"OFFICE FOR THE COORDINATION OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS - OCHA"

UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock told the Security Council failure to extend the cross-border authorization into Syria “would sever the UN operation currently underway” in the country’s northwest and stressed that it would “cause suffering and death.” UNIFEED

Syrian communities devastated by years of civil war now face an “unprecedented” hunger crisis, just as urgent action is needed to prevent COVID-19 from spreading, UN humanitarians said today. UNTV CH

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

UN Humanitarian agencies warned that aid projects face closure due to a severe lack of funding as COVID-19 spreads in war-torn Yemen. UNICEF

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

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

Addressing the annual ECOSOC Humanitarian Affairs Segment (HAS), humanitarian chief Mark Lowcock said the response to the COVID-19 pandemic “must be proportionate to the scale of the problem we face,” and may require approximately 90 billion US dollars. UNIFEED

Help and funding are needed urgently for millions of people in Nigeria who have been hit severely by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, including conflict-hit communities “on life-support” in the north-east, UN humanitarians said on Tuesday. UNTV CH

Harassment, attacks, abductions and extortions of aid workers are dramatically on the rise in the English-speaking regions of Cameroon, according to the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). UNTV CH

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