Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, or OCHA, in the Senegalese capital, Dakar.
John Holmes is Undersecretary General of the United Nations for Humanitarian Affairs and emergency relief coordinator.
Ali Doy is an analyst for the United Nation's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Somalia.
The European commissioner for humanitarian affairs is among a scrum of foreign dignitaries touring the drought zone right now.
The U.N. humanitarian affairs office says the number of refugees is expected to double next year to 1.1 million.
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, a spokesman for the office said.
Members of the U.N. humanitarian affairs office have deployed to Tai to coordinate relief efforts there with local authorities.
The UN's Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs, Valerie Amos, sounded a note of caution on the prospect of ending the arms embargo.
Mr. JOHN HOLMES (Undersecretary General, United Nations for Humanitarian Affairs): A pleasure.
The UN's Head of Humanitarian Affairs in Haiti, Nigel Fisher, acknowledged the new information but said he could not comment on its substance.
"Many of the camps are located in low-lying coastal areas, susceptible to tidal surge, " said the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
The United Nations announced Monday that Valerie Amos, its under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, will visit Damascus and Beirut, Lebanon, starting Tuesday.
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in New York.
The UN's Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Valerie Amos, has said she has been given permission to visit Syria on Wednesday and that she would call for "unhindered access for humanitarian aid".
He wants, for instance, to abolish the way foreign-policy jobs were dished out under Mr Santer by geography, and to allocate them instead along such lines as humanitarian affairs and security.
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The UN's Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs, Kanzo Oshima, says he is still waiting for a response after offering to send UN staff back into Afghanistan if the Taleban will guarantee their safety.
After days of trying to obtain permission from Syrian authorities to travel to the country, Valerie Amos, U.N. under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, will arrive Wednesday in Damascus, she said.
More than 170 supply trucks crossed into Gaza on Monday, less than a third of the daily number that crossed in 2005, said John Holmes, U.N. under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator.
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Barbara Manzi, head of the United Nations Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), told the BBC from Sittwe it appeared the boats "left the camp with the blessing of the authorities before hitting rocks".
Mr. JAN EGELAND (Undersecretary General, Humanitarian Affairs, U.N.): We as humanitarians are now resigning to the fact that we will have to hang in there by our fingernails still for months to come before there might be a stronger security force.
"It does seem to represent a recognition on the part of authorities of the need to introduce some reforms in these areas in order to increase production, and to produce some incentive mechanisms, " said Kenzo Oshima, UN under-secretary general for humanitarian affairs.
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