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

Updating reporters on cholera in Yemen, a UN spokesperson said, “nearly 223,000 suspected cases have been reported so far this year, this is three times the number of cases reported during the same period last year.” UNIFEED

Parties to conflict in Yemen have accepted plan for redeployment of forces from Hodeidah port, Special Envoy tells Security Council at 8512nd meeting.

Addressing the Security Council via video link, the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen, Martin Griffiths, said, “Yemen bleeds. Its people go hungry. Its children, many of them, have not seen the inside of a classroom. In many ways it is one of the world’s most tragic, tragic places.” UNIFEED

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

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

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, told the Security Council that most of the nearly 70 million displaced are fleeing conflict, and “if conflicts were prevented or resolved, most refugee flows would disappear.” UNIFEED

An attack on a school in the Yemeni capital Sana’a over the weekend which killed 14 youngsters and critically injured 16 others has been condemned by the UN, amid reports that a child dies every 10 minutes from “preventable causes” in the war-torn country. UNTV CH

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

The Global Food Crises Report for 2019 highlighted Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as second only to Yemen in terms of the severity of its food crisis with some 13 million Congolese people acutely food insecure. WFP