JUBA ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes contributions totalling US$345 million from the United States through USAID¡¯s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance to support Â鶹ÊÓƵ food assistance in South Sudan, where rising food insecurity has pushed 60 percent of the population into hunger and poverty.
CAIRO ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) Chief of Staff, Gresham Barrett, this week visited joint Government and Â鶹ÊÓƵ programmes in the city of Luxor, looking at projects promoting women¡¯s economic empowerment, rural development and education.
TRIPOLI ¨C Thanks to a EUR 370,000 contribution from the Government of France, the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) in Libya will support 3,500 crisis-affected people in the Fezzan region in the south of Libya through agriculture and livelihoods projects
JUBA ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is cutting food rations for refugees and internally displaced people in the country due to significant funding gaps.
BAGHDAD ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomed a 250,000 Euro contribution from France towards agricultural resilience-building activities in Basra governorate ¨C in the south of Iraq, that will support 7,500 people and their families.
Over 27 million Congolese ¨C one in three people - now critically hungry
Kinshasa/Rome ¨C?In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the food security situation remains dire with one in three people ¨C a record high - suffering from acute hunger, two United Nations agencies, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) warned today.
ANKARA ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has welcomed a contribution of US$700,000 from the Government of Japan to provide assistance for 52,000 Syrian refugees living in six camps in southeast °Õ¨¹°ù°ì¾±²â±ð.
(ROME/PARIS) -- The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) have renewed their partnership aimed at strengthening health and nutrition programmes for school children and will unite their expertise so that children and young people can learn, grow, and contribute to the future of their countries.
DAKAR/BRUSSELS ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and the European Union (EU) today announced that they are partnering in an 18-month project to improve the production, availability and consumption of nutritious foods to prevent malnutrition among women and children in Africa¡¯s Central Sahel region comprising Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger.
PEMBA ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is working around the clock to assist people in need following the latest outbreak of violence in Palma town, Cabo Delgado Province, northern Mozambique. The brutal attacks have left thousands of people fleeing their homes in Palma and in need of urgent humanitarian assistance.
HARARE: Hunger in Zimbabwe¡¯s urban areas has increased over the past year with 2.4 million people now struggling to meet their basic food needs, according to the Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee (ZimVAC) report coordinated by the Food and Nutrition Council.
CAIRO ¨C As a critical conference opens in Brussels on the future of war-ravaged Syria, the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ is appealing for the funds it needs to provide urgent food assistance to millions of Syrians who today face the worst humanitarian conditions since the start of the conflict.
JUBA ¨C United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) Executive Director David Beasley today congratulated leaders of Sudan and one of the country¡¯s rebel groups for agreeing to principles to resolve their conflict including that freedom of religion would be guaranteed to all Sudanese in a civil, democratic federal state.
KIGALI - The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ today welcomed a contribution of CAD 1 million (US$ 794,000) from the Government and people of Canada to provide humanitarian food and nutrition assistance to 135,000 Congolese and Burundian refugees in camps in Rwanda.
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 - The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) warns that hunger is on the rise in Angola as the country experiences its worst episode of drought in four decades in the south-western provinces.
ADDIS ABABA ¨C? The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has begun providing emergency food assistance to vulnerable people in Ethiopia¡¯s Tigray Region but urgently needs US$170 million to meet critical food and nutrition needs over the next six months, and to be able to cover any sudden increase.
NCHELENGE ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a contribution of US$610,000 (ZMW 13.5 million) from the U.S. government, which will help provide cash assistance to 16,500 refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) residing in the Â鶹ÊÓƵ-supported Mantapala settlement.
ROME ¨C Acute hunger is set to soar in over 20 countries in the coming months without urgent and scaled-up assistance, warn the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) in a new report issued today.
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 - The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is working tirelessly to assist people in need following the devastating fire outbreak that tore through four settlements in the Kutupalong Mega Camp in Cox¡¯s Bazaar, Bangladesh.
DUSHANBE ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Tajikistan today inaugurated a bakery in Pani district, the eighth such bakery Â鶹ÊÓƵ has helped build with funding from Russia. A steady supply of bread made in these bakeries will be used in school meals for 11,000 primary schoolchildren across 300 schools in the country, helping to make sure that children are healthy, ready to learn, and stay in school.
BEIJING - The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and the Government of China have signed agreements to provide food assistance to vulnerable people in Cameroon, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone and Uganda. These contributions aim to alleviate food insecurity, which has been worsened by the socio-economic effects of COVID-19.
ROME ¨C A €4.5 million (US$5 million) contribution from the European Union has enabled the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) to provide vital support to the global pandemic response by transporting humanitarian staff and cargo needed to fight COVID-19 to destinations all around the world.
MONROVIA ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is providing take-home rations to pre-primary and primary school children and their household members, totalling 5,000 beneficiaries. The rations comprising of rice, fortified vegetable oil, and pulses are intended to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the students and their families. This assistance was made possible thanks to a contribution of 200,000 CAD (US$ 150,000) by the Government of Canada to Â鶹ÊÓƵ in Liberia.
MAPUTO ¨C The United States Government is the largest donor of the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) in Mozambique. Through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), $38.4 million was awarded to Â鶹ÊÓƵ in 2020 alone. $12.6 million of this supports the humanitarian response in northern Mozambique and has been crucial to maintain Â鶹ÊÓƵ operations and to support vulnerable populations impacted by ongoing crises in the region.
New Delhi/Bhubaneshwar: The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and the Government of Odisha will be partnering for empowering women through livelihood support and promotion of climate-resilient millets.
