Damascus ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) says it has so far provided emergency food assistance to more than 300,000 people in Syria as a result of recent military operations in the northeast of the country. Those assisted include people displaced by hostilities and families providing shelter to the displaced. Many fled their homes with little or nothing, finding refuge in schools or with family and friends living further to the south.
ROME ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) will begin destroying global stocks of a blended food product, identified as a source of sickness among people who consumed it in Uganda earlier this year.
ROME ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and Education Cannot Wait (ECW), today embarked on a strategic partnership to ensure children and youth in emergencies do not miss out on the education opportunities that will shape their futures.
SANA¡¯A ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has reached families trapped in Yemen¡¯s Durayhimi City with much-needed humanitarian assistance. This is only the second time in over a year that Â鶹ÊÓƵ has been able to reach the town which lies about 20 kms south of the port city of Hodeidah.
KHARTOUM ¨C The Executive Director of the UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) David Beasley, today concluded a two-day visit to Sudan where he met leaders of the new government and travelled to Kosti to send off the first three barges to carry humanitarian food supplies down the River Nile to South Sudan since 2011.
Rome - At the global World Food Day ceremony today speakers called for bolder and faster action across sectors to make healthy and sustainable diets available and affordable for all.
DAMASCUS ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has so far provided immediate food assistance to more than 70,000 people fleeing towns in northeastern Syria as military operations continue. Â鶹ÊÓƵ is deeply concerned about the safety of civilians caught in the violence and urges that vital supply routes be kept open and safe for humanitarian deliveries.
ALGIERS ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a contribution of US$560,000 from the US State Department to support Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s innovative fish farm in Algeria¡¯s Tindouf refugee camps. This is the second US contribution to Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s activities in Algeria that provide refugees with livelihood opportunities and enhance food security in the camps.
Rome/Turin - Italian footballer Gianluigi Buffon, has today been appointed Goodwill Ambassador of the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ), the Rome-based agency that provides food assistance to over 90 million people affected by conflicts and natural disasters.
Rome, Italy ¨C Be it a mouldy piece of cheese or an old carrot, there is often some frightful foodstuff festering at the back of the fridge. But very often, these seemingly spoiled items can be rescued and included in a tasty dish. That is why the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) today announced the launch of Stop the Waste, a global campaign to raise awareness about the huge amounts of edible food that is daily discarded ¨C a habit that must be overcome if we are to make real progress in eradicating global hunger.
BUDAPEST ¨C The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) will today sign the Crisis Connectivity Charter, joining forces with a global network working to strengthen telecommunications services for humanitarian responders, ensuring seamless collaboration in emergencies and enabling faster disaster responses.
Acute malnutrition level among children exceeds emergency threshold.
11 September 2019, JUBA ¨C In spite of a slight improvement in the food security situation since June 2019, more than half the population of South Sudan ¨C some 6.35 million people ¨C do not know where their next meal will come from, three United Nations agencies warned today.
5 September 2019, Rome ¨C Favourable rains in Syria¡¯s agricultural areas, coupled with improved overall security, have boosted harvests compared to last year, but higher food prices are putting more strain on many Syrians, a new United Nations report has found.
PORT-AU-PRINCE ¨C Thanks to the expansion of a home-grown school feeding programme supported by the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ), 43,000 Haitian school children will receive hot meals prepared daily with fresh ingredients bought directly from local small-scale farmers. The initiative will kick off in the new school year (2019-2020) which starts on 9 September.
KHARTOUM- The Government of Sudan and development partners including the Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) officially extended until 2021 an agreement that supports the development of a national law making salt iodization mandatory. The fourteen-party Universal Salt Iodization Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) includes a number of ministries.
BENI/ROME ¨C The United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres will travel to the epicentre of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo tomorrow to highlight efforts being made by the international community to combat the deadly virus. The UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is part of the emergency response, providing food to Ebola survivors and people potentially carrying the virus. Â鶹ÊÓƵ also provides critical logistical services and operational support to partners of the medical response teams.
KABUL ¨C Humanitarian funding from the European Union (EU) provided crucial support to Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s operation in Afghanistan, reaching nearly 150,000 people hit by devastating flash floods earlier this year. Several weeks of torrential spring rains wreaked havoc across two thirds of the country, affecting tens of thousands of people and their livelihoods.
KHARTOUM - The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has welcomed a top-up contribution of €7 million, following the €6 million provided to Â鶹ÊÓƵ in 2018. Funding will support emergency operations in Sudan from the European Commission¡¯s Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection department (ECHO).
ROME ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ welcomes important, positive steps taken by the Sana¡¯a-based authorities on safeguards to ensure humanitarian food assistance reaches the most vulnerable children, women and men in areas of Yemen under their control.
ROME ¨C The Executive Director of the Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ), David Beasley, will visit Burkina Faso on 12-14 August. The country is dealing with an unfolding humanitarian crisis resulting from a sharp increase in armed violence.
BEIRUT ¨C A new financial contribution from the European Union (EU) confirmed today will allow UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) to continue life-saving humanitarian support for 358,000 of the most vulnerable Syrian refugees in Lebanon until April 2020.
DHAKA ¨C The Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is working together with the Government of Bangladesh to assist more than 275,000 people affected by flooding in the north-west of the country, activating for the first time an innovative forecast-based financing project.
EAST-JERUSALEM ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) in Palestine has expanded its operations to reach an additional 12,000 non-refugees in Gaza facing deep poverty and severe food insecurity. The increase, which has been supported by new donor contributions, comes in response to a worrying rise in humanitarian and food security needs in the enclave.
JUBA - The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) recently completed the first functional data exchange between their own beneficiary management systems to provide updated information on tens of thousands of people receiving assistance in Upper Nile and Jonglei regions.
