Regional Humanitarian Update October 2009 United Nations
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - UNOCHA REGIONAL OFFICE FOR THE MIDDLE EAST, NORTH AFRICA AND CENTRAL ASIA - ROMENACA Regional Humanitarian Update October 2009 United Nations The Humanitarian Update is a monthly publication from UN OCHA’s Regional Office in Cairo, reporting on the main humanitarian events in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia. For more information on Iraq or OPT, please visit www.ochairaq.org and www.ochaopt.org YEMEN Aid workers must be enabled to reach all in need UN staff in Afghanistan pay their final respects to two colleagues from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) election team, killed on 28 October in an attack on a » Kabul guest house. Photo / United Nations Photo The United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, On 5 October 2009, a suicide bombing in the Islamabad Mr. John Holmes, was on a fact finding mission to Yemen Headquarters of United Nations’ World Food Program (WFP) from 8 to 11 October 2009. During his mission, Mr. Holmes marks the first time where UN Offices were directly targeted visited internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Hajjah in Pakistan. Five UN employees tragically lost their lives Governorate to see their situation on the ground. During and another five were injured. Following this attack and his visit, Mr. Holmes met H.E. President Ali Abdullah Saleh, subsequent security incidents in the country, security has the Prime Minister, the Foreign Minister and a number remained a major concern impeding humanitarian assistance of other key Yemeni officials, as well as humanitarian and restricting access to thousands of vulnerable populations.
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