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Devastating floods threaten to worsen food insecurity across eastern Africa as heavy rains lash a region that less than a year ago was in the grips of drought, warns the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). WFP

Despite strides in expanding access to insecticide-treated nets and medicines to help prevent malaria in young children and pregnant women, more people were getting sick with malaria, according to a new report published by the World Health Organization (WHO). WHO

A global UN survey on how persons with disabilities are prepared to cope with disasters reveals severe lack of progress since analysis a decade ago. UNDRR / PRACTICAL ACTION

The first-ever Global Conference on Sustainable Livestock Transformation will be hosted in Rome by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) from 25 to 27 September 2023. FAO

Jessica Alupo, Ugandan Vice President, said, “Uganda has been at the forefront of receiving large numbers of refugees from within the region and ranks as one of the top refugee hosting countries.” UNIFEED

Jessica Alupo, Vice President of the Republic of Uganda, addresses the general debate of the 78th Session of the General Assembly of the UN (New York, 19 - 23 and 26 September 2023).

At the halfway mark towards the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), two-thirds of child-related indicators are off-pace to meet their targets, according to a new UNICEF report. UNICEF

A UN spokesperson said that this week peacekeepers in the Central African Republic (CAR) “have facilitated round two of the voluntary repatriation of 15 ex-combatants of the Lord’s Resistance Army and their families to Uganda”. UNIFEED

Noon briefing by Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

Speaking at the UN Food Systems Summit today the President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) Alvaro Lario said that urgent action Is needed to reverse the current damaging costs of unhealthy food systems. IFAD