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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

Secretary-General António Guterres spent Sunday in the island of Santo Antão, where, after five years of intense drought, a group of projects supported by the United Nations hopes to transform the agricultural sector of these Atlantic islands. UNIFEED

Secretary-General António Guterres today arrived in Cabo Verde for the Ocean Race Summit – and to take a close look at some of the answers and innovative solutions under way in this 10-island archipelago off the coast of Africa. UNIFEED

Under the Rapid Rural Transformation (RRT) initiative, WFP and partners establish solar-powered hubs to provide essential services to the communities in Madagascar, in an environmentally responsible and sustainable manner. UNTV CH / WFP

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

Actor Idris Elba tells world leaders that poor farmers need investment not handouts at award ceremony in Davos. IFAD

The United Nations General Assembly, with support from the Governments of the Netherlands and Tajikistan, will convene the UN 2023 Water Conference in New York from 22 to 24 March 2023. UNIFEED

A UN spokesperson said that humanitarian needs remain extremely high in parts of Afar and Amhara, Ethiopia, that were impacted by the conflict. UNIFEED

WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that WHO still believes that COVID-19 deaths are "heavily underreported from China," reiterating the need for "doctors and those reporting to the public health system to be encouraged to report these cases and not discouraged.” WHO

As armed groups, coups d’état destabilize West Africa, Sahel, role of United Nations Regional Office key in consolidating democracy, speakers tell Security Council.