"TRANSPORT"

Over the past 11 months, 30 United Nations inter-agency convoys have delivered crucial aid supply to the most vulnerable people in acute need across Ukraine. While several trucks reached areas close to the frontlines, the lack of safe access to Russian-held zones in Ukraine has prevented aid deliveries to the population there. UNTV CH

The number of reported disease outbreaks and climate-related health emergencies in the greater Horn Africa have reached their highest-ever level this century, deepening a health crisis in a region where 47 million people are already facing acute hunger. WHO

UN Special Envoy for Yemen Hans Grundberg told the Security Council that the absence of large-scale fighting is positive for the continuation of the elements operated under the truce. UNIFEED

WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that WHO still believes that COVID-19 deaths are "heavily underreported from China," reiterating the need for "doctors and those reporting to the public health system to be encouraged to report these cases and not discouraged.” WHO

Giovanie Biha, Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for West Africa and the Sahel, told the Security Council, “Despite efforts by national security forces and international partners, insecurity has again deteriorated in large parts of the region.” UNIFEED

A UN-backed panel of experts concluded that the ozone layer recovery is on track, helping avoid global warming. UNIFEED

Since June 2022, a combination of heavy rains and riverine, urban, and flash flooding has led to an unprecedented natural disaster in Pakistan. Floods have affected 33 million people, with more than 1,730 lives lost as well as 2 million housing units impacted, and several thousands of schools and hospitals damaged or destroyed. FILE

General Assembly adopts $3.4 billion programme budget for 2023, approves permanent shift to annual cycle, concluding main part of Seventy-Seventh Session.

From the war in Ukraine to the response in health crisis and providing life-saving humanitarian aid, the work of the United Nations remained vital in a year marked by multiple overlapping crises. UNIFEED

As 2022 comes to an end, the conflict in Ukraine shows no signs of waning. UNIFEED / FILE