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Washington, DC (April 29, 2024)¡ªUnited Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) Goodwill Ambassador and multi-platinum global recording artist Abel ¡°The Weeknd¡± Tesfaye is allocating another $2 million from his XO Humanitarian Fund toward Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s humanitarian response efforts in Gaza. This support will provide over 1,500 metric tons of fortified wheat flour, which can make over 18 million loaves of bread that can help feed more than 157,000 Palestinians for one month.
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.
KAMPALA ¨C The Government of the People¡¯s Republic of China has provided funding to the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) for the provision of school meals to over 165,000 children in Karamoja region in Northeastern Uganda.
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.
CAIRO ¨C Yesterday, the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) in Egypt and the European Commission¡¯s Service for Foreign Policy Instruments (FPI) launched a new partnership to empower refugees, people affected by crisis, and host communities in Egypt by improving their self-reliance and fostering social cohesion.
KAMPALA ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has welcomed a contribution of US$11 million from USAID, on behalf of the American people. This additional funding brings USAID¡¯s total support for refugees in Uganda to nearly $83 million since the beginning of Fiscal Year 2023. The funding provides life-saving unconditional monthly general food assistance to over 1.3 million refugees across 13 settlements in Uganda.
LUSAKA - The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and CGIAR, have renewed their partnership through a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), to strengthen food and nutrition security in Zambia as the country grapples with a widespread El Ni?o induced drought and the climate crisis.
DILI ¨C Timor-Leste¡¯s second round of Integrated Phase Classification (IPC) Acute Food Insecurity analysis published today reveals the fragility and deteriorating levels of food insecurity in twelve out of fourteen municipalities in Timor-Leste, amid the highest inflation rate in a decade and successive climate shocks and soaring food prices.
SANAA - The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) in Yemen has received a new $4.85 million grant from Saudi Arabia through KSrelief to address moderate acute malnutrition among children under five and pregnant and breastfeeding women.
NAIROBI / RIYADH ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has today signed two agreements with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for a total value of US$1.4 million to treat and prevent malnutrition across Sudan and South Sudan.
NAIROBI: The Kingdom of the Netherlands, the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ), the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and the Counties of Marsabit and Turkana have signed an agreement to sustainably improve the livelihoods, food security and nutrition of communities living along the shores of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya.
KYIV/RIYADH ¨C The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSrelief) contributed $10 million to the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) to support Ukrainians affected by the war with daily hot meals in 1,200 institutions across the country.
N¡¯DJAMENA ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a contribution of approximately US$ 7.6 million (JPY 1.1billion) from the Government of Japan to support the Chadian Government emergency response to crisis-affected communities in Chad.
PORT SUDAN ¨C Sudan¡¯s war has claimed thousands of lives, forced millions from their homes, and sparked economic turmoil across the region that is deepening the hunger crisis, warns the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) as the conflict approaches its one-year mark.
DAKAR ¨C Nearly 55 million people in West and Central Africa will struggle to feed themselves in the June-August 2024 lean season, according to the March 2024 Cadre Harmonis¨¦ food security analysis released by the Permanent Inter-State Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS).
Port-au-Prince ¨C Amidst ongoing violence in Haiti, the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has rapidly expanded its food assistance, reaching more than half a million people since the start of the current crisis in March this year. Â鶹ÊÓƵ is reaching vulnerable communities with food distributions including hot meals for people living in temporary shelters in conflict-affected Port-au-Prince, cash disbursements and school meals.
MANILA ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) Executive Director Cindy McCain today called for strengthened partnerships in Asia and the Pacific, to increase climate resilience and financing for smallholder communities vulnerable to food insecurity. She was speaking at the Asian Development Bank¡¯s (ADB) Asia and the Pacific Food Security Forum in the Philippines.
Rome/Riyadh ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomed today a generous contribution of USD 5 million from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia through the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSrelief) to support its operations in Palestine.
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.
WINDHOEK ¨C The Republic of Namibia has achieved high food self-sufficiency levels, thanks to sustained output from smallholder and large-scale farmers and Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s support for end-to-end food systems in Namibia. For the first time in fifteen years, the country has reached 45 percent self-sufficiency.
ROME¡ª The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has launched a Â鶹ÊÓƵ Road Safety Academy in Dubai (UAE), to improve training of drivers, enhance fleet management and support safer journeys.
Kinshasa¡ª The UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes two generous contributions to its programmes in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), totalling around US$10.4 million from the Government of Japan at a time of unprecedented funding shortage.
Vientiane: The Embassies of France and Germany in Lao PDR will visit this week United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ)-backed school meals and nutrition programmes in the southern Sekong and Salavanh provinces. These initiatives, funded by both governments, are essential in enabling women and young girls to access nutrition and education, especially as they continue facing disproportionate impacts from food insecurity and economic instability.
LILONGWE ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is appealing for urgent resources to deliver life-saving food assistance to two million people reeling from the devastating impacts of drought, exacerbated by the effects of El Ni?o. This comes just days after Malawi¡¯s President Lazarus Chakwera declared a state of disaster.
