Yemen’s chronic humanitarian crisis threatens to undermine recent moves towards political stability, warned the UN’s Humanitarian Coordinator, Mr. Ismail OuldCheikh Ahmed.
Speaking at a press conference in Geneva today (16 May), Mr Ahmed said that efforts to bring stability to the country could be for nought if...
En 2010-2011, la Côte d’Ivoire a connu une des pires crises humanitaires de son histoire récente. Les violences qui ont éclaté à la suite du deuxième tour des élections présidentielles du 28 novembre 2010 ont fait environ 3000 morts et ont forcé près d...
The Philippines was recently ranked the third most disaster-prone country in the world. Every year, the country is hit by powerful typhoons, floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. The ongoing conflict in the southern island of Mindanao adds to the hardship.
Luiza Carvalho took up the post of Humanitarian Coordinator in...
An estimated 6.4 million people across the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are food insecure, including 2 million children who are acutely malnourished. About 2.7 million people, mostly affected by recurrent conflict in the east of the country, are internally displaced.
In November 2012, heavy fighting between...
In 2012, aid organizations warned that about 18 million people were affected by the food and nutrition crisis across West Africa’s Sahel region. Drought, poor food production and chronic poverty left many families dependent on aid to cope with the crisis in nine countries: Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger,...
16 May 2013 - 2:09pmYemen’s chronic humanitarian crisis threatens to undermine recent moves towards political stability, warned the UN’s Humanitarian Coordinator, Mr. Ismail OuldCheikh Ahmed. Speaking at a press conference in Geneva today (16 May), Mr Ahmed said that efforts to bring stability to the country could be for nought if...
29 April 2013 - 1:00pmEn 2010-2011, la Côte d’Ivoire a connu une des pires crises humanitaires de son histoire récente. Les violences qui ont éclaté à la suite du deuxième tour des élections présidentielles du 28 novembre 2010 ont fait environ 3000 morts et ont forcé près d...
22 March 2013 - 11:10amThe Philippines was recently ranked the third most disaster-prone country in the world. Every year, the country is hit by powerful typhoons, floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. The ongoing conflict in the southern island of Mindanao adds to the hardship. Luiza Carvalho took up the post of Humanitarian Coordinator in...
11 February 2013 - 9:26amAn estimated 6.4 million people across the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are food insecure, including 2 million children who are acutely malnourished. About 2.7 million people, mostly affected by recurrent conflict in the east of the country, are internally displaced. In November 2012, heavy fighting between...
6 February 2013 - 1:28pmIn 2012, aid organizations warned that about 18 million people were affected by the food and nutrition crisis across West Africa’s Sahel region. Drought, poor food production and chronic poverty left many families dependent on aid to cope with the crisis in nine countries: Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger,...