"OFFICE FOR THE COORDINATION OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS - OCHA"

Gemma Connell, Head of Office, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs’ Regional Office for Southern & Eastern Africa. She will brief reporters via telephone-link on the humanitarian situation and response in Mozambique, following Cyclone Idai, as well as the impact in Malawi and Zimbabwe.

Briefing by Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

With the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) facing one of the largest and most complex humanitarian crises in the world, UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore and Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock called for urgent and sustained funding for the Government-led response to meet the needs of children, families and vulnerable communities including people with disabilities. UNICEF

The full scale of the devastation caused by Tropical Cyclone Idai in south-west Africa is becoming clearer, aid teams said today, warning that the emergency “is getting bigger by the hour.” UNTV CH

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

A major aid operation is under way in Mozambique and Malawi to help victims of tropical cyclone Idai, which made landfall near the densely-populated Mozambican port city of Beira after registering maximum wind speeds of nearly 200 kilometres per hour. UNTV CH

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

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

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

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