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As a record-breaking 148,000 people have crossed the perilous Darien jungle in early 2023, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) is increasing efforts to provide humanitarian assistance, protection, and information to people in transit, and supporting remote indigenous host communities, by scaling its presence at the borders with Colombia and Costa Rica, and in Panama City. IOM

With the conflict in Sudan entering its second month, the United Nations and its partners today called for US$3 billion to help millions of people in the country and hundreds of thousands fleeing to neighbouring countries. UNHCR

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warned on Friday that cyclone Mocha has intensified very quickly in the warm waters of the Bay of Bengal and could bring major impacts both ahead and after landfall for potentially hundreds of thousands of the world’s most vulnerable people when it hits Myanmar and Bangladesh this weekend. UNTV CH

The number of internally displaced persons in Sudan had more than doubled in the last week, and more than 700’000 people were now internally displaced since armed clashes erupted between the Sudanese Army Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in multiple cities across Sudan, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said today. UNTV CH

While the humanitarian needs for an estimated 100,000 refugees who have been fleeing the conflict in Sudan into neighboring countries are getting more and more dramatic, UN humanitarian agencies and partners are facing a funding gap of USD 1.5 billion. UNTV CH

Petteri Taalas, Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization, said that negative trends in weather patterns may continue until the 2060s “independently of our success in climate mitigation.” UNTV CH

The Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), António Vitorino, said that “there is a need an urgent need to bring all these positive aspects on the narrative of migration to compensate some of the flip sides of migration that also exist.” UNIFEED

The Special Adviser on Africa to the Secretary General, Cristina Duarte, warned the Security Council that “the absence of development policies or the existence of policies and programmes that do not deliver inclusive development can act as a root cause of conflicts.” UNIFEED

According to the International Organization for Migration, with nearly half a million Venezuelan nationals, Ecuador hosts the third largest Venezuelan migrant population worldwide, after Colombia and Peru. IOM

According to the International Organization for Migration, the outflow of refugees and migrants from Venezuela is one of the largest displacement crises in the world. IOM