"FOOD AID"

Children across Afghanistan are increasingly vulnerable to disease and illness due to the deadly combination of rising malnutrition, an unprecedented food crisis, drought, disruptions to vital health and nutrition centres, lack of access to and poor quality of water and sanitation services, and crippling winter weather. UNICEF

The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said intercommunal clashes that erupted in Cameroon’s Far North region in the past two weeks have driven at least 100,000 people from their homes, although the real number may be much higher. UNHCR

UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said many people continue to be displaced due to conflict in Ethiopia’s Amhara, Afar and Western Tigray. UNIFEED

The World Food Programme (WFP) said a catastrophe is looming as a humanitarian crisis of staggering proportions unfolds in Afghanistan. WFP

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

Amid grim humanitarian situation in Syria, Special Envoy, briefing Security Council, says Constitutional Committee must continue its work with urgency, purpose.

A UN spokesperson described the situation in northern Ethiopia as “unpredictable and volatile,” adding that humanitarians are “alarmed by the intensification of conflict.” UNIFEED

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

The World Health Organization (WHO) today announced the proposed members of the WHO Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens, or SAGO. The group will advise WHO on the development of a global framework to define and guide studies into the origins of emerging and re-emerging pathogens with epidemic and pandemic potential, including SARS-CoV-2. WHO

The first round of food distributions to people in Afar and Amhara regions impacted by the spread of the conflict in northern Ethiopia has been completed, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday. UNTV CH