Port Sudan ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) in Sudan welcomed a generous contribution of US$1.9 million from the Government of Japan. This will enable Â鶹ÊÓƵ to provide life-saving food assistance to some of the most vulnerable people across the country.
The situation is especially serious in the north, where one in six children under the age of two is acutely malnourished
GENEVA/NEW YORK/ROME, 19 February 2024 ¨C A steep rise in malnutrition among children and pregnant and breastfeeding women in the Gaza strip poses grave threats to their health, according to a comprehensive new analysis released by the Global Nutrition Cluster.
YOKOHAMA ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a grant of US$50 million from the Government of Japan at a time of unprecedented funding shortage. This contribution will enable Â鶹ÊÓƵ to assist vulnerable populations affected by conflict, extreme weather and economic crisis in 20 countries across mainly Asia, the Middle East and Africa.
PORT SUDAN ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) urgently calls on Sudan¡¯s warring parties to provide immediate guarantees for the safe and unimpeded delivery of humanitarian food assistance to conflict-hit parts of Sudan, especially across conflict lines where hungry displaced civilians are trapped and cut-off from life-saving humanitarian assistance.
ROME/GENEVA/NEW YORK ¨C As the risk of famine grows, and more people are exposed to deadly disease outbreaks, a fundamental step change in the flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza is urgently needed, United Nations agencies warned today. The heads of the Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ), UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO) say that getting enough supplies into and across Gaza now depends on: the opening of new entry routes; more trucks being allowed through border checks each day; fewer restrictions on the movement of humanitarian workers; and guarantees of safety for people accessing and distributing aid.
ROME ¨C More than one in four households in Gaza currently face extreme hunger, and there is a risk of famine unless access to adequate food, clean water, health and sanitation services is restored, according to a new Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report released today. IPC is a multi-stakeholder platform that analyses data to determine the severity and magnitude of hunger crises, according to internationally-recognized scientific standards.
East Jerusalem ¨C A 46-truck convoy, organized by Â鶹ÊÓƵ and the Jordan Hashemite Charity Organization (JHCO), on Wednesday carried more than 750 metric tons of life-saving food into Gaza, marking the first time a direct aid convoy from Jordan has reached the Strip since the upsurge in hostilities began on 7 October.
PORT SUDAN?¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has been forced to temporarily suspend food assistance in some parts of Gezira State, as fighting spreads south and east of Sudan¡¯s capital Khartoum. This is a major setback to humanitarian efforts in the country¡¯s breadbasket, where Â鶹ÊÓƵ had been regularly providing aid to over 800,000 people, including many who escaped the fighting in Khartoum.
PORT SUDAN ¨C Parts of war-ravaged Sudan are at a high risk of slipping into catastrophic hunger conditions by next year¡¯s lean season if the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is unable to expand access and regularly deliver food assistance to people trapped in conflict hotspots such as Khartoum, the Darfurs, and the Kordofans, warns the UN food agency today.
ROME ¨C The resumption of hostilities in Gaza will only intensify the catastrophic hunger crisis that already threatens to overwhelm the civilian population.
GAZA ¨C The UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) delivered desperately needed food to more than 120,000 people in Gaza during the initial pause in fighting but has reiterated that the supplies it was able to provide were woefully inadequate to address the level of hunger seen by staff in the UN shelters and communities.
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.
NEW YORK/GENEVA/ROME, 16 November 2023 ¨C As humanitarian leaders, our position is clear: We will not participate in the establishment of any ¡±safe zone¡± in Gaza that is set up without the agreement of all the parties, and unless fundamental conditions are in place to ensure safety and other essential needs are met and a mechanism is in place to supervise its implementation.
GAZA ¡ª With only ten percent of necessary food supplies entering Gaza since the beginning of the conflict, the Strip now faces a massive food gap and widespread hunger as nearly the entire population is in desperate need of food assistance, the UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) warned today.
ROME ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes the support of the European Union in strengthening the logistics capacity of Egyptian Red Crescent-run aid hubs in the northeast of Egypt which are a critical part of relief efforts for people in Gaza.
CAIRO ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) in Egypt received a first-of-its-kind contribution from the Swiss Development and Cooperation Agency at a total of US$1.4 million to support people who fled the violence in Sudan.
JUBA ¨C Children in flood-affected parts of South Sudan are expected to face extreme levels of malnutrition in the first half of 2024 as the climate crisis tightens its grip on the country, the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) warned today.
ROME ¨C The catastrophic conditions facing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza risk getting worse still, due to severe fuel shortages which threaten to bring food and other humanitarian operations to a standstill.
NEW YORK/GENEVA/ROME 21 October 2023 ¨C ¡°A first, but limited, shipment of life-saving humanitarian supplies from the United Nations and the Egyptian Red Crescent entered Gaza today on 20 trucks, passing through the Rafah Crossing.
ROME ¨C As humanitarian supplies converged on Egypt¡¯s border with Gaza, the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ today renewed its call for sustained humanitarian access to Gaza, where hundreds of thousands of people fleeing violence desperately need food, water and medical supplies. Â鶹ÊÓƵ already has food for 244,000 people close to the border with Gaza. More food supplies are arriving in northeastern Egypt, where an assistance hub is being set up.
ROME ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is deeply concerned by the rapidly deteriorating situation in Israel and the State of Palestine and the impact of this conflict on the affected populations.
JUBA ¨C A hunger emergency is looming on the border between South Sudan and Sudan as families fleeing fighting in Sudan continue to cross the border every day, the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) warned today. New data gathered by Â鶹ÊÓƵ shows that among the nearly 300,000 people who have arrived in South Sudan in the last five months, one in five children are malnourished and 90 percent of families say they are going multiple days without eating.
MAPUTO ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a contribution of €8.6 million from the European Union (EU) to intensify efforts in addressing food insecurity among conflict-affected populations in northern Mozambique.
