"HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS"

A UN humanitarian flight bound for embattled Ethiopia’s Tigray region that departed Addis Ababa this morning was forced to turn back in the midst of its flight, following the airstrikes on Mekele, the Tigray’s regional capital, according to the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarians Affairs (OCHA). UNIFEED

Gemma Connell, Head of OCHA's Regional Office for Southern and Eastern Africa, briefs reporters on the situation in Ethiopia.

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

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

Letters to Somalia covered possible adjustment of arms embargo, Sanctions Committee chair says, in Security Council briefing.

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

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

Failure in delivering aid for Yemenis ‘the worst international response to a humanitarian crisis’, civil society briefer tells Security Council.

The spokesperson for the Secretary-General, Stéphane Dujarric told journalists “fierce fighting” continues in Yemen, “including in Marib, Shabwah and Al Bayda governorates, where clashes have escalated over recent weeks,” and said “this escalation is having an increasingly devastating impact on civilians.” UNIFEED

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