"HUMANITARIAN EMERGENCIES"

Mass displacement due to drought and conflict has resulted in devastating food insecurity in the Afar region in Ethiopia, pushing children and their families to the brink. UNICEF

A special session of the UN Human Rights Council met on Thursday in Geneva, prompted by increasing concern over atrocities against civilians linked to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February. UNTV CH

Third humanitarian convoy under way to evacuate civilians from besieged Ukraine city, Secretary-General tells Security Council.

The Humanitarian Coordinator in Ukraine, Osnat Lubrani, said that 127 civilians were successfully evacuated from the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol in an operation coordinated by the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross. UNIFEED

UN humanitarians said on Tuesday that they were standing ready to help receive a group of evacuees from the heavily damaged Azovstal steelworks complex in the embattled Ukrainian city of Mariupol, more than two months since Russia’s invasion of its neighbour. UNTV CH

As UN chief António Guterres traveled to Moscow on Tuesday, insisting that he would do “everything possible to end the war as soon as possible” in Ukraine and minimize suffering, ongoing clashes in the east have continued to increase humanitarian needs, aid agencies have confirmed. UNTV CH

On Friday, UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet condemned the “horrors” committed against civilians, and the World Health Organization warned that it feared the worst in devastated areas in the east and south of the country. UNTV CH

UN aid agencies and partners said on Tuesday that they continue to mobilise inside Ukraine to help the country’s most vulnerable people amid ongoing devastating Russian shelling and attacks on health care facilities and personnel. UNTV CH

On a visit to Hargeisa a senior United Nations official pledged the world body’s support for efforts to rebuild the Waheen marketplace which was recently destroyed in a blaze. UNSOM

According to a WHO spokesperson, in Ukraine, health care attacks continue as the battleground moves east. UNTV CH