RAMALLAH ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomed a contribution of JPY 300 million (US$2.8 million approximately) from the Government of Japan that will help Â鶹ÊÓƵ meet the pressing food needs of the most vulnerable Palestinian families in Gaza and the West Bank.
DAKAR/ROME ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is today warning that unless humanitarian access is urgently granted to organizations like the Â鶹ÊÓƵ, catastrophic levels of hunger could hit hard in parts of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger. The stark warning comes ahead of the High-Level Ministerial Conference on the Central Sahel in Copenhagen on 20 October 2020.
MASERU ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes the European Union¡¯s (EU) contribution of €2.8 million (M55.5 million) to provide much needed relief assistance to the most vulnerable people in Lesotho affected by three consecutive years of drought and the socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
ROME ¨C A basic meal is far beyond the reach of millions of people in 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic joins conflict, climate change and economic troubles in pushing up levels of hunger around the world, according to a new study released today by the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ).
ROME ¨C The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to the Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is a humbling, moving recognition of the work of Â鶹ÊÓƵ staff who lay their lives on the line every day to bring food and assistance for close to 100 million hungry children, women and men across the world. People whose lives are often brutally torn apart by instability, insecurity and conflict.
AMMAN, 8 October 2020 - UN Agencies* in the region unveiled today ¡°Rej¡¯et El Sineh¡± [¡®Learning is Back¡¯], a song to encourage the return to learning for all children and youth across the region.
BEIRUT ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) in Lebanon is stepping up its response to the explosion that ripped through the capital in August by providing cash assistance for up to 50,000 people (10,000 families), to help them meet basic needs such as food and healthcare.
MUZAFFARABAD ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) today handed over a state-of-the-art Humanitarian Response Facility (HRF) to the Government of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK). The facility will be used to store and dispatch humanitarian relief supplies for future emergencies, augmenting national capacity and reducing the time needed to respond to crises.
ACCRA ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is extending its support to the national social protection programme in Ghana by providing cash transfers to 75,000 daily wage earners and smallholder farmers. The support is to address their food security and nutrition needs while they recover from the negative socio-economic effects of COVID-19 on their livelihoods.
JUBA ¨C On Monday, 5 October, a WORLD Food Programme (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) boat convoy carrying food assistance from Bor to Melut and Malakal was attacked near Shambe North. The river convoy consisted of three cargo vessels and a speedboat. The cargo vessels had food assistance and 13 crew aboard.
KAMPALA, 7 October, 2020 ¨C Ugandans in nine urban areas were at Crisis levels of food insecurity or worse for months leading to August because of negative impacts of the COVID-19 lockdown. The worst affected of were Gulu, Jinja and Kasese where nearly one in three people struggled to find nutritious food on a regular basis.
KANO ¨C The Nigerian Government and the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) today launched a cash and food assistance programme in the three urban COVID-19 hotspots of Abuja, Kano and Lagos. The Government has released 2,000 metric tons of food from its Strategic Grain Reserve (valued at US$1 million), while Â鶹ÊÓƵ is releasing US$3 million to provide cash assistance.
KAMPALA ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and Government of Uganda will begin making emergency cash transfers in the coming days to more than 56,000 pregnant and breastfeeding women and children under the age of two, including refugees, in West Nile region.
Khartoum - The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) Sudan has welcomed a contribution of US$1.7 million from the Government of Japan to support vulnerable people whose livelihoods and food security are most at risk because of desert locust swarms that migrated to Sudan from Kenya and South Sudan earlier this year.
WINDHOEK ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a contribution of €2million (N$40 million) from the European Union (EU), which will help Â鶹ÊÓƵ deliver critical food assistance to 30,000 vulnerable people in Namibia affected by COVID-19 and drought.
HARARE ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) today commenced cash disbursements in the scale up of the Urban Social Assistance programme thanks to funding from the United States through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
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 Ethiopia and Guinea whose food security is being further undermined by the socio-economic effects of COVID-19. The resulting loss of jobs in the casual labour market and the loss of remittances sent from abroad have had a huge impact on poor familes in many parts of the world.
BRUSSELS ¨C Through the EU Regional Trust Fund in Response to the Syrian Crisis, the Madad Fund, the European Union is working in partnership with the Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) to support vulnerable households in Lebanon, affected by the multiple crises confronting the country. With a total budget of €151.2 million in grants, which includes a new EU-Â鶹ÊÓƵ agreement worth €103.2 million signed this September, their assistance provides a critical lifeline to vulnerable Lebanese and refugees from Syria struggling to meet their basic needs.
GUATEMALA CITY ¨C Undernutrition, overweight and obesity cost Guatemala US$12 billion in 2018 amounting to a significant 16.3 percent of the country¡¯s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), according to a report released today by the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). Resources lost to malnutrition take away from hard won development gains.
BAGHDAD ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has launched new projects in Iraq to help provide thousands of people with short-term employment opportunities, so they can start working again during the COVID-19 pandemic and meet their family¡¯s food needs.
Maputo ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a contribution of JPY 200 million (USD 1.87 million) from the Government of Japan to provide food assistance and livelihoods support to refugees and asylum-seekers living in Maratane Refugee Camp (Nampula Province) and internally displaced people (IDPs) in Cabo Delgado province in Mozambique.
SANA¡¯A ¨C Yemen is at a tipping point as conflict and economic woes drag the country to the brink of famine and risk cancelling out the gains made through humanitarian action in the past few years, the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ warns today.
MAPUTO ¨C Â鶹ÊÓƵ is extremely concerned about the escalating conflict and deteriorating food security situation in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique, where over 300,000 people have fled their homes and villages, abandoning their crops and leaving them completely reliant on humanitarian assistance.
BEIRUT ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is radically expanding its support to a key Lebanese social assistance programme, with the goal of helping 270,000 people get through the triple shock caused by economic crisis, the COVID-19 lockdown and the blasts at Beirut port.
CAIRO ¨C Egypt¡¯s minister of International Cooperation visited projects in Upper Egypt¡¯s governorate of Luxor where the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is supporting more than 120,000 people through climate change interventions, awareness and nutrition projects, as well as school feeding and other initiatives so that communities may become more self-reliant.
