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WHO is launching its 2023 health emergency appeal today for US$ 2.54 billion to provide assistance to millions of people around the world facing health emergencies. The number of people in need of humanitarian relief has increased by almost a quarter compared to 2022, to a record 339 million. WHO

The number of reported disease outbreaks and climate-related health emergencies in the greater Horn Africa have reached their highest-ever level this century, deepening a health crisis in a region where 47 million people are already facing acute hunger. WHO

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

General Assembly adopts $3.4 billion programme budget for 2023, approves permanent shift to annual cycle, concluding main part of Seventy-Seventh Session.

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

The UN Security Council on Wednesday unanimously adopted a resolution in agreeing to a six-month delay of the planned drawdown of 2,000 African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) personnel. UNIFEED

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

Security Council extends drawdown of African Union Transition Mission in Somalia by six months, unanimously adopting Resolution 2670 (2022).

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