"FOOD SHORTAGE"

Due to recent conflicts in Pibor, South Sudan, a high-level delegation visited the region to encourage local authorities to protect communities and build peace. UNMISS

Severe hunger hits southern Madagascar as communities witness an almost total disappearance of food sources, creating a full-blown nutrition emergency and quadrupling the number of children admitted for treatment for severe acute malnutrition. WFP

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and aid partners launched a US$1.2 billion appeal for vital humanitarian assistance for more than 2.2 million South Sudanese refugees, two-thirds of whom are children. UNHCR

As hunger levels continue to deepen in South Sudan due to a combination of violence, climate change and Covid-19, the 2021 South Sudan Humanitarian Response Plan was launched today aiming to reach 6.6 million people – including 350,000 refugees - with life-saving assistance and protection this year. UNTV CH

Virtual Press Conference by David Beasley, Executive Director, World Food Programme (WFP), on his recent trip to Yemen.

Following his recent visit to Burkina Faso, Acting Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Ramesh Rajasingham told reporters in New York that life-saving response must be scaled up to meet “growing humanitarian needs in many parts of the country,” and “credible solutions, sustainable solutions” are necessary “to prevent this from becoming a protracted crisis with no end point in sight.” UNIFEED

Following the Virtual High-Level Pledging Event for the Humanitarian Situation in Yemen, UN Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications Melissa Fleming moderates a press conference with panelists Mark Lowcock, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Per Olsson Fridh, Swedish Minister for International Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Affairs, and Manuel Bessler, Delegate of the Federal Council and Head of Swiss Humanitarian Aid.

Aid organisations are warning of a potential humanitarian disaster as hostilities rise and civilians flee the fighting in and around the city of Marib, some 120 kilometers east of the Yemeni capital Sana’a. UNTV CH

South Sudan is facing the highest levels of food insecurity since the country declared independence ten years ago, WITH Hard-to-reach areas in six counties at “risk of famine”, according to the Famine Review Committee’s report released in December 2020. WFP

More than 200,000 people have been forced to flee in the Central African Republic (CAR). UNHCR is urgently appealing to the international community to mobilize funds, so humanitarian organizations can deliver life-saving assistance to the Central African refugees and their hosts. UNHCR