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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), through a data-driven process called Anticipatory Action, systematically links early warnings to actions designed to protect families and their assets ahead of a natural disaster. FAO

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) said it has provided emergency food assistance to over one million people since it started its distribution in March in north-western and southern zones of Ethiopia’s Tigray region. WFP

The spokesperson for Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the opening of the Kerem Shalom crossing has allowed dozens of fuel trucks from UNRWA to enter Gaza, but “regrettably, other essential humanitarian cargo was unable to cross.” UNIFEED

The spokesperson for Secretary-General Antonio Guterres reported “significant displacement of Palestinians, with over 38,000 internally displaced people seeking protection in 48 schools" across the Gaza Strip, and added that “over 2,500 people have been made homeless.” UNIFEED

Severe hunger hits southern Madagascar as communities witness an almost total disappearance of food sources, creating a full-blown nutrition emergency and quadrupling the number of children admitted for treatment for severe acute malnutrition. WFP

The stark warning from the 2021 Global Report on Food Crises released on Wednesday revealed that conflict, or economic shocks that are often related to COVID-19 along with extreme weather, are continuing to push millions of people into acute food insecurity. UNIFEED

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

A humanitarian catastrophe caused by unrelenting drought is unfolding in southern Madagascar where children and adults are on the “periphery of famine”, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said today in an urgent appeal for international support. UNTV CH

The World Food Programme (WFP) said “unrelenting drought” in southern Madagascar is forcing hundreds of thousands of people to “the brink of famine,” according to a UN spokesperson. UNIFEED

The World Food Programme’s Deputy Country Director in Myanmar, Marcus Prior, said an estimated 3.4 million people could fall into “worrying stages of food insecurity” over the next six months and potentially require assistance. UN NEWS / WFP