Corinne Momal-Vanian, the Director of the United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by Spokespersons for the UN Conference on Trade and Development, the Human Rights Council, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the World Food Programme, the UN Children’s Fund, the UN Refugee Agency and the International Organization for Migration.Horn of Africa Elisabeth Byrs of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said that 13.3 million people, including 841,130 refugees, were...

Corinne Momal-Vanian, the Director of the United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by Spokespersons for and Representatives of the World Health Organization, the International Organization for Migration, the World Food Programme, the UN Refugee Agency, the World Meteorological Organization, the UN Children’s Fund and the UN Environment Programme.Sudan/Ethiopia Jean-Philippe Chauzy of the International Organization for Migration said that IOM had deployed staff in Western Ethiopia to provide emergency relocation assistance to an estimated 20,000...

Corinne Momal-Vanian, the Director of the United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by Spokespersons for the International Organization for Migration, the UN Refugee Agency, the Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees and the World Trade Organization.Libya Ms. Momal-Vanian said that United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, while participating at the conference on Libya yesterday in Paris, expressed his intention to convene a high-level meeting on Libya on 20 September in New York in the context of the sixty-sixth session of the General...

Corinne Momal-Vanian, the Director of the United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by Spokespersons for the UN Conference on Trade and Development, the International Organization for Migration, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the World Food Programme, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the UN Refugee Agency.Libya Elisabeth Byrs of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said that OCHA was concerned about a lack of water and interruptions to water provisions in Tripoli and the areas west of...

Corinne Momal-Vanian, the Director of the United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by Spokespersons for the World Trade Organization, the World Meteorological Organization, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the International Organization for Migration, the World Health Organization, the UN Refugee Agency and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.Horn of Africa Elisabeth Byrs of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said that, despite massive efforts by humanitarian agencies to continue to scale up...

Corinne Momal-Vanian, the Director of the United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by Spokespersons for the World Meteorological Organization, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the International Organization for Migration, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and the World Food Programme.Situation in the Horn of Africa Adrian Edwards of the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said that UNHCR had deployed an emergency team to the Gode area, some 250 kilometres north of the refugee camps at Dollo Ado, Ethiopia. In coordination with...

Alessandra Vellucci, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section of the United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by Spokespersons for and Representatives of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the World Food Programme, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the Human Rights Council, the Secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, the World Trade Organization, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the United Nations Refugee...

Alessandra Vellucci, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section of the United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by Spokespersons for and Representatives of the World Health Organization, the Secretariat of the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, the World Food Programme, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the International Organization for Migration.Situation in the Horn of Africa Christiane Berthiaume of the World Food Programme (WFP) said that WFP condemned in...

Alessandra Vellucci, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section of the United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by Spokespersons for and Representatives of the Secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the United Nations Refugee Agency and the International Organization for Migration.Situation in the Horn of Africa Elisabeth Byrs of the Office for the Coordination of...

Alessandra Vellucci, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section of the United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing which was also attended by Spokespersons for and Representatives of the World Health Organization, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the Food and Agriculture Organization, the United Nations Children's Fund and the United Nations Refugee Agency.Horn of Africa Tarik Jasarevic of the World Health Organization said that there was still a high risk of disease outbreaks in drought-affected areas, mainly due to poor access to potable water,...