"EAST AFRICA"

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

Briefing by Eri Kaneko, Associate Spokesperson of the Secretary-General.

Informal comments to the media by Mariam al-Mahdi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sudan, on peace and security in Africa.

Yemen, South Sudan and northern Nigeria are on top of the list facing catastrophic levels of acute hunger, with families in pockets of South Sudan and Yemen already in the grip of, or at risk of, starvation and death according to a new report. UNTV CH

The World Food Programme (WFP) and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) appealed today for US$266 million to end food ration cuts for over 3 million refugees in East Africa. UNTV CH

After making landfall on Saturday, tropical cyclone Eloise has claimed several dead, a dozen injuries and several thousands of people displaced in Mozambique, the UN’s humanitarian office said today. UNTV CH

Press Conference by Dominique Burgeon, Director of Emergencies and Resilience, FAO; Keith Cressman, Senior Locust Forecasting Officer, FAO; and Cyril Ferrand, FAO Resilience team leader for Eastern Africa: on the current desert locust situation and FAO’s response.

A senior official at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said significant progress has been made in the combat against Desert Locust in the Horn of Africa but stressed that “we should not be complacent” as the threat persists. UNIFEED

Battles have been won in fighting the Desert Locust upsurge in East Africa, but the campaign is not over yet. FAO

The livelihood of agro-pastoralists in Turkana County in Kenya has been greatly affected by the ongoing desert locust infestation, where up to twenty percent of crops were damaged in areas where the pest was present. FAO