"HUMANITARIAN CRISIS"

A top UN official told reporters in Geneva help is needed urgently from the international community for some 2,500 apparently stateless “foreign children” at a camp in north-east Syria. UNTV CH

Parties to conflict in Yemen have accepted plan for redeployment of forces from Hodeidah port, Special Envoy tells Security Council at 8512nd meeting.

Addressing the Security Council via video link, the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen, Martin Griffiths, said, “Yemen bleeds. Its people go hungry. Its children, many of them, have not seen the inside of a classroom. In many ways it is one of the world’s most tragic, tragic places.” UNIFEED

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

106,000 people have fled their homes in Idlib province of Syria and at least 190 people have been killed as a direct result of increased military clashes and attacks since February this year, said Thursday Najat Rochdi, Senior Humanitarian Advisor to the UN Special Envoy for Syria. UNTV CH

Following the United States’ efforts to revoke the credentials of Venezuela’s representative to the United Nations, and recognize interim president Juan Guaidó, Venezuela’s Ambassador Samuel Moncada said his country is “campaigning at the United Nations to protect its rights as a full UN member.” UNIFEED

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

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

Survivors of the cyclone that tore through Mozambique on March 14th are braving a world of destruction while recalling the terror of what they have lived through. UNHCR

Expressing concern over the deterioration of the situation in Idlib, Syria, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, Rosemary DiCarlo, told the Security Council this escalation has placed a “strain” on the Memorandum of Understanding between Russia and Turkey that, since September 2018, had “largely contained the scope of military operations in the area.” UNIFEED