Reports

A recent inter-agency mission to drought-affected areas in Upper Guinea concluded that due to a constant decrease of rainfall over the last 4 years in Gaoual (minus 52%) and Koundara (minus 61%) and the related reduction of the rainy…

Murder and rape are increasing in the war-ravaged eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and children are slowly dying of starvation, with nearly two-thirds of the population estimated to suffer from food shortages, United Nations officials reported today even…

Military/Political Developments Current - Fighting between the Government forces and the LURD rebels was reported yesterday around the towns of Klay and Sasstown, some 30 km northwest of Monrovia. Recently residents of Brewersville saw large number of troops heading towards…

11-18 June 2004 A. GENERAL SITUATION Highlights Cholera Outbreak in Harper, Maryland County confirmed The Ministry of Health and Humedica, an international NGO working in Maryland during the period reported an outbreak of acute watery diarrhea in Harper, Maryland County and requested WHO for assistance…

The 2003 annual joint WFP-UNHCR food needs assessment mission has visited Guinea to plan for its regional protracted relief and recovery operations for the coming year. In Conakry, the mission met with donors, government ministers and UN partners before…

Dakar, 17 June 2003 - WFP has started delivering emergency food rations to about 18,000 refugees and internally displaced people, who have fled into Monrovia to escape the latest round of fighting in Liberia's ongoing civil war. The first food…

NAIROBI - Against a backdrop of brutal ethnic clashes and military rebellions, the UN World Food Programme today launched an emergency appeal for US$38 million to feed nearly half a million war-affected people in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo…

Liberian partners of the Catholic aid agency CAFOD are calling for an immediate ceasefire to end the violence in the Liberian capital, Monrovia. CAFOD's partners in Liberia say that more than one million people have been affected by the recent…

I. Background Liberia is a West African country that shares common borders with Guinea, Sierra Leone and the Ivory Coast. It is divided into 15 counties for administrative purposes. The total land area is 3,786 square miles with a…

I. Military/Political Developments Current - Monrovia city remained calm over the weekend following the withdrawal of LURD forces to Po River some 20 km west of Monrovia. Some normalcy started returning to Duala and other suburbs of Monrovia today as…