DUBAI/ROME ¨C As a humanitarian crisis builds on the Ethiopia-Sudan border, the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has welcomed a contribution of US$4.5 million from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to provide life-saving food assistance to refugees fleeing escalating violence in the Tigray region of Ethiopia.
WASHINGTON ¨C As classrooms around the developing world begin to re-open, the U.N. Â鶹ÊÓƵ is receiving US$119 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to provide school meals in five countries in Asia and Africa.
Yerevan, ARMENIA ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and the Government of Republic of Armenia (GoA) will jointly provide take-home rations for around 100,000 primary children while school canteens remain closed as part of the COVID-19 pandemic safety regulations.
Yaound¨¦ ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) today welcomed a US$ 1.87 million (1,045,748,252 FCFA) contribution from the Government of Japan to provide food and nutrition assistance to more than 207,000 people in the Far North, North, Adamawa, East, North West and South West regions of Cameroon.
KHARTOUM - The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is calling for US$24.6 million to meet the immediate needs of Ethiopian refugees seeking safety in Sudan. The conflict in the Tigray region of Ethiopia that escalated on 4 November, has forced more than 30,000 Ethiopians to flee across the border into Sudan.
JAKARTA - The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ), the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, today released its new Country Strategic Plan (CSP) 2021-2025, recommitting its support to the Government in its quest towards improving food security, nutrition and sustainable food systems for all.
DAMASCUS ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a donation of €2 million from the European Union (EU) for monthly food assistance for Syrian families facing unprecedented levels of hunger.
TEHRAN ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a supplementary contribution of €1 million (approximately US$1.2million) from the Federal Republic of Germany towards its assistance programme in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Suva, Fiji ¨C As the 2020 Pacific cyclone season is now upon us, the Â鶹ÊÓƵ is launching a website to highlight the need for donating responsibly after disasters. Launched today the DonateResponsibly website aims to educate and inform Australian and New Zealand audiences about why donating goods overseas after disasters can be unhelpful and even harmful. Its mission is to promote more effective ways to donate.
ROME ¨C The COVID-19 pandemic is reversing development gains and testing the foundations of global peace, yet it also presents an unprecedented opportunity to collaborate in helping governments and communities build back better. This is the core theme of a high-level virtual meeting in Rome today (1500 CET), bringing together top representatives of the United Na-tions, international financial institutions, African Union and European Union and governments.
PORT-AU-PRINCE ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) in Haiti welcomes a contribution of €2 million from the European Union (EU) that will provide emergency cash assistance to 27,000 severely food insecure people over four months and support the coordination of humanitarian actors on food security and cash-based interventions.
ROME ¨C Millions of people in Central America urgently need food assistance in the wake of Hurricane Eta, one of the worst storms in decades, as fears grow of another storm brewing in the coming days.
Maseru ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomed a contribution from the People¡¯s Republic of China that has helped Â鶹ÊÓƵ reach 36,000 vulnerable people with food and nutrition assistance
Transcript as delivered of remarks by UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) Executive Director David Beasley during today¡¯s UN Security Council consultation on the humanitarian crisis in Yemen.
NEW YORK ¨C
I honestly wish I had some good news. It seems like a repeat performance of what we have done in 2018, 2019. I would literally like to be pretty clear and pretty blunt about the situation because I don¡¯t want a single person to leave here with any doubt about the scale of the humanitarian disaster that we¡¯re now confronting in Yemen.
GENEVA/ROME ¨C A new report has found global hunger and population displacement - both already at record levels when COVID-19 struck - could surge as people on the move and those reliant on a dwindling flow of remittances desperately seek work to support their families.
Lilongwe ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ), in collaboration with the Government of Malawi and the Logistics Cluster, today welcomes a contribution of USD 195,000 (ISK 27,000,000) from the Government of Iceland towards humanitarian logistics services in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic in Malawi.
BAGHDAD - The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a generous contribution of US$600,000 from the Republic of Korea to help provide food assistance for three months for more than 350,000 people in camps in Iraq.
ROME ¨C The world has been put on a heightened famine alert with a new report by two United Nations agencies that contains a stark warning; four countries contain areas that could soon slip into famine if conditions there undergo ¡°any further deterioration over the coming months¡±. These are Burkina Faso in West Africa¡¯s Sahel region, northeastern Nigeria, South Sudan and Yemen.
MANAGUA ¨C As powerful Hurricane Eta makes landfall along the northern Caribbean coast of Nicaragua, the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ), at the request of the Government, has positioned 80 metric tons of food assistance in the region. The Category 4 hurricane, with winds of 240 km/h, is bringing heavy rain and causing damage to homes, agricultural fields, roads and power lines.
BANGKOK ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a new contribution of US$800,000 from the Republic of Korea. The funding will go towards Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s emergency operations in Bangladesh and Myanmar in the Asia and the Pacific region.
MOMBASA ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) in partnership with national and local government today launched cash transfers for 24,000 families whose livelihoods were destroyed by the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on informal urban settlements in the city of Mombasa.
New Delhi: The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and the Government of Rajasthan signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to work together to achieve food security and improved nutrition in the state to make significant progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 2. This cooperation will target people at high risk of malnutrition, especially women, children and adolescent girls, to have improved nutrition by 2025.
DHAKA ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has reopened its fresh food corners in the Rohingya camps, allowing trade and business activities to resume after months of closure due to COVID-19 prevention measures. An important economic opportunity for local farmers and traders in Cox¡¯s Bazar, the fresh food corners have benefitted both the refugees and their host community.
One in five children under five in parts of Yemen are estimated to be acutely malnourished and in urgent need of treatment as malnutrition cases increase across the south, UN agencies warn.
ADEN ¨C Acute malnutrition rates among children under five are the highest ever recorded in parts of Yemen, with more than half a million cases in southern districts, according to the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) Acute Malnutrition analysis released today by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and partners.
TRIPOLI/TUNIS ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) in Libya welcomed a generous donation of €3.5 million from the Government of Italy to support Â鶹ÊÓƵ operations that include vital food assistance to over 60,000 vulnerable people across the country, support for emergency response operations and data collection to identify needs and guide humanitarian intervention.
