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.
ISLAMABAD ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomed a contribution of US$ 100,000 from the Embassy of the Republic of the Philippines to Pakistan for its ongoing flood response to reach the most vulnerable flood-affected communities with relief, recovery and rehabilitation support. The Ambassador-designate of the Republic of the Philippines to Pakistan, Maria Agnes M. Cervantes, handed over the donation to Rathi Palakrishnan, Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s Country Director a.i., during a ceremony held at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ office in Islamabad on 18 May.
Venice ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and the Civic Data Design Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will inaugurate ¡°Distance Unknown¡±, a data-based exhibition on hunger and migration, at Palazzo Bembo (European Cultural Centre) in Venice with a walk-through on 21 May 2023 at 1100 CET to coincide with the opening of the Biennale Architettura 2023.
MAPUTO ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a contribution of EUR 1 million from France to support Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s emergency nutrition response in three provinces of northern Mozambique.
ISLAMABAD ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and the Planning and Development (P&D) Department of the Government of Balochistan have signed an agreement for the implementation of the Gwadar-Lasbela Livelihoods Support Project II (GLLSP-II) to improve nutrition behaviours and practices for food insecure communities in the Gwadar and Lasbela coastal districts. These areas are highly exposed to climate shocks, resulting in lower productivity in agriculture, livestock and fisheries.
BAMAKO ¨C As violence, population displacements and climate shocks continue to exacerbate food insecurity and malnutrition in Mali, the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) requires urgent funding to ramp up emergency food and nutritional assistance to 3.8 million women, men and children in conflict-affected regions in central, northern, and south-eastern Mali.
PORT SUDAN/ROME ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is rapidly scaling up its emergency operations in Sudan, every day reaching thousands more people whose lives have been upended by the ongoing fighting. Â鶹ÊÓƵ is ramping up to assist 4.9 million vulnerable people in Sudan and thousands more who have fled to neighbouring countries.
ROME ¨C The G7¡¯s strong commitment to global food security in 2022 must be maintained in 2023 as new crises in Sudan, Haiti and the Sahel push more people into hunger, the UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ said today, just days before G7 leaders were due to meet in Japan.
Banjul ¨C The Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has received a US$1.5 million (JPY 164 million) contribution from the Government and people of Japan to provide emergency food and nutrition assistance to 25,000 people affected by climate shocks and the economic fallout from COVID19 and the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
ASWAN ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ), launched today an emergency cash assistance programme to support vulnerable people fleeing the conflict in Sudan. Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s pre-established cash delivery platform will also be made available to sister UN agencies to enable them to quickly extend their assistance to vulnerable people arriving in Egypt from Sudan.
BANGKOK - The Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is closely monitoring Cyclone Mocha, which is expected to make landfall this Sunday in Myanmar and Bangladesh. Working with partners, Â鶹ÊÓƵ is gearing up for a large-scale emergency response, putting in place contingency plans, and prepositioning food and relief supplies, vehicles, and emergency equipment. Heavy rainfall is forecast, with the possible risk of floods and landslides, which could impact hundreds of thousands of vulnerable people in areas likely to be in the cyclone¡¯s trajectory.
EAST JERUSALEM ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) announced today that by next month 200,000 people ¨C 60 percent of the people the agency assists in Palestine ¨C will no longer be receiving food assistance due to a severe funding shortage. By August, Â鶹ÊÓƵ will be forced to completely suspend operations in the West Bank and Gaza if no funding is received.
N¡¯DJAMENA ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) urgently requires US$162.4 million to support the Government of Chad in assisting 2.3 million people in urgent need of food assistance, including newly arrived refugees from Sudan as well as the 600,000 refugees already in Chad, communities hosting displaced people, internally displaced people, and severely food insecure people in Chad during the June-August lean season.
ROME/PORT SUDAN ¨C The UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ warned today that an additional 2 - 2.5 million people in Sudan are expected to slip into hunger in the coming months as a result of the ongoing violence in the country. This would take acute food insecurity in Sudan to record levels, with more than 19 million people affected, two fifths of the population.
KINSHASA ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has announced that 34-year-old Congolese professional footballer Distel Zola has been named a High-Level Supporter for healthy meals and better nutrition in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). His appointment comes as the country faces high food insecurity and malnutrition levels.
KUWAIT - The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomed a recent contribution of US$16 million from the Government of Kuwait to support people in Syria and °Õ¨¹°ù°ì¾±²â±ð who have been worst affected by the February earthquake in the region.
PHNOM PENH ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and the Cambodian Agriculture Cooperative Corporation (CACC) are launching a new project targeting over 1,200 smallholder farmers and their extended families in Koh Nhek, Mondulkiri, the country¡¯s north-eastern province.
KINSHASA ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has welcomed a US$ 2.8 million contribution from the Government of Switzerland to support emergency food and nutrition assistance in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
NAIROBI - The UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) today signed an agreement to address the devastating impacts of the climate crisis, environmental degradation and biodiversity and ecosystem loss on the food and water security of millions of people around the world.
ANTANANARIVO ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is warning that it will discontinue its helicopter service in south-eastern Madagascar - unless US$1 million is urgently received.
BEIRUT ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a contribution of CAD $35 million (US$25.9 million) from the Government of Canada to support cash assistance to vulnerable Lebanese via the National Poverty Targeting Program (NPTP) and to provide technical assistance to the Ministry of Social Affairs (MoSA).
ROME ¨C The Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is deeply concerned by the recent reports of significant diversion of humanitarian food assistance in Ethiopia¡¯s Tigray Region. Â鶹ÊÓƵ takes this issue extremely seriously and will not tolerate any interference in its distribution of critical food aid to the most vulnerable women, men and children.
ROME ¨C As the crisis in Sudan pushes millions into hunger, the Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is immediately lifting the temporary suspension of operations put in place after the tragic deaths of our three team members on 15 April. Distribution of food is expected to commence in the states of Gedaref, Gezira, Kassala and White Nile in the coming days to provide the life-saving assistance that many so desperately need right now.
