Reports

Security As the first batch of Nigerian peacekeepers arrived on Monday to deliver war weary Liberians from the orgy of four years of armed hostilities, there were reports of fighting around the Port of Monrovia, but Central Monrovia is reported…

Security Militiamen commandeered a vehicle belonging to an NGO, ACF in Monrovia on Saturday while it was on duty to dispense humanitarian assistance to thousands of IDPs in Monrovia and its environs. The ACF Head of Office, Frederick Bordeau said…

A pesar de la continuación de los combates en Liberia, que en los =FAltimos días se han extendido a las ciudades de Gbanga y Buchanan, Acción contra el Hambre ha logrado reanudar la distribución de alimentos consiguiendo cubrir las…

ROME - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has launched an emergency operation to fly critical food aid supplies into the Liberian capital, Monrovia, where hundreds of thousands of people are in desperate need of assistance following two…

ROME -- The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has launched an emergency operation to fly critical food aid supplies into the Liberian capital, Monrovia, where hundreds of thousands of people are in desperate need of assistance following two…

Security Heavy fighting erupted again today over the two bridges linking Monrovia with its western suburbs, with mortar shells slamming several communities and bullets piercing through, coming as far as the enclave of the US Embassy compound. Eyewitnesses say a…

U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUREAU FOR DEMOCRACY, CONFLICT, AND HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE (DCHA) OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA) Note: The last Liberia Situation Report was dated July 25, 2003. BACKGROUND Liberia has been marked by intermittent civil war since…

Save the Children UK is sending 30 tonnes of urgently needed food, medical and family survival supplies to Monrovia from Manston Airport in Kent on Sunday evening, 3 August. The charity will distribute items from the flight including energy biscuits,…

Ethiopia: Food aid pledges are satisfactory but food insecurity remains severe Food aid pledges have reached 100 percent and 94 percent of the required cereals and supplementary blended food, respectively. By July 2003, all 1.4 million metric…

With the humanitarian situation deteriorating day by day in Liberia, aid agencies called for urgent deployment of multinational forces under UN and ECOWAS mandate in the African country in order to allow the civil population to access essential services…