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The number of people forced to flee conflict, violence, human rights violations and persecution has now crossed the staggering milestone of 100 million for the first time on record, propelled by the war in Ukraine and other deadly conflicts. UNHCR

More than 600,000 Ukrainian refugees arrived in Germany since the war broke out. Among them many people living with HIV, mostly women. UNAIDS estimates that 260,000 Ukrainians live with HIV. Up to 30,000 fled their country since the start of the war and need HIV treatment. UNAIDS

Records in four out of seven key climate indicators were broken last year, UN climate scientists said on Wednesday, as the UN Secretary-General renewed his call for governments everywhere to end their reliance on fossil fuels “before we incinerate our only home.” UNTV CH

While great progress has been made to remove all known landmines and other explosive remnants of war in South Sudan, some of the country’s communities are still endangered by their presence. Ilene Cohn, Acting Director of the United Nations Mine Action Service, UNMAS, recently visited one of them, Gondokoro near the capital Juba, as part of her assessment of mine action activities in the youngest nation of the world. UNMISS

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

UN Humanitarian Coordinator Sara Beysolow Nyanti led a high-level delegation to Malakal, in South Sudan’s Upper Nile State, to assess needs on the ground and to meet with people affected by ongoing violence and natural disasters. UNMISS

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told a ministerial roundtable hosted by the World Bank Group and the Ukrainian Government “with your financial support we will quickly rebuild our nation.” WORLD BANK

Michael Dunford, World Food Program's Regional Director for East Africa said that there is a real risk of famine due to the drought in the Horn of Africa, adding that funding gap is forcing the Programme to make very tough choices – “taking from the hungry to feed the starving.” UNIFEED

Briefing by Michael Dunford, World Food Programme's Regional Director for East Africa, on the drought in the Horn of Africa. 

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