Browsing: Stephen O’Brien

Guterres said the release of the funds would help to sustain relief operations in what he termed the world’s most neglected crises, according to a statement issued by the secretary-general’s office

It said: “United Nations humanitarian chief Stephen O’Brien has released US$13 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF), to provide life-saving assistance to 250,000 people in parts of the North-East of Nigeria

The UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Stephen O’Brien, told the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday in Abuja that the rescue of one of the Chibok girls renewed the hope of finding the other girls

Pond said O’Brien would have a first-hand assessment of the humanitarian crisis caused by the Boko Haram insurgency at Diffa and Maiduguri, before visiting Abuja

It said that women and girls kidnapped by Boko Haram have been subjected to physical and psychological abuse, forced labour, forced marriage and sexual slavery

O’Brien, who was also the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, said on Tuesday at the launching in Geneva that the amount for the “Global Humanitarian Overview 2016” was five times the amount appealed for a decade ago