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A senior official at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said significant progress has been made in the combat against Desert Locust in the Horn of Africa but stressed that “we should not be complacent” as the threat persists. UNIFEED

As COVID-19 cases spike in Europe, Africa and the Americas, WHO’s Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, “we are collectively not succeeding at breaking the chains of transmission at the community level or within households. We need to close the gap between intent and implementation at the country and individual level because at present there is immense pressure on hospitals and health workers." WHO

COVID-19 has disrupted all forms of human mobility through the closing of national borders and halting of travel worldwide. Preliminary estimates suggest that the pandemic may have slowed the growth in the stock of international migrants by around two million by mid- 2020, 27 per cent less than the growth expected since mid-2019, according to a report by the United Nations released today. UNIFEED

Force Commander of the UN peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) Gen. Daniel Sidiki Traore visited today the areas PK12 and PK13, in the commune of Begoua, where unidentified armed combatants attacked security forces and peacekeepers on Wednesday (13 Jan). MINUSCA

World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Tuesday that the three-years-long drought coupled with a sharp recession triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic will leave a third of the population in Southern Madagascar struggling to put food on the table. WFP

In southern Madagascar, “famine-like conditions” have doubled the number of people in need of humanitarian assistance compared with last year, to more than 1.3 million; successive droughts and a lack of jobs linked to COVID-19 restrictions are to blame, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday. UNTV CH

The head of the UN Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS) Mohamed Ibn Chambas said, “insecurity continues to prevail and to harm innocent lives” in West Africa and the Sahel region, adding that “after the end of the rainy season, militants have again staged audacious and deadly attacks, notably in Niger, where more than 100 people died in just one assault nine days ago.” UNIFEED

Secretary-General António Guterres said fragility and conflict “are among the greatest obstacles to implementation of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda,” and even before the COVID-19 pandemic, “the conflict landscape was deteriorating.” UNIFEED

A flag Installation ceremony of the newly elected non-permanent members to the Security Council for the term 2021-2022 - Mexico, India, Ireland, Kenya, and Norway - took place today at UN Headquarters. UNIFEED

Sealed ballot boxes containing votes from seven out of 16 prefectures Central Africa Republic have arrived Wednesday at the premises of the National Elections Authority (ANE) in capital Bangui. MINUSCA