"WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME - WFP"

Under the Rapid Rural Transformation (RRT) initiative, WFP and partners establish solar-powered hubs to provide essential services to the communities in Madagascar, in an environmentally responsible and sustainable manner. UNTV CH / WFP

United Nations agencies are calling for urgent action to protect the most vulnerable children in the 15 countries hardest hit by an unprecedented food and nutrition crisis. WHO

Noon briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

The Security Council mandate for UN cross-border aid operations from Türkiye to north-west Syria runs until 10 January 2023 - at the peak of winter. With no alternative available to meet the scale and scope of needs, millions of Syrians depend on the Council extending this lifeline. OCHA

From the war in Ukraine to the response in health crisis and providing life-saving humanitarian aid, the work of the United Nations remained vital in a year marked by multiple overlapping crises. UNIFEED

Noon briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

After a historic drought triggered by five consecutive poor rainy seasons, skyrocketing food prices and an intensifying conflict, Somalia has been lingering on the brink of famine. UNTV CH

End-of-year press briefing by Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations.

Cycle of violence, bloodshed between Israelis, Palestinians untenable, delegate stresses at Security Council briefing on Middle East.

A UN spokesperson informed that aid workers continue to support Ukrainian authorities with generators to keep hospitals working, and to make sure centres for displaced people are warm enough as “another wave of missile strikes today have left millions without electricity and water in some regions in the north, centre and south, as well as in capital Kyiv”. UNIFEED