties. WV Commodities Manager Elie Gasagara said the three-month…

General Situation The protection of civilians remains a preoccupation for humanitarian actors. The continued intimidation and abuse of human rights by armed parties, highlighted in recent missions to Buchanan and Gbarnga, must stop. United Nations agencies, together with NGOs and INGOs…