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.
Windhoek, Namibia ¡ª The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ), in collaboration with the Capricorn Foundation and the University of Namibia (UNAM), recently conducted a three-day transformative hands-on training on value addition in the Hardap Region of Namibia.
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).
YANGON ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ last weekend began distributing relief food assistance for families affected by recent floods in Myanmar¡¯s Ayeyarwady Delta Region.
LUANDA - The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has received a contribution of US$900,000 through the United States Agency for International Development¡¯s (USAID) Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) for its refugee response operation.
HARARE ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) today welcomed a contribution of US$ 1.4 million (JPY 200,000,000) from the Government of Japan. This funding will allow Â鶹ÊÓƵ to support approximately 26,000 people affected by the ongoing El Ni?o-induced drought in Zimbabwe.
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.
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.
Diseases, high food insecurity, and limited access to safe drinking water are driving up acute malnutrition among vulnerable children
ADEN, Yemen, 18 August 2024 ¨C Acute malnutrition is rapidly increasing in Government of Yemen (GoY)-controlled areas, with the West Coast experiencing ¡°extremely critical¡± levels for the first time, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) Technical Working Group in Yemen said today.
This is a summary of what was said by Â鶹ÊÓƵ Sudan¡¯s Spokesperson Leni Kinzli, to whom quoted text may be attributed?¨C?at a press briefing In Geneva today.
KABUL ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) in Afghanistan welcomes a contribution of US$280 million from the USA through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). This funding will allow Â鶹ÊÓƵ to support more than 3 million hungry people with life-saving food assistance and treat more than 900,000 malnourished children and women. Further, the funding will help Â鶹ÊÓƵ keep the United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) operational.
Maseru¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) today welcomed a JPY 200 million (US$ 1.27 Million) contribution by the Government of Japan to strengthen food assistance support to 50,000 pre-primary school children through the Government of Lesotho¡¯s national school feeding programme.
KABUL ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) in Afghanistan welcomes a contribution of ?40 million (over US$50 million) from the United Kingdom¡¯s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). With this funding, Â鶹ÊÓƵ will be able to support more than 1.2 million people with emergency food assistance. Furthermore, Â鶹ÊÓƵ plans to provide preventive malnutrition treatment for nearly 150,000 children and more than 140,000 pregnant and breastfeeding mothers. Finally, this funding will enable 77,000 food-insecure people to participate in asset creation projects that help communities become more productive and resilient to the impacts of the climate crisis.
Ramallah ¨C?The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomed the lifesaving contribution of JPY 400 million (US$ 2.5 million) to provide emergency food and nutrition assistance to severely food-insecure Palestinians affected by the ongoing war in Gaza and violence in the West Bank.
Bhubaneshwar: Â鶹ÊÓƵ and the Government of Odisha today launched India¡¯s first around the clock grain dispensing machine, the 'Grain ATM,' also known as 'Annapurti' (Hindi for fulfiller of food), in the state capital Bhubaneshwar. Odisha has become the first state in India to provide access to the public distribution system beneficiaries 24 hours a day. The machine was inaugurated by Krushna Chandra Patra, Minister of Food Supplies, Consumer Welfare, Science and Technology of the Odisha Government, and Nozomi Hashimoto, Deputy Country Director for Â鶹ÊÓƵ in India.
JUBA - A cargo aircraft chartered by the UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and operated by a commercial operator caught fire after landing at Pieri airstrip in South Sudan¡¯s Jonglei State on Thursday, 8 August.
MAPUTO - The Government of Japan has allocated JPY 300 million -approximately US$2 million to the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) to provide crucial humanitarian assistance to conflict-affected populations in northern Mozambique.
CAIRO ¨C The Ministry of Planning, Economic Development and International Cooperation and the United Nations (UN) Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) are inviting start-ups with climate innovation solutions that are operational in Egypt to apply for a grant to support affordable, inclusive and high-impact innovations that enhance climate adaptation and food security.
BAGHDAD ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomed a generous contribution of US$2.2 million from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Bureau of Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) to support internally displaced Iraqis, as well as Syrian refugees, living in camps in northern Iraq.
YANGON ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has launched an emergency relief response to assist more than a hundred thousand people affected by ongoing floods in five states and regions in Myanmar.
DAKAR ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has received a food aid contribution of 11,520 MT of rice from the Republic of Korea to meet the emergency food and nutrition needs of 81,600 Malian refugees and 287,000 school children across Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania, and Sierra Leone.
WINDHOEK- The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ), in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture (MoEAC) and the Government of the Federative Republic of Brazil recently visited the Stampriet Combined School in the Hardap region of Namibia, to assess the progress made since the launch of the Home-Grown School Feeding Programme (HGSFP) and School-Based Integrated Food Systems Project in 2021.
NEW YORK ¨C? Thank you, Mr. President [His Excellency Mr. Michael Imran Kanu, PR of Sierra Leone], for this opportunity to brief the Council on the humanitarian disaster now unfolding in Sudan.
MOGADISHU ¨C Concluding a three-day mission to Somalia where famine was averted in 2022, Â鶹ÊÓƵ Deputy Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer, Carl Skau stressed that there is no time to rest, as needs in the country remain critically high.
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.
