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Northern Ethiopia: A record 9 million now need food assistance
- UN News
After 15 months of conflict in Ethiopia, almost 40 per cent of Tigrayans are suffering an extreme lack of food, according to data released by the World Food Programme (WFP) on Friday.
When Will Countries Ever Learn how Well to do Fuel Subsidy Reforms?
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON DC, Jan 28 (IPS) - Consider the situation. Faced with growing fiscal stress, the government of an energy exporting country decides to cut generous subsidies, doubling the fuel price overnight.
Griffiths to Security Council: ‘Your responsibility is not over’ to Syrian people
- UN News
The UN and its partners need to reach more Syrians with immediate life-saving aid, the UN relief chief warned the Security Council on Thursday, calling for expanded access and more funds to sustain humanitarian operations, as the country struggles with an uptick in violence, deepening economic crisis, and a winter storm that has left a ‘trail of destruction’ in its wake.
In central Sahel, ‘needs are growing faster than generosity’
- UN News
“Needs are growing faster than generosity” in the central Sahel, the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs told a group of senior officials on Thursday, meeting to discuss the worsening humanitarian situation across the vast African region.
UNICEF providing aid for children caught up in Syria prison siege
- UN News
Boys and girls caught up in intense fighting which raged for six days around a besieged prison in northeast Syria, need protection and assistance, the UN children’s agency, UNICEF, said on Thursday.
Food insecurity soaring across 20 hunger hotspots
- UN News
Food insecurity is soaring across 20 countries and regions - “hunger hotspots”, where conflict, economic shocks, natural hazards, political instability, and limited humanitarian access, are putting millions of lives at risk, UN agencies highlighted on Thursday.
UN report finds nature conservation funding must triple globally this decade
- UN News
G20 leading industrialized nations must embrace their role as influential leaders against climate change, by aligning development and economic recovery with international nature and climate goals, according to a new UN report, published on Thursday.
A Special Adviser to Probe Racism and Discrimination at UN
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 27 (IPS) - “Racism and discrimination have no place in our world -- least of all at the United Nations”, warns UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who will soon appoint a Special Adviser to investigate the growing discrimination based on racial, national or ethnic origins in the world body.
UN remembers ‘unprecedented horror and calculated cruelty’ of the Holocaust
- UN News
The Holocaust “defined the United Nations”, Secretary-General António Guterres told a virtual ceremony marking Holocaust Remembrance Day on Thursday, recalling that the UN Charter was drafted in San Francisco “as the Dachau concentration camp was liberated”.
Road to COP27: Why Africa cannot be Complacent on Energy, Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 27 (IPS) - A year ago, we welcomed 2021 with a sense of cautious optimism when the newly developed vaccines promised a shift in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. The focus turned towards building back better and doing things differently as many countries started to rethink and rebuild their shattered economies.
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