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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

The IMF is working with authorities in several African countries to provide help stabilizing their economies and financial situations spokesperson Julie Kozack told reporters Thursday in Washington, DC. IMF

On the sidelines of the UN 2023 Water conference, delegates discussed how to advance transboundary water cooperation through the application of international water law principles at basin and regional levels. UNIFEED

The Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Tor Wennesland, told the Security Council that he remains “deeply troubled by continued Israeli settlement expansion”, warning that it can “further entrench the occupation, fuel tensions, and systematically erode the viability of a Palestinian State as part of a two-State solution.” UNIFEED

Ten million children in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger - twice as many as in 2020 - are in extreme jeopardy in central Sahel and caught up in a brutal armed conflict with insecurity spilling over into neighboring countries, the UN Children’s Fund said today. UNTV CH

According to UNICEF, 10 million children are in extreme jeopardy in central Sahel as insecurity seeps into neighbouring countries. UNICEF

The Security Council adopted a resolution on extending the mandate of the UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) until 15 March 2024. UNIFEED

The benchmark index of international food commodity prices declined in February for the eleventh consecutive month, albeit only marginally, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) reported today. UNIFEED

The Director of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees' (UNHCR) Regional Bureau for West and Central Africa, Millicent Mutuli, said today that the agency has “a growing concern for the number of people fleeing to coastal countries to escape crisis in Burkina Faso.” UNIFEED

War leaving invisible scars for Ukrainians, Under-Secretary-General tells Security Council, noting one fourth of population will develop mental-health condition.