Statement attributable to UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Ted Chaiban and Â鶹ÊÓƵ Deputy Executive Director Carl Skau
BEIRUT, 14 October 2024 ¨C ¡°During a three-day visit to Lebanon, we witnessed the devastation and sensed people¡¯s fear and confusion. For them, the future remains uncertain as long as their country is under fire. The war that the world wanted to avoid in Lebanon is now happening and has already triggered a catastrophe.
JERUSALEM -?The UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ today warned that escalating violence in northern Gaza is having a disastrous impact on food security for thousands of Palestinian families, noting that the main crossings into the north have been closed and no food aid has entered since 1 October.?
ABUJA - Amidst rising food insecurity and malnutrition in Nigeria, the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) Executive Director, Cindy McCain, urges public and private sector leaders to work together to tackle the root causes of hunger and build peace in Nigeria, as she concludes a visit to the country.
ROME ¨C The Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) announced today it is pausing the movement of its employees in Gaza until further notice after a Â鶹ÊÓƵ team came under fire on the evening of 27 August, a few metres from an Israeli check point at the Wadi Gaza bridge.
CAIRO ¨C Ten months into the war, Palestinians in Gaza are crowded into an ever-shrinking space without adequate sanitation or healthcare and are repeatedly uprooted by evacuation orders that also disrupt the aid centres intended to support them, including the food distributions and community kitchens supported by the UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ).
KYIV¨C Nearly half a million pensioners living in frontline regions received cash assistance from the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) through a joint programme with the Ministry of Social Policy and the Pension Fund of Ukraine.
Situation in Zamzam camp - home to more than 400,000 displaced people ¨C has passed famine thresholds, according to Famine Review Committee.
ROME/NEW YORK/PORT SUDAN, 1 August 2024 ¨C After more than 15 months of war in Sudan, a catastrophic combination of conflict, displacement and humanitarian access constraints has resulted in famine in a camp sheltering hundreds of thousands of displaced people in Sudan¡¯s North Darfur Region.
JERUSALEM ¨C As fighting escalates in the south and centre of Gaza, the toll on civilians is devastating, and the continued hostile operating environment make it near-impossible for humanitarian operations to deliver desperately needed food aid, warned Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s Deputy Executive Director, Carl Skau as he today concluded a two day- mission to Gaza.
PORT SUDAN/NAIROBI ¡ª The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and the African Development Bank (AfDB) announced today that the AfDB-financed Sudan Emergency Wheat Production Project had increased wheat production in the country by up to 70% in targeted project locations across five states in the last year. This development comes at a critical time as Sudan is facing a looming hunger catastrophe due to the ongoing conflict, which also impeded the past agricultural season.
KYIV ¨C Thanks to generous funding from the government of France and private donors, the UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) helped schools serve 5.6 million hot meals for close to 90,000 primary school children in the 2023-2024 academic year in Ukraine.
PORT SUDAN ¨C The UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is urgently expanding its emergency food and nutrition assistance in war-torn Sudan amid the looming threat of famine, as conditions for civilians deteriorate and fighting intensifies in battle zones like El Fasher and Khartoum
PORT SUDAN/NAIROBI ¨C The UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ warns that the window to save lives is closing as famine looms in Sudan¡¯s war-torn regions with civilians trapped by intensified fighting in northern Darfur; the rainy season set to start in the coming month making critical transport routes inaccessible; and as the lean season - when food stocks run out and hunger peaks ¨C hits. ?
PORT SUDAN ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) warns that time is running out to prevent starvation in Darfur as intensifying clashes in North Darfur¡¯s capital El Fasher hinder efforts to deliver vital food assistance into the region.
East Jerusalem ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomed US$10 million from the Government of Japan to provide wheat flour for more than 520,000 internally displaced people in Gaza inside and outside shelters.
N¡¯DJAMENA ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a contribution of approximately US$ 7.6 million (JPY 1.1billion) from the Government of Japan to support the Chadian Government emergency response to crisis-affected communities in Chad.
YOKOHAMA ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a grant of JPY 5 billion (about US$34 million) from the Government of Japan to support Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s emergency assistance to improve food security in 15 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Thank you, Mr. President, thank you for this opportunity to brief the Council on the rapidly worsening food security situation in Sudan and the profound regional implications of this crisis.
ROME ¨C Famine is imminent in the northern part of the Gaza Strip and the entire population of Gaza is facing crisis levels of food insecurity or worse, according to the new Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report released today.
ROME ¨C The humanitarian situation in Myanmar is rapidly deteriorating. Conflict is intensifying and humanitarian access is increasingly restricted, while funding is falling short. More than 2.7 million people are displaced and one in every four is at risk of acute food insecurity.
JUBA ¨C Sudan¡¯s war has shattered millions of lives and created the world¡¯s largest displacement crisis. Now this catastrophe also risks becoming the world¡¯s largest hunger crisis, unless fighting stops, the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) Executive Director Cindy McCain warns today as she concludes a visit to South Sudan, where she met families fleeing violence and an escalating hunger emergency in Sudan.
Port Sudan/Nairobi ¨C A shipment of wheat donated by Ukraine to the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) Sudan operation has arrived in Port Sudan and is being loaded onto Â鶹ÊÓƵ trucks for emergency food distributions. This in-kind food donation will be a core part of food rations provided to one million conflict-affected people in Sudan for one month.
NEW YORK ¨C The Â鶹ÊÓƵ Deputy Executive Director Carl Skau addressed the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday 27 February on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. He was speaking at a High-Level Open Debate on the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict.
KINSHASA ¨C The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) are calling for immediate action to protect children and families caught in the escalating violence in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where an increasing number of people, including children, have been wounded or killed near makeshift camps. Both agencies call on all parties to the conflict to prioritize the protection of civilians and allow humanitarian agencies to do their work.
NEW YORK/GENEVA/ROME ¨C In the less than five months that followed the brutal 7 October attacks and the ensuing escalation, tens of thousands of Palestinians ¨C mostly women and children ¨C have been killed and injured in the Gaza Strip. More than three quarters of the population have been forced from their homes, many multiple times, and face severe shortages of food, water, sanitation and healthcare ¨C the basic necessities to survive.
