"AFRICA"

A near doubling of food-insecure people in West and Central Africa -- up to 57,6 million from 36 million -- is expected by the end of 2020 as a result of measures necessary to contain the spread of Covid-19, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) announced on Friday. UNTV CH

World is off track to achieve the three zeros of the envisioned global HIV response (zero new HIV infections, zero AIDS-related deaths and zero discrimination) by 2030, according to a new report released by UNAIDS. UNAIDS

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is working with partners to protect crops and livelihoods in East Africa, amid the region’s biggest locust outbreak in decades.

Ambassador Christoph Heusgen, Permanent Representative of Germany to the United Nations, and the President of the Security Council for July, briefs journalists on the Council’s Programme of Work for the month.

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

Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam Agreement within reach, Under-Secretary-General tells Security Council, as trilateral talks proceed to settle remaining differences.

The Security Council renews the mandates of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) in the Golan until 31 December 2020, and the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) until 30 June 2021.

Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs Rosemary DiCarlo commended Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt for their continuing negotiations on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), and said "the remaining differences are technical and legal in nature." UNIFEED

The progress made in testing COVID-19 samples at Somalia’s primary reference laboratory was hailed as critical to the Somali response to the coronavirus pandemic by the United Nations envoy to the country – and with an important role to play in its future. UNSOM

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) announced a massive rise in the number of hungry people it plans to assist around the world, as the devastating socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic push millions more people into food insecurity in low- and middle-income countries. WFP