VIENTIANE ¨C Supported by the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and NGO partners, the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare, Lao PDR announced today that food distributions will be launched for families most at risk of acute food insecurity during the rainy season, approximately from June to September.
ROME ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is accelerating efforts to roll out enhanced safeguards and controls that will ensure humanitarian food assistance reaches targeted, vulnerable people across Ethiopia. This follows a joint statement by Ethiopia¡¯s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and USAID announcing their commitment to addressing deeply concerning revelations of food aid diversion.
KIGOMA - The United Nations has launched a three-year project to improve communities¡¯ resilience to climate shocks in the Kigoma region ¨C where hundreds of thousands of refugees are hosted.
Al Najaf, IRAQ ¨C The Government of Iraq¡¯s Ministry of Trade (MoT), in partnership with the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ), has successfully completed the digitalization process for the Public Distribution System (PDS) in Al-Najaf Governorate, supporting efficiency and improving services for citizens.
ROME ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a contribution of EUR 11.9 million from the European Union (EU) through its Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (DG ECHO) for the provision of EU Humanitarian Aid Flights (HAF).
ROME ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) strongly condemns the looting of one of the agency¡¯s logistics hubs in south-central Sudan. The attack on Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s warehouses in El Obeid puts food assistance for 4.4 million conflict-affected people at risk.
MASERU - The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and Government of Lesotho have today launched an innovative geospatial platform that will boost evidence-based decision making on issues of national concern and enhance overall governance.
HARARE ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) today welcomes an US$8.7 million contribution from the United States to power its resilience building activities for more than 65,000 people in five food insecure communities for the next six months.
UN agencies warn that record hunger levels in the DRC require livelihood support and long-term investment. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) call for more support to improve livelihoods while responding to emergencies.
May 29, 2023: Accra/Johannesburg/Kinshasa ¨C An estimated 6.7 million people are experiencing crisis or emergency levels of food insecurity in North and South Kivu and Ituri, representing a 10 percent increase from last year.
Bamako ¨C With a US$ 3 million (XOF 1.7 billion) contribution received from the Government of Japan, the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) will provide emergency food assistance to 43,000 people affected by conflict in Mali between June and August 2023.
DAR ES SALAAM ¨C More than 200,000 refugees in Tanzania will soon receive only half the food rations they need due to a critical funding shortage for Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s food assistance. Â鶹ÊÓƵ provides monthly in-kind food assistance to people living in refugee camps through food baskets.
SITTWE ¨C Â鶹ÊÓƵ and its local partners have reached over 230,000 people with life-saving food assistance in the wake of Cyclone Mocha, the most destructive storm to strike Myanmar in over a decade. Within 72 hours after landfall on 14 May, Â鶹ÊÓƵ began food distributions in Sittwe, Rakhine¡¯s state capital, which suffered considerable damage. The cyclone has flattened houses, destroyed livelihoods, and disrupted telecommunications, power, and supply chains.
KABUL / BEIJING ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a contribution from the Government of the People¡¯s Republic of China towards its emergency response in Afghanistan for 2023. The funding will enable Â鶹ÊÓƵ to provide life-saving food assistance to nearly 70,000 food-insecure people in areas struck by acute food insecurity.
NAIROBI ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is scaling up its emergency response to support hundreds of thousands of Kenyans affected by the impact of nearly three years of drought. Â鶹ÊÓƵ is ramping up to support more than 940,000 drought-affected people ¨C an increase from almost 600,000 people supported by Â鶹ÊÓƵ in 2022.
An estimated 17 percent of the population is in moderate acute food insecurity in Sri Lanka, especially in the Northern, Eastern and Central Provinces, indicating an improvement compared to 2022.
COLOMBO: Food security in Sri Lanka is improving across all provinces, according to the Crop and Food Security Assessment Mission (CFSAM) report jointly carried out in February/March 2023 by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ). The report estimates 3.9 million people or 17 percent of the population is in moderate acute food insecurity which is nearly a 40 percent decrease from June/July last year. Nearly 10,000 people are severely acute food-insecure, down from 66,000 people last year.
CAIRO ¨C The Government of Japan has extended its support to the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) in Egypt, contributing US$500,000 to provide critical food assistance to people fleeing the conflict in Sudan.
PORT SUDAN ¨C Distributions of United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) food assistance began on Saturday for thousands of people who have been trapped in Sudan¡¯s capital Khartoum since fighting broke out six weeks ago. The distributions come in the last days of the seven-day ceasefire agreed by both conflict parties, which is set to expire on Monday evening.
DHAKA ¨C Just weeks after thousands of Rohingya refugees lost their homes to Cyclone Mocha, they face another blow as funding shortages force the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) to cut food vouchers in Cox¡¯s Bazar to just US$ 8, or less than 9 cents per meal.
May 25 2023, ADEN ¨C The food security situation in Yemen¡¯s districts under the control of the Government of Yemen (GoY) slightly improved during the first five months of this year, while acute malnutrition increased, compared to the same period in 2022. However, the outlook for the period between now until the end of 2023 indicates the need for more programme investments, as the modest improvements may be eroded, UN agencies have warned.
LOM? ¨C The European Union (EU) has provided EUR 4.5 million to the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ for the provision of nutritious meals to 17,400 primary school children in northern Togo using locally produced foods.
NAIROBI ¨C Millions of people in the Horn of Africa are trapped in a hunger emergency as the region lurches from crisis to crisis: the longest drought in recorded history has given way to rains and flash flooding, the UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) warned today. Food and energy prices remain stubbornly high and the impact of the conflict in Sudan reverberates around the region.
ROME / SEOUL ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) thanks the Republic of Korea (ROK) for their recent announcement on the doubling of their annual contribution of rice to the programme next year onwards. The increase will take the annual contribution from 50,000 to 100,000 metric tons, destined for Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s life-saving operations globally.
Basra, IRAQ ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ), in partnership with the local government of Basra, Iraq¡¯s Ministry of Environment, and the University of Basra¡¯s Marine Science Centre started a mangrove nursery in the tidal flats region with the capacity to produce up to one million mangrove seedlings annually.
ROME ¨C The Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is rolling out comprehensive, systemic measures to prevent further misuse of life-saving aid in response to the discovery of widespread diversion of humanitarian food assistance in Ethiopia last month. Â鶹ÊÓƵ paused food distributions in the Tigray region after finding evidence of significant food aid sales in local markets. Â鶹ÊÓƵ immediately began an investigation and is enhancing safeguards and controls to ensure that necessary assistance reaches the most vulnerable women, men, and children.
