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More than two weeks after deadly Cyclone Mocha hit Myanmar, aid access is uncertain, disease is spreading and a major food crisis remains a very real threat, the UN said on Friday. UNTV CH

United Nations officials in New York and in Yemen gave details on the arrival of a support ship to start the process of transferring out the oil from the FSO Safer super tanker, moored off Yemen’s Red Sea coast, to another vessel. UNIFEED

A UN spokesperson said that 78 people died and many were injured in a stampede outside the Old City of Sana’a in Yemen. He also updated reporters on the FCO Safer oil tanker. UNIFEED

“The Nautica, which is a very large crude carrier set sail today from Zhoushan in China to remove more than a million barrels of oil from the decaying Safer tanker,” said a UN Spokesperson. UNIFEED

“In Kenya, I walked beside women and girls as they risked their lives each day to fetch water. And closer to here, just last week, I ran through California San Joaquin Valley, listening to farmers explained the threat to their crops, livelihoods and communities of what is now a 23-year drought,” ultramarathon runner said at the 2023 Water Conference’s Interactive Dialogue. UNIFEED

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) signed an agreement to secure the purchase of a large vessel as part of the UN-coordinated operation to remove more than a million barrels of oil from a decaying tanker off Yemen’s Red Sea coast, the agency’s administrator informed. UNIFEED

Today, the Fifth UN Conference on the Least Developed Countries in Doha, Qatar, turned its attention to one of our most nettlesome global challenges: closing the staggeringly wide digital divide between nations. UNIFEED

According to the United Nations Development Programme, one year on, aspirations for Ukrainians must be greater than simply survival. UNDP

As the death toll from the 6 February earthquake disaster topped 41,000 in Türkiye, the UN development experts said that 1.5 million people have been made homeless in the south of the country, where at least 500,000 new homes will need to be built. UNTV CH

Presenting the Secretary-General’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) stimulus plan, the Administrator of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Achim Steiner said the plan “calls for a measurable increase in resources available to combat the current crisis of at least 500 billion dollars a year through expanded lending, and potentially over 1.8 trillion.” UNIFEED