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UN Secretary-General António Guterres told business leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland that the world is “doomed” in the face of climate change unless major industrial nations reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. WEF

Marking the International Day of Education, the President of the General Assembly, Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, said, “it is unacceptable that twenty years into the 21st Century, about 258 million children and youth do not attend school, 617 million children and adolescents cannot read and do basic math and millions of refugees and internally displaced persons, and people with disabilities are out of school.” UNIFEED

A spokesperson for the UN human rights office (OHCHR) welcomed an order by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that Myanmar “must take ‘all measures within its power’ to protect the members of the Rohingya group from all future acts that may amount to genocide.” UNTV CH

The UN humanitarian office (OCHA) said it released ten million USD from its Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to scale up its response to the devastating desert locust outbreak in East Africa. OCHA said the Horn of Africa has been hit by the worst invasion of desert locusts in 25 years, posing a threat to food security to the population in East Africa that is already experiencing a high degree of food insecurity. UNTV CH

A peace sensitization campaign targeting illegally armed cattle owners in camps has begun in parts of South Sudan, in a collaborative effort between the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) and local authorities. UNMISS

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that the respiratory disease Novel Coronavirus, is not yet an official Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) but warned that it is an emergency in China. WHO

The UN Special Envoy for Yemen Martin Griffiths is deeply alarmed by the latest round of violence in Yemen which resulted in the death of many innocent civilians, a UN spokesperson told reporters in New York. UNIFEED

The UN Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) reported that “a group of armed members of the Misseriya community attacked a Dinka community in the Kolom area, north-west of Abyei town, yesterday, killing at least 32 people, including women and children, and wounding dozens.” UNIFEED

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) today indicated provisional measures in order to preserve certain rights claimed by The Gambia for the protection of the Rohingya in Myanmar. ICJ

United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned that Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia are dealing with desert locust swarms of “unprecedented size and destructive potential” that could spill over into more countries in East Africa. FAO