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On World AIDS Day, UNAIDS warns that the world could face 7.7 million AIDS-related deaths over the next 10 years. UNAIDS

UNHCR expressed concern over the difficult living conditions of indigenous Warao families from Venezuela who are settled in remote locations across Guyana. UNHCR

Referencing humanitarians on the ground, UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said people in Ethiopia’s Amhara “need shelter, food, and water, as well as medicines and protection,” as fighting in the region has led to many people being newly displaced. UNIFEED

New findings indicate the food crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) shows little sign of abating, and could worsen in the coming months without scaled-up assistance, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) warned today. WFP

As the supply of COVID-19 vaccines is improving, the supply of immunization syringes needs to keep pace warned the World Health Agency today. It raised concerns of a possible deficit of one to two billion immunization syringes in 2022 which would then lead to serious problems such as slowing down immunization efforts. UNTV CH

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today warned that the number of people teetering on the edge of famine (IPC4/Emergency or worse) in 43 countries has risen to 45 million, as acute hunger spikes around the world. This number has risen from 42 million earlier in the year and 27 million in 2019. WFP

International calls for the restoration of a democratic government in Sudan continued on Friday, as the Human Rights Council met in a special session in Geneva to discuss the recent coup by the Sudanese military against the Transitional Government. UNTV CH

Three United Nations organisations are taking the lead in the response to climate change and will announce a new financing mechanism to fill the gaps in basic weather and climate data at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow which begins on 31 October. WMO

UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said humanitarian access to northern Ethiopia “remains challenging,” and noted that avoiding violence in the country would require “all those involved to engage in a political dialogue instead of a weapons dialogue.” UNIFEED

Ahead of the annual UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) on 31 October, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warned that the world is ‘way off-track’ in containing global temperature rise with the concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2), the most important greenhouse gas, reaching 413.2 parts per million in 2020. This is 149 per cent of the pre-industrial level. UNTV CH