KINSHASA ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ has started providing emergency food rations to people displaced from their homes in Goma by the sudden eruption of Nyiragongo volcano on 22 May.
Yerevan, ARMENIA ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a US$1 million contribution from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)¡¯s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance to provide cash assistance to help food-insecure, displaced people in Armenia cover their food needs until the end of June.
MEKELE ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has provided emergency food assistance to 1 million people since starting distributions in Northwestern and Southern zones of Tigray region in March.
KHARTOUM ¨C The Ministry of Agriculture and Forests of Sudan, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ today called for greater investment in Sudan¡¯s agriculture and humanitarian assistance, as a new food security assessment shows that a record number of Sudanese will face acute food insecurity in the coming lean season.
Yerevan, ARMENIA ¨C The UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has welcomed a EUR 300,000 contribution from the Government of France, which will help Â鶹ÊÓƵ to support food insecure and displaced people in Armenia through cash transfers to meet their immediate food needs till the end of June.
ROME- Economic empowerment of rural women as farmers, entrepreneurs and leaders contributes towards alleviating poverty, increasing food security and achieving gender equality. These findings, based on an evaluation of a six-year multi-agency global initiative implemented in Ethiopia, Guatemala, Kyrgyzstan, Liberia, Nepal, Niger, and Rwanda, were shared at a high-level event in Rome earlier this week.
Niamey ¡ª The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) today welcomes a US$ 7 million contribution by the Government of Japan to provide food and nutrition support to more than 83,000 people in Niger¡¯s crisis-affected regions of Diffa, Maradi, Tahoua and Tillabery.
JUBA ¨C Cereal production in South Sudan in 2020 rose by seven percent over 2019 levels because of favourable rains. But cereals remained far below average production levels reached before conflict erupted in South Sudan in 2013, a new United Nations report on food security finds.
LUXOR ¨C The Head of the European Union (EU) Delegation in Egypt Christian Berger visited today Qena and Luxor governorates in Upper Egypt to witness the sustained impact of the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) EU-funded project ¡°Enhancing Access to Education and Fighting Child Labour¡±
BEIRUT ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has started scaling up its support to a crucial national social support scheme in Lebanon to assist families struggling to make ends meet amid a severe economic downturn, skyrocketing inflation and a collapsing Lebanese pound.
JUBA ¨C The Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) condemns looting of its food assistance and destruction of humanitarian storage units in South Sudan¡¯s Greater Pibor Administrative Area in Greater Jonglei. Violence between armed groups flared up in May, displacing thousands of people and jeopardizing the ability of humanitarian agencies to support communities on the brink of famine.
Yerevan, ARMENIA ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a EUR 1.3 million contribution from the European Union (EU) to provide cash assistance across Armenia for people affected by the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
The UN¡¯s Â鶹ÊÓƵ has signed a Strategic Partnership with global conflict resolution organisation, the International Crisis Group, in order to boost its conflict sensitivity and prevention capacity as it continues to deliver life-saving food to the world¡¯s most vulnerable people.
SANA¡¯A ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is increasing the level of food assistance in Yemen¡¯s worst hunger hotspots in an effort to prevent a devastating famine. But the agency¡¯s ability to sustain the response to the end of the year remains uncertain.
DAR ES SALAAM¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and the Tanzania Social Action Fund (TASAF), a Government Department responsible for safety net programmes, have signed a memorandum of understanding to strengthen food security for 300,000 vulnerable families.
CAIRO ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has received a contribution package totalling US$1.5 million from the Government of the Republic of Korea to help provide food assistance for conflict-affected Syrians in Jordan and Turkey.
The African Development Bank has made a grant of $686,000 to the United Nations World Food Program (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) which will provide much needed food relief to thousands of people on the brink of starvation in southern Madagascar.
OUAGADOUGOU ¡ª?The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a contribution of US$7 million from Japan to alleviate the suffering of vulnerable populations in a country hard-hit by the combined effects of insecurity, recurrent climate shocks, rising food prices, and the socio-economic impacts of the global pandemic (COVID-19).
Tripoli ¨C With support from the European Union (EU), the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) have partnered to help improve food security and nutrition for vulnerable communities, including migrants, affected by COVID-19 in Libya.
Acute food insecurity on the rise as the Central African Republic reels from impacts of conflict and COVID-19
Bangui ¨C Nearly half of the population ¨C 47 percent ¨C suffers from high and surging acute food insecurity in the Central African Republic as the country reels from the impacts of ongoing conflict and COVID-19, and braces for another harsh May-August lean season, warn the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ).
This is a summary of what was said by Â鶹ÊÓƵ spokesperson Tomson Phiri ¨C to whom quoted text may be attributed ¨C at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.
GENEVA ¨C Almost five years after the 2017 influx of the Rohingya refugees, food security in Cox¡¯s Bazar remains a top priority - with over a quarter of the new $943 million Joint Response Plan allocated towards fighting hunger and malnutrition among Rohingya refugees and host communities.
YEREVAN ¨C In partnership with the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, the UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ), is launching a cash assistance programme for displaced people from Nagorno-Karabakh to meet their food needs across Armenia till the end of June.
JERUSALEM ¨C Â鶹ÊÓƵ has started providing emergency assistance for more than 51,000 people in north Gaza in response to rising humanitarian needs among families affected by the recent escalation of conflict in the impoverished strip.
YANGON, MYANMAR ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) today welcomed a US$4 million contribution from the Government of Japan to support families struggling to meet their basic food needs.
KIGALI ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, have started rolling out a new mechanism in Rwanda to prioritize general food assistance to the most vulnerable refugees.
