"HUMANITARIAN EMERGENCIES"

The UN’s top diplomat in Afghanistan Deborah Lyons said more than 50 Afghanistan’s 370 districts have fallen to the Taliban since the beginning of May, most of which surround provincial capitals, “suggesting that the Taliban are positioning themselves to try and take these capitals once foreign forces are fully withdrawn.” UNIFEED

UNICEF, WFP and WHO are extremely concerned about the situation in Tigray region where the risk of famine is imminent, unless food, livelihood assistance and other life-saving intervention continue to be scaled, unimpeded access is guaranteed, and hostilities cease. UNTV CH

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet has issued a strong warning of “imminent further bloodshed and suffering in Myanmar,” her spokesperson said. UNTV CH

New data from the World Food Programme (WFP) has confirmed the magnitude of the hunger emergency gripping Tigray, where at least 4 million people face severe hunger and 350,000 of them are facing famine. WFP

Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Inger Andersen told the Security Council that a spill or an explosion of the SAFER oil tanker off the coast of Yemen would “directly affect millions of people in a country that is already enduring the world's largest humanitarian emergency.” UNIFEED

Gaza children living in ‘hell on earth’ Secretary-General tells General Assembly, as calls for end to violence crescendo, news of Israel-Hamas ceasefire breaks.

Gaza children living in ‘hell on earth’ Secretary-General tells General Assembly, as calls for end to violence crescendo, news of Israel-Hamas ceasefire breaks.

Gaza children living in ‘hell on earth’ Secretary-General tells General Assembly, as calls for end to violence crescendo, news of Israel-Hamas ceasefire breaks.

Ministers in Security Council stress need to adapt, reform ancient United Nations structures, as multilateralism erodes under weight of multiple challenges.

Mounting numbers of people face acute hunger and require urgent life-saving assistance, with number acutely hungry people in countries hit by food crises reaching in 2020 the highest level in five years, an annual report launched by an international alliance of UN, governmental and non-governmental agencies working to tackle food crises together has found. FAO