DAKAR, Senegal ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) sounded the alarm today as persistent conflict, displacement, economic deterioration, and recurrent extreme weather in West and Central Africa are driving millions of people towards emergency levels of hunger (IPC4).
CONAKRY, Guinea - The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a US$4 million contribution from the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) to develop a rice value chain, enabling communities to access nutritious food, become self-sufficient and resilient to weather-related shocks in Guinea.
CONAKRY- The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a EUR 1.5 million contribution from France for the provision of food and nutrition support to women, children, and farmers in Beyla and Lola prefectures of the Forest Guinea region.
DAKAR ¨CThe United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) in partnership with the Economic Community for West African States (ECOWAS), the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ), and the Senegalese Ministry of Economy, Plan and Cooperation, today launched the annual forum of intergovernmental organisations from West Africa, to examine and address the impact of emerging risks and challenges associated with the COVID-19 pandemic and the unfolding crisis in Ukraine.
DAKAR ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) today warned that its UN Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) ¨C that provides crucial transport links for humanitarian responders to the world¡¯s most remote and challenging locations - will be forced to ground its planes in Guinea and Niger by August 2022 if additional funding of US$ 6.4 million is not urgently provided. This situation risks cutting off crisis-affected communities from life-saving aid at a time of unprecedented humanitarian needs.
SEOUL ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a US$ 2 million contribution from the Republic of Korea towards its school feeding operations in three African countries - Guinea, Rwanda, and Benin. This will help ensure that school aged children have access to school meals, as well as support governments to scale up and improve the quality of their national school feeding programmes
BEIJING - The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and the Government of China have signed agreements to provide food assistance to vulnerable people in Ethiopia and Guinea whose food security is being further undermined by the socio-economic effects of COVID-19. The resulting loss of jobs in the casual labour market and the loss of remittances sent from abroad have had a huge impact on poor familes in many parts of the world.
