ROME - Friends and Colleagues - I want you to be among the first to know that in the past few hours I have received confirmation, after testing, that I have the COVID-19 virus.? I began feeling unwell this past weekend after returning to my home in the United States from an official visit to Canada and I took an early decision to go into self-quarantine, five days ago.
Islamabad ¨C The Republic of Korea is donating US$200,000 to help the Government of Pakistan respond to the worst locust infestation in more than two decades.
BEIJING - The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is providing lifesaving medical equipment worth US$500,000 to help China¡¯s frontline hospitals in Hubei support the Government¡¯s effort to combat COVID-19.
BEIRA/JOHANNESBURG ¨C A year after Cyclone Idai devastated much of central Mozambique, limited funding for essential reconstruction is preventing many of the hardest-hit people from getting back on their feet, according to the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ).
HARARE ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has welcomed a contribution of US$1.5 million from the Russia Federation to assist more than 100,000 people in Hwange, Nkayi and Zvishavane districts, who are among the worst affected by severe drought and food insecurity in the country.
ANKARA ¨C As Syria enters its 10th year of conflict, which has forced more than 5.6 million people to flee their country, a survey of a major Â鶹ÊÓƵ cash assistance scheme in °Õ¨¹°ù°ì¾±²â±ð indicates that European Union-funded support has helped prevent 1.7 million vulnerable refugees ¨C mostly Syrians ¨C from falling deeper into poverty.
OUAGADOUGOU ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes an in-kind contribution of yellow split peas and fortified vegetable oil from the Russian Federation to provide food assistance to people affected by rising insecurity in Burkina Faso.
HARARE ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) today welcomes a contribution of $3 million CAD from the Canadian Government to life-saving humanitarian operations in Zimbabwe. The funding supports Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s rapid scale-up of emergency food assistance to reach almost 55,000 people in Matobo district.
FAO, IFAD and Â鶹ÊÓƵ mark International Women¡¯s Day
Rome ¨C The three United Nations¡¯ Rome-based agencies dedicated to food and agriculture called today for bolder action to achieve gender equality and empower women and girls in the agricultural sector and beyond.
DAMASCUS/CAIRO/AMMAN/NEW YORK/ROME ¨C It is now more urgent than ever to end the violence in Syria and to improve access across the country, UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore and Â鶹ÊÓƵ Executive Director David Beasley said today. Wrapping up a two-day visit to the country, the two agency chiefs also stressed the need to provide families with basic services and to improve their economic conditions.
YOKOHAMA ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has welcomed a total of US$100 million in funding from the Government of Japan to provide vital food, nutrition and livelihoods support in 27 countries across the Middle East, Africa, and Asia.
180,000 people in Kivu provinces to benefit as German Government expands its support to communities weakened by conflict, agricultural and climate shocks
4 March 2020, Kinshasa ¨C The German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), through the German Development Bank KfW, has contributed EUR 50 million (USD 54 million) to a resilience building programme to be implemented by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations Children¡¯s Fund (UNICEF) and the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
VIENTIANE¨C Cooking oil and canned fish from Russia are arriving in Laos to support Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s resilience work for communities vulnerable to climate change. The food items, worth US$1 million, will be distributed to 27,500 people in the northern provinces whose lives have been affected by floods, droughts and pest outbreaks over the past two years.
ROME ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) joins the African Union (AU) and countries across Africa to celebrate the Africa Day of School Feeding on 01 March 2020, taking the occasion to underscore that investments in human capital through school health and nutrition programmes can garner huge pay-offs that extend far beyond the schoolyard.
Bangui - The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a contribution of JPY 164,205,000 (US$1.5 million) from the Government of Japan to provide food and nutritional assistance to people affected by the violence in the Central African Republic (C.A.R.).
BISHKEK ¨C Eight rural schools in Osh and Jalal-Abad provinces have been able to start serving daily hot meals to some 4,000 primary school students, thanks to funding from Japan, technical support from the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and local implementing partner, the Training and Extension System (TES) Centre.
Joint statement by QU Dongyu, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO); Mark Lowcock, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator; and David Beasley, Executive Director of the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ).
DILI ¨C Â鶹ÊÓƵ, in partnership with the National Council for Food Security, Sovereignty and Nutrition in Timor-Leste (KONSSANTIL), launched the Fill the Nutrient Gap (FNG) report today. The report focuses on identifying policies and interventions best suited to help the people of Timor-Leste access nutritious foods, particularly the most vulnerable.
ROME ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) was invited by the government of Venezuela to conduct a food security assessment to estimate the needs and vulnerabilities of Venezuelan households.
TRIPOLI/TUNIS ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is facing a funding shortfall in Libya that risks the continuation of its operations supporting the most vulnerable communities inside the country.
DAKAR/ROME ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is disturbed by news of the killing of a beneficiary by military men at the site of a food distribution near Ekona, in the South West Region of Cameroon.
Juba ¨C Some 6.5 million people in South Sudan ¨C more than half of the population - could be in acute food insecurity at the height of this hunger season (May-July), three United Nations agencies warned today.
MASERU ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes the European Union (EU) contribution of €1.5 million (equivalent to about M24 million) in humanitarian support, enabling Â鶹ÊÓƵ to expand ongoing emergency drought assistance to an additional 22,100 people on top of the 77,880 people that are already receiving assistance.
