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Karabakh emergency escalates, thousands still pouring into Armenia: UN agencies

·September 30, 2023·4 min read

Some 65,000 have already been registered at Government-run centres where long lines have formed. Late on Friday, UNHCR chief Filippo Grandi tweeted that more than 100,000 refugees had now arrived in Armenia from Karabakh. Anxiety and fear The agency is supporting the refugees with core relief items, said agency representative...

200,000 children at risk of starvation in Mali, warn UN agencies

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·September 3, 2023·1 min read

This warning comes at a time when almost a quarter of Mali’s population is experiencing moderate or acute food insecurity, with over 2,500 individuals on the brink of famine in the crisis-affected Menaka region, including many vulnerable children. Senior humanitarian officials from UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and World Food Programme...

UN agencies continue to deliver aid in Niger

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·August 15, 2023·1 min read

Agencies continue to reach people despite the challenges, including the ongoing rainy season, UN Spokesperson, Stéphane Dujarric, told journalists in New York on Monday. Roughly 4.3 million people in the West African country rely on humanitarian aid. Last week, 22,000 people in the Maradi region, located in the centre, received...

Save lives, UN agencies appeal, after yet another tragedy in the Mediterranean

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·August 11, 2023·1 min read

The International Organization for Migration (IOM); the UN refugee agency, UNCHR; and the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) also called for coordinated search and rescue mechanisms. The tragedy occurred between Thursday 3 August and Friday 4 August, and to date, only four survivors have been rescued – all by a merchant...

‘Let’s make breastfeeding at work, work’, urge UN agencies

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·August 2, 2023·1 min read

In the last decade, the prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding has increased by a remarkable 10 percentage points, to 48 per cent globally, according to the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO). Promoting and supporting breastfeeding at workplaces can help drive the progress higher and towards the...

South Sudan: UN agencies urge immediate action to avert deepening food crisis

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·August 1, 2023·1 min read

During a three-day visit to the country, Qu Dongyu, Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO); Cindy McCain, Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP); and Alvaro Lario, President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) witnessed the devastating effects of severe weather events and a...

Funding ‘simply not enough’ for Rohingya refugees, UN agencies report

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·July 21, 2023·2 min read

In March, the value of the food vouchers for camp residents was reduced from $12 per person per month to $10, and in June, to just $8; the equivalent of 27 cents a day. “The ration cuts are our last resort. Many donors have stepped forward with funding but what...

UN agencies head up new $115 million push for cleaner, healthier oceans

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·July 3, 2023·2 min read

FAO will co-lead the Clean and Healthy Oceans initiative together with the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the Development Bank of Latin America (CAF), in a strategic partnership with the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of the UN educational, science and cultural agency UNESCO....

Agencies join forces with deminers to reclaim agricultural land in Ukraine

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·June 23, 2023·2 min read

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) have designed a new joint programme for smallholder farmers and rural families most affected by the conflict. The goal is to clear farmland impacted by the fighting of mines and other explosive remnants of war, safely allowing it...

UN agencies warn of rising hunger risk in 18 ‘hotspots’

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·May 30, 2023·3 min read

Sudan, Burkina Faso, Haiti and Mali have been elevated to the highest alert level, joining Afghanistan, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen. Additionally, a likely El Niño – a naturally occurring climatic phenomenon that has a warming effect on ocean surface temperatures in the central and east Pacific – is also...

UN agencies call for more collaboration over refugee, migration crisis in Americas

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·May 13, 2023·3 min read

The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) issued a call for a more collaborative approach to better respond to the anticipated impact of changes on the southern US border. “The challenges facing the Americas call for ambitious, innovative, and principled cooperation among all stakeholders,” the...

UN agencies brace for disaster as Cyclone Mocha intensifies in Bay of Bengal

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·May 13, 2023·3 min read

The very severe cyclonic storm is quickly strengthening in the Bay of Bengal, threatening the region with violent winds, flooding, and landslides that could potentially affect hundreds of thousands of the world’s most vulnerable people, said Clare Nullis, of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The agency’s regional specialized meteorological centre...