"HUNGER"

The head of the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS), Volker Perthes, said to the Security Council today that the crisis facing Sudan is “entirely homegrown and can only be resolved by the Sudanese.” UNIFEED

A Senior Civil Affairs Officer from the United Nations in Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) called for an urgent healing and reconciliation process in the southern part of South Sudan’s Unity State, where gruesome attacks on communities in the area have resulted in deaths, beheadings, sexual violence, and abductions. UNMISS

The UN humanitarian agencies are warning that 18 million people in Africa’s Sahel region face severe hunger in the next three months due to a combination of insecurity, the coronavirus pandemic, climate induced shocks and record-high food prices in the region. UNTV CH

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

The head of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) today called for greater funding for agriculture to ensure there’s available and accessible food in crisis situations, noting that conflict “remains the single greatest driver of hunger.” FAO

As the G7 meets, the IMF is working to secure emergency funding to help Ukraine while it is fending off a Russian invasion, Fund spokesman Gerry Rice said Thursday in Washington, DC. IMF

Secretary-General António Guterres told Security Council members that when they “fail to reach consensus, hungry people pay a high price.” UNIFEED

Lack of grain exports driving global hunger to famine levels, as war in Ukraine continues, speakers warn Security Council.

Lack of grain exports driving global hunger to famine levels, as war in Ukraine continues, speakers warn Security Council.

Secretary-General, António Guterres, said, “there is no effective solution” to the current global food crisis “without reintegrating Ukraine’s food production, as well as the food and fertilizer produced by Russia and Belarus, into world markets -- despite the war.” UNIFEED