"HUMANITARIAN CRISIS"

Senior political, humanitarian officials warn of ‘unimaginable’ consequences in North-West Syria unless critical players exert pressure on belligerents at 8553rd meeting.

Top United Nations political and humanitarian officials painted a dire situation in Yemen as they called for renewed efforts to end the 4-year-long conflict. UNIFEED

United Nations officials urge parties in Yemen to fulfill Stockholm, Hodeidah agreements, amid Security Council calls for opening of aid corridors at 8551st meeting.

Briefing Security Council on Burundi, Assistant Secretary-General voices concern over human rights, humanitarian situation at 8550th meeting.

The official Sudanese announcement that 61 people have died in anti-Government protests in the capital, Khartoum, this month, is likely an underestimation, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday, amid concerns that the insecurity is hampering humanitarian work in the country’s troubled Darfur region. UNTV CH

“Humanitarians are deeply alarmed by the ongoing hostilities in north-western Syria” where the civilians are constantly under attack by artillery, airstrikes and barrel bombs, the UN Humanitarian Office (OCHA) spokesperson Jens Laerke said today in Geneva. UNTV CH

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) hopes that countries can work cooperatively to reduce trade tensions and to reverse a ‘synchronized deceleration’ of global growth, Managing Director Christine Lagarde said Wednesday in Washington. IMF

Gwyn Lewis, Director of UNRWA Operations in the West Bank, and in the centre is Peter Mulrean, Director of UNRWA Representative Office in New York, and Matthias Schmale (right), Director of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) Operations in Gaza, brief press on the current humanitarian situation in the region.

Thousands of acres of crops have been destroyed in Syria’s Idlib and north Hama amid ongoing deadly violence, the World Food Programme (WFP) said in a call to the warring parties to stop using food security to hold people “hostage.” UNTV CH

Chrystia Freeland, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada; Roberto Ampuero, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Chile; Néstor Popolizio, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Peru, brief press on crisis in Venezuela.