ROME ¨C As global leaders and experts convene in Paris for the fourth Nutrition for Growth Summit, the UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ is calling for greater focus and action to prevent wasting - the deadliest form of malnutrition - before its life-threatening impacts are felt in children. Action before malnutrition takes hold is crucial.
RIYADH ¨C As 343 million people around the globe face acute hunger, the Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSrelief) have renewed their commitment to boost humanitarian aid and relief efforts globally ¨C bolstering the longstanding alliance between the UN agency and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to bring hope and alleviate food insecurity around the world.
ROME ¨C The Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) and the UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) today launched an innovative financing initiative to boost funds available for governments to combat child malnutrition and expand school meals programmes.
SEOUL/ROME - The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has welcomed a timely contribution of US$10 million from the Republic of Korea (ROK), which will enable Â鶹ÊÓƵ to provide humanitarian assistance to vulnerable families in Kenya and Ghana. ROK has also pledged to increase its annual rice contribution to Â鶹ÊÓƵ from 100,000 metric tonnes in 2024 to 150,000 metric tonnes next year, which helped over 7 million most in need in 11 countries this year.
Statement attributable to Cindy McCain, Executive Director of the Â鶹ÊÓƵ
ROME ¨C I am shocked and heartbroken by the tragic deaths of three members of the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Sudan country team, who lost their lives after an aerial bombardment hit the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Field Office Compound in Yabus, Blue Nile State on the evening of Thursday 19 December.
ROME - The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) Executive Director, Cindy McCain, who is also the current Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) principals Champion on Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse and Sexual Harassment (PSEAH), has convened a new advisory group to strengthen and customize support for victims and survivors of sexual exploitation and abuse.
Hunger is nearing levels that were last seen during the global food crisis sparked by the pandemic.
ROME ¡ªThe United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has launched its 2025 Global Outlook, calling for US$16.9 billion to address global food needs and the alarming gap between needs and resources.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ trucks arrive in famine-hit Zamzam camp in North Darfur; Over 700 trucks on the road to locations across Sudan
PORT SUDAN ¨C The UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) today announced a surge in its operations across Sudan, part of a scale-up effort to reach millions of people in the country¡¯s most needy and isolated conflict areas.
WASHINGTON, DC ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) today announced Antoni Porowski¡ªculinary expert from the Emmy Award-winning Netflix series Queer Eye, New York Times bestselling author and executive producer and host of National Geographic¡¯s upcoming docuseries No Taste Like Home¡ªas their newest Goodwill Ambassador.
ROME ¨C The first Â鶹ÊÓƵ food supplies destined for desperate communities in Sudan¡¯s Darfur have crossed the Adre border from Chad, after it was reopened by the Sudanese authorities following a six-month closure.
GENEVA/NEW YORK/ROME: Three United Nations agencies today issued a stark warning that all indications point to a significant deterioration of the nutrition situation for children and mothers in war-torn Sudan. The lives of Sudan¡¯s children are at stake and urgent action is needed to protect an entire generation from malnutrition, disease and death.
ANTIGUA ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) today called for urgent global support for small island nations disproportionately impacted by the climate crisis, including many now bracing for what is expected to be an intense and destructive Atlantic hurricane season. The announcement came as the 4th International Small Island Developing States (SIDS) conference concluded today in the Caribbean twin island nation of Antigua and Barbuda.
ROME ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes the announcement of supplemental emergency humanitarian assistance from the United States government which will be critical in preventing famine and saving millions of lives.
PORT SUDAN ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has managed to bring desperately needed food and nutrition supplies into Darfur, the first Â鶹ÊÓƵ assistance to reach the war-wracked region in months. Yet, the UN food agency warns that unless the people of Sudan receive a constant flow of aid via all possible humanitarian corridors ¨C from neighbouring countries and across battle lines ¨C the country¡¯s hunger catastrophe will only worsen.
GOMA ¨C The Democratic Republic of the Congo¡¯s conflict-driven hunger crisis is worsening as violence in the eastern provinces surges, forcing families to flee again. While more and more people arrive in already overcrowded camps, the UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is struggling to feed those most in need, because humanitarian funding fails to keep pace.
PORT-AU-PRINCE ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is today warning that Haiti is on the edge of a devastating hunger crisis, with humanitarian operations at risk of grinding to a halt, as rampant insecurity limits access to communities and donor funding dries up.
CAIRO/ROME ¨C The Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) announced today the appointment of Tunisian tennis star Ons Jabeur as its newest Global Goodwill Ambassador. Recognized for her athletic prowess and commitment to social causes, Jabeur will use her influential voice to raise awareness about global food insecurity and support Â鶹ÊÓƵ's mission to end hunger.
ROME - The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) Executive Director, Cindy McCain, has assumed the role of Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) principals Champion on Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse and Sexual Harassment (PSEAH), taking over from Andrew Morley, President of World Vision International.
Rome ¨C To make a dent in spiralling global hunger, the world must rapidly scale up protection for vulnerable people on the frontlines of the climate crisis, the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) warned today, a week before world leaders meet in Dubai for the next UN Climate Summit, COP28. Last year alone, climate extremes pushed a staggering 56.8 million people into acute food insecurity.
ROME - Today¡¯s agreement to a humanitarian pause in fighting in Gaza is an important and welcome first step. As hunger threatens the lives of nearly every civilian in Gaza, this agreement must be upheld in full to allow food and other life-saving supplies to reach those who so desperately need it.
ROME ¨C Today, Cindy McCain, the Executive Director of the Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and Dr. Sultan Al Jaber, the President of the UN Conference on Climate Change (COP28), called for urgent action to scale up climate action in fragile and conflict-affected settings.
CAIRO ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) Executive Director, Cindy McCain issued an urgent plea from the Rafah border crossing for safe, expanded humanitarian access to Gaza as humanitarian needs skyrocket and critical food supplies reach dangerously low levels.
ROME ¨C?In a private audience at the Vatican, Pope Francis received the UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ Executive Director Cindy McCain to discuss the urgent need to tackle the food insecurity and humanitarian crises besetting the planet.
