BEIRUT ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has received a generous contribution of €1.5 million from the Italian Cooperation to support the school meals programme in Lebanon that provides nutritious meals and snacks for over 100,000 boys and girls in 185 public schools across the country.
ROME ¨C Efforts by the UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) to deliver desperately needed food supplies to Northern Gaza resumed today but were largely unsuccessful.
Dhaka, Bangladesh ¨C The Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has received a new contribution of US$5.4 million from the Government of Japan. A handover ceremony was held in Dhaka earlier this week with the participation of H.E. Ambassador of Japan to Bangladesh Kiminori Iwama, and Â鶹ÊÓƵ Bangladesh Country Director Dom Scalpelli.
BEIRUT ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomed a new contribution of AUD 4 million (USD 2.63 million) from the Government of Australia enabling Â鶹ÊÓƵ to provide critical food and cash assistance to vulnerable people in Lebanon.
PORT-AU-PRINCE ¨C The Government of Japan and United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) will cooperate to provide vouchers to help nearly 4,000 Haitian households meet their basic food needs over the course of the next 12 months.
KABUL ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) in Afghanistan welcomes a generous contribution of EUR 20.1 million (US$21.4 million) from the European Union. With this funding, Â鶹ÊÓƵ will be able to improve household food security and community resilience for over 300,000 Afghans across 26 provinces, including vulnerable displaced Afghans who are resettling in certain areas.
ABUJA ¨CThe United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) today welcomes a generous donation of 25,000 tons of wheat from the Government of Ukraine that will help provide emergency food assistance to 1.3 million crisis-affected people in northeast Nigeria.
BOGOTA - The results of the latest food security assessment by the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) in Colombia shows a 5 percent reduction in food insecurity, with 13 million people facing moderate or severe food insecurity - down from 15 million the previous year.
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 successive climate shocks and soaring food prices.
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.
KAMPALA ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) in Uganda welcomes a generous contribution of 2,000 metric tons of rice worth JPY 300 million (USD 2.2 million) from the Government of Japan. The contribution will enable Â鶹ÊÓƵ to provide hot meals to 50,000 newly arriving refugees in 2024/2025.
MASERU ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has welcomed a €600,000 contribution from the Principality of Monaco for the period of 2023-2026, to help provide meals to school children and training for smallholder farmers as part of the national home-grown school feeding activities in the Kingdom of Lesotho.
Seoul/Kabul - The United Nations World Food Program (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) Korea office announced that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea recently donated $4 million to Â鶹ÊÓƵ Afghanistan. Donations will be used to provide emergency food and nutrition support to save lives and prevent famine in Afghanistan, where the food crisis is severe.
LUSAKA ¨C With US$500,000 from Citi Foundation, the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is ramping up a ground-breaking initiative that seeks to strengthen resilience to climate crises and boost financial inclusion for 17,200 smallholder farmers in Zambia over the next two years.
KINSHASA ¨C The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) are calling for immediate action to protect children and families caught in the escalating violence in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where an increasing number of people, including children, have been wounded or killed near makeshift camps. Both agencies call on all parties to the conflict to prioritize the protection of civilians and allow humanitarian agencies to do their work.
Islamabad, Pakistan ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) supported over 180,000 vulnerable flood-affected people through multipurpose cash interventions in seven districts of the Sindh province in 2023. This critical support was made possible through a EUR 3 million contribution from the European Union¡¯s Humanitarian Aid Operations department.
ABUJA ¨C Amid rising inflation and high food prices exacerbated by market speculation in Nigeria, the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) today announced it is reviewing its local food procurement and will buy food in Nigeria only in stable market conditions.
MAPUTO ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has today welcomed a US$ 4 million contribution from Republic of Korea to boost food security and empower tens of thousands of people whose lives have been shattered by the ongoing conflict in northern Mozambique.
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.
DAKAR ¨C Amid persistently high humanitarian needs in West and Central Africa, the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is calling on governments and partners to safeguard resilience-building programmes that help crisis-affected communities withstand shocks and meet their own food and nutrition needs. This will prevent a reversal of hard-won development gains in the region and help reduce humanitarian needs over time.
Suva, Fiji - The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Government of Fiji to reinforce its partnership with the Ministry of Women, Children and Social Protection, through a pilot Anticipatory Action programme that aims to proactively shield communities in Fiji from the devastating impacts of tropical cyclones.
ROME ¨C The UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is pausing deliveries of life-saving food aid to northern Gaza until conditions are in place that allow for safe distributions.
JUBA ¨C At least 25 million people are struggling with soaring rates of hunger and malnutrition as the crisis in Sudan sends shockwaves around the region, the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) warns today, with thousands of families being displaced and forced across borders into Chad and South Sudan each week.
LUANG PRABANG ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) in partnership with the Government of Japan today launched a project aimed at empowering coffee farmers in two districts of Lao PDR¡¯s Luang Prabang Province. This initiative will bolster their coffee production and marketing efforts, while also improving access to and understanding of essential nutrition.
