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UNHCR expressed concern over the difficult living conditions of indigenous Warao families from Venezuela who are settled in remote locations across Guyana. UNHCR

The number of people in need of humanitarian food assistance across northern Ethiopia has spiked as a direct result of ongoing conflict, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday. UNTV CH

Amid escalating conflict in Yemen, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) warned on Tuesday that access to lifesaving aid is becoming harder for civilians in Marib governorate, including more than one million people who are estimated to be displaced there. UNTV CH

Noon briefing by Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the United Nations Secretary-General.

The current flooding across South Sudan’s Unity State has had a devastating impact on people’s lives. Homes have been destroyed, crop cycles and harvests ruined, and displaced civilians are desperately seeking higher ground to shelter in. It is an emergency like no other that people living here have witnessed. UNMISS

On board this aircraft are United Nations peacekeepers in South Sudan. They are on a mission to conflict-ridden Tambura, Western Equatoria, led by Lieutenant-General Shailesh Tinaikar, the Force Commander of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan. UNMISS

Tens of thousands of refugees and host communities are displaced by flooding in Sudan. UNHCR and partners are providing emergency assistance but more support is urgently needed. UNHCR

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

The head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) Deborah Lyons told the Security Council, “our tension now must turn to the vastly greater number of Afghans who remain in the country, but face in the short term the most dire future,” adding that “we are on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe that is preventable.” UNIFEED

Abandoning Afghanistan now, amid humanitarian crisis, would be ‘historic mistake’, Special Representative tells Security Council.