BEIRA: The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ on Friday declared the Mozambique flood crisis a Level 3 emergency, putting it among a handful of top response priorities for the organisation, on a par with Yemen, Syria and South Sudan.
YOKOHAMA¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has welcomed a total of US$69 million in funding from the Government of Japan to provide vital food, nutrition and resilience building support in 28 countries across the Middle East, Africa, and Asia.
KAMPALA - The Government of Uganda and United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) are investigating whether there is a connection between recent illnesses reported in two districts in Karamoja and Super Cereal, a fortified blended food distributed by Â鶹ÊÓƵ for prevention of malnutrition.
KAMPALA ¨C The Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has suspended distributing Super Cereal ¨C a fortified blended food ¨C in Uganda after scores of people were taken sick and were admitted to health centres following local food distributions in the Karamoja region in the Northeast.
KATHMANDU ¨C Ekta Adhikari, a 28 year old Nepali national working in Ethiopia with the Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ), was on board flight ET 302 that crashed soon after take-off from Addis Ababa on Sunday morning.?
ABIDJAN ¨C The fourth edition of the African Day of School Feeding, celebrated under the theme ¡°Investing in home-grown school feeding for achieving Zero Hunger and sustaining inclusive education for all, including refugees, returnees and internally-displaced persons in Africa¡± was officially opened today by His Excellency Daniel Kablan DUNCAN, Vice President of the Republic of C?te d¡¯Ivoire, and celebrated under his distinguished patronage.
ROME-ABIDJAN ¨C African leaders are gathering this week in Abidjan to celebrate Africa Day of School Feeding. ?The event hosted by the African Union and the government of Cote d¡¯Ivoire is an arena for governments to celebrate gains and confirm future plans for school feeding programmes across Africa.
BANGUI ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has launched an airlift operation to deliver life-saving food supplies to 18,000 people in Zemio, 1000 km East of the capital Bangui. The region is on the brink of a severe food and nutritional crisis, due to a combination of insecurity and transport infrastructure challenges, which hamper humanitarian access to the area.
Sana¡¯a, Yemen ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ has hailed a breakthrough in its emergency operation in Yemen after managing to reach the Red Sea Mills in Hodeidah for the first time in six months.
22 February 2019, Juba - Nearly 7 million people in South Sudan could face acute food insecurity at the height of this lean season (May-July), three United Nations agencies warned today, urging for scaled-up humanitarian assistance and better access to humanitarian relief.
Antananarivo ¨C Lack of funding for the UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s school feeding operation in drought-ravaged southern Madagascar is threatening deeper hunger in the poorest parts of a country where one in two children are chronically malnourished.
ADDIS ABABA ¨C The Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) in Ethiopia is distributing life-saving food in the Dawa Zone of Somali Region following a spate of interruptions over the past 11 months due to security issues.
ROME ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has identified stocks of Super Cereal - a fortified blended food used in its food assistance programmes - that is too low in protein and fat to meet normal specifications. There is no issue with the safety of the product, which is provided by a commercial supplier.
Today, Palantir Technologies (Palantir) and the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) announced a five-year partnership aimed at helping Â鶹ÊÓƵ use its data to streamline the delivery of food and cash-based assistance in life-saving emergency relief operations around the world.
ROME ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) received US$440 million of flexible funding in 2018, a ten percent increase from 2017. Flexible contributions allow Â鶹ÊÓƵ to use funds wherever and whenever needs are greatest, giving it the agility to respond to sudden-onset emergencies as well as the means to sustain lifesaving assistance in neglected and protracted crises.
JERUSALEM ¨C The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) have signed a new agreement to provide 6,000 of the most vulnerable families in the Gaza Strip with blankets, clothing and hygiene kits.
