"OFFICE FOR THE COORDINATION OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS - OCHA"

The UN humanitarian office (OCHA) said Sudan is facing its worst flooding in decades. More than 830,000 people are affected in all of Sudan’s 18 states, and the numbers continue to increase. OCHA

A protracted conflict in eastern Ukraine, in which more than 14,000 people are estimated to have been killed since violence first broke out in 2014, appears to be finally subsiding, according to the UN’s Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). UNTV CH

Humanitarian Chief Mark Lowcock said, “starvation as a method of warfare is prohibited, as is the destruction of objects that are indispensable to civilians’ survival,” but “the problem is that too many people don’t comply with the law.” UNIFEED

Humanitarian Chief Mark Lowcock told the Security Council that “reports from inside Syria continue to point to a much broader spread of COVID-19 that the number of confirmed cases, which is currently about 3,600.” UNIFEED

UN chief of political and peacebuilding affairs Rosemary DiCarlo said, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on peace and security heightened the risk of the erosion of trust in public institutions. UNIFEED

UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said torrential rains and flooding that hit governorates across Yemen in late July and August, are making “an already catastrophic humanitarian situation even worse.” UNIFEED

Heavy seasonal rains have caused severe flooding in Sudan leaving vast damage to people and infrastructure including access to clean water – critical in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic, United Nations reported on Tuesday. UNTV CH

Briefing by Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

The explosion at the port of Beirut on 4 August has resulted in deep human suffering and massive destruction to the Lebanese capital, but it has also revealed a deeper and more devastating problem for the country - widespread and systemic corruption, according to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). UNTV CH

Briefing by Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.