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As a record-breaking 148,000 people have crossed the perilous Darien jungle in early 2023, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) is increasing efforts to provide humanitarian assistance, protection, and information to people in transit, and supporting remote indigenous host communities, by scaling its presence at the borders with Colombia and Costa Rica, and in Panama City. IOM

Briefing reporters on the situation in Sudan, a UN spokesperson said that the Secretary-General dispatched Martin Griffiths, the Emergency Relief Coordinator, to the region “to explore how we can bring immediate relief to millions of people whose lives have been turned upside down by the ongoing fighting in Sudan”. UNIFEED

A dire lack of humanitarian funding has left hundreds of thousands of refugees and internally displaced people in Chad facing hunger in the coming months, UN agencies said on Friday. UNTV CH

Olga Algayerova, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), said that progress on transboundary water cooperation “is badly off track.” UNIFEED

190 million children in 10 African countries are at the highest risk from a convergence of three water-related threats – inadequate water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH); related diseases; and climate hazards – according to a new UNICEF analysis. UNICEF

Hope of finding work is the leading factor driving people to join fast-growing violent extremist groups in Sub-Saharan Africa. This is the key finding of the latest report entitled “Journey to Extremism in Africa: Pathways to Recruitment and Disengagement” launched on Monday by the United Nations Development Programme. UNTV CH

Ahead of the Africa launch of the “Global Alliance to end Aids in children” on 1 February in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, UNAIDS warned today of a “forgotten generation of children” grappling with HIV that are not receiving any treatment. UNTV CH