The United Nations today launched a $1.7 billion appeal to provide a range of relief services to some 26 million people struggling to survive the ravages of war and other emergencies, mainly in Africa.
The United Nations will ask donors at a meeting later this week in New York for more than $1 billion to address the world's “forgotten emergencies” – crises spawned by conflict, natural disasters or both.
In the face of increasing attacks on aid workers worldwide, the top United Nations humanitarian official is calling for a clear line between impartial relief personnel and those operating with a political or military agenda.
A six-member team from the United Nations refugee agency is headed to eastern Chad to help relocate tens of thousands of Sudanese refugees from insecure areas near the border with Sudan.
