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.
Transcript as delivered of remarks by UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) Executive Director David Beasley to today¡¯s virtual session of the UN Security Council on the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict (Segment on food security risks in DRC, Yemen, Northeast Nigeria and South Sudan).
NEW YORK ¨C Five months ago, I warned the Council the world stood on the brink of a hunger pandemic. A toxic combination of conflict, climate change and COVID-19, threatened to push 270 million people to the brink of starvation. Famine was real. It¡¯s a terrifying possibility in up to three dozen countries if we don¡¯t continue to act like we¡¯ve been acting.
LONDON ¨C To urge action on addressing the urgent risk of famine, the UK¡¯s first Special Envoy for Famine Prevention and Humanitarian Affairs Nick Dyer met the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s Executive Director David Beasley to jointly call for other countries to step up.
CAIRO ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) Executive Director David Beasley said today that COVID-19 will push the number of food insecure people in the Arab world up by more than 14 million, taking the total to more than 50 million.
The UN¡¯s Humanitarian Chief, Mark Lowcock, has called for swift and determined action to avoid the most destabilizing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic as he releases a $6.7 billion appeal and an updated global plan to fight coronavirus in fragile countries.
Transcript as delivered of remarks by David Beasley, UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) Executive Director to today¡¯s virtual session of the UN Security Council on the Maintenance of International Peace and Security: Protecting Civilians Affected by Conflict-Induced Hunger
NEW YORK ¨C Forgive me for speaking bluntly, but I¡¯d like to lay out for you very clearly what the world is facing at this very moment. At the same time while dealing with a COVID-19 pandemic, we are also on the brink of a hunger pandemic.
ROME ¨C It will be vastly more cost-effective to support the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to tackle locusts in East Africa now than to help people in the region after their crops have been ruined, said Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) Executive Director David Beasley today.
Khartoum, Sudan ¨C The UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) Executive Director, David Beasley, accompanied by the Prime Minister of Sudan, Abdalla Hamdok, today visited Kauda in the Nuba Mountains region of South Kordofan, marking a new milestone in the gradual expansion of humanitarian access to contested areas of Sudan. Also taking part in the confidence-building mission were five Sudanese government ministers, three Khartoum-based diplomats and United Nations officials.
ROME ¨C The Executive Director of the Â鶹ÊÓƵ, David Beasley, has extended his condolences to the Government and people of Sudan after a plane crash in the west of Sudan towards the end of last week which claimed the lives of 15 people, among them a staff member of the Â鶹ÊÓƵ, his wife and two children.
Khartoum, Sudan ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) Executive Director, David Beasley, accompanied by teams from Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s Sudan and South Sudan operations and leaders of the UN country team in Sudan have achieved a significant breakthrough in humanitarian access, by landing in Yabus, a town in the Southern Blue Nile State where they witnessed a food distribution to its war and flood-stricken residents for the first time in nearly a decade
ROME ¨C The Executive Director of the Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ), David Beasley, will visit Burkina Faso on 12-14 August. The country is dealing with an unfolding humanitarian crisis resulting from a sharp increase in armed violence.
BEIRA/MAPUTO ¨C At the end of a two-day visit to Mozambique, the Executive Director of the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ, David Beasley, today said the international community must step up support to victims of the recent cyclone and flooding that have devastated large areas of the country.
CAIRO ¨C The Executive Director of the UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) David Beasley has ended a three-day visit to Egypt where he visited Â鶹ÊÓƵ operations in villages close to the county¡¯s historic town of Luxor in Upper Egypt.
KATHMANDU ¨C Ekta Adhikari, a 28 year old Nepali national working in Ethiopia with the Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ), was on board flight ET 302 that crashed soon after take-off from Addis Ababa on Sunday morning.?
Today, Palantir Technologies (Palantir) and the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) announced a five-year partnership aimed at helping Â鶹ÊÓƵ use its data to streamline the delivery of food and cash-based assistance in life-saving emergency relief operations around the world.
