Tag: OCHA
Two top United Nations humanitarian officials on Tuesday called on the Security Council to use its influence to secure a cessation of hostilities to prevent the famine from spreading. With famine declared last week in parts of Darfur, Sudan, the UN says a cessation of hostilities is the only lasting solution that will prevent the […]
“The Sudanese war has been brutal in terms of human rights violations, gender-based and sexual violence, and people really have nowhere to go. We are facing all kinds of problems, and the tools we have to deal with them are very limited in the current conflict. » alarmed the head of the UN emergency relief […]
As initial assessments sowed, nearly 2300 hectares of cultivated land were flooded, raising concerns about the destruction of means to produce food and the loss of livestock. The torrential downpours double the usual amount of rainfall in the Republic of the Congo has recently led to unprecedented floods, affecting over 1.8 million people of whom […]
Three months after the first of the devastating earthquakes that hit Nepal, hundreds of thousands of survivors continue to require and rely on urgent humanitarian assistance, the top United Nations humanitarian official in the recovering country said today. “The emergency is not over yet,” warned Jamie McGoldrick, the Humanitarian Coordinator in Nepal. “As long as […]
