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The full scale of the double earthquake disaster in Türkiye and Syria is still unfolding, UN humanitarians said on Tuesday, as they stressed the critical need to step up search and rescue efforts for victims and ensure that lifesaving aid reaches all those who need it. UNTV CH

Over the past 11 months, 30 United Nations inter-agency convoys have delivered crucial aid supply to the most vulnerable people in acute need across Ukraine. While several trucks reached areas close to the frontlines, the lack of safe access to Russian-held zones in Ukraine has prevented aid deliveries to the population there. UNTV CH

During a two-day high-level conference on the Lake Chad Basin, Governments of the region – Niger, Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon - as well as international donors and international organizations came together to discuss the needs in order to “heal the region’s wounds”. UNTV CH

As humanitarian needs continue to rise worldwide, the United Nations and partners will launch tomorrow the Global Humanitarian Overview, their annual assessment and plan to alleviate the suffering in 2023. OCHA

With more than 50 percent of Ukraine’s capital Kyiv and the majority of Ukraine’s oblasts being without electricity while winter sets in, the humanitarian needs for the population are rising by the day. UNTV CH

Hans Grundberg, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen, said, “I want the parties to the conflict to not only renew the truce but crucially to commit to taking steps towards a comprehensive resolution of the conflict.” UNIFEED

This morning, the United Nations, led by Humanitarian Coordinator Denise Brown, delivered supplies to help thousands of civilians in the city of Kherson, in southern Ukraine, less than 72 hours after the Government of Ukraine regained control of the city. OCHA

Advocating for quotas for women in Syrian political bodies “of at least thirty percent,” the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria, Geir Pedersen, said in over nearly 12 years of conflict, “there is almost no indignity Syria’s women and girls have not suffered.” UNIFEED

UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths visited Baidoa in Bay region, the epicenter of the hunger crisis ripping through Somalia. Despite the immense suffering he has witnessed, he feared that “the worst is yet to come” for the people of Somalia. OCHA

Speaking from Kharkiv in northeast Ukraine, where shelling has intensified in the last week, the United Nations’ top aid official in Ukraine issued an urgent appeal for guarantees from Russia and affiliated forces to allow humanitarians to deliver. UNTV CH