The Humanitarian Coordinator for Libya and a team including representatives from IOM, OCHA, UN Department of Safety and Security (UNDSS), UNICEF, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), WHO, and WFP started a mission to Tripoli on 28 May. The team is conducting assessments of humanitarian needs and will discuss...
Assistant Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator, Catherine Bragg, is in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on an official visit to the country. During the five-day mission the ASG will travel to the capital, Kinshasa, and visit the South Kivu and Orientale provinces affected by...
Humanitarian partners are working to deliver basic life-saving services to people displaced by recent violence in the Abyei area.
To date, the number of people displaced from the Abyei area is an estimated 60,000 people, mostly concentrated in Warrap State. Displacement from Abyei has also been confirmed in Northern Bahr el...
Emergency Relief Coordinator (ERC) Valerie Amos completed a four-day visit to the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) today. During her visit she met with Palestinian and Israeli officials as well as communities in West Bank Area C, East Jerusalem and in Sderot in Israel.
Commenting at the end of her visit, Ms. Amos said...
ERC Valerie Amos visited Ramallah, East Jerusalem and Area C of the West Bank on 15 May, a day of violent protest in the occupied Palestinian territory.
In Ramallah, Ms. Amos met with President Mahmoud Abbas and also with Prime Minister Salam Fayyad. The ERC reiterated the determination of the United Nations and the...