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The political and security gains made by Somalia over recent years could be at risk of reversal if swift action is not taken by the international community to help local authorities avert a major humanitarian crisis due to the combined effect of devastating floods, desert locusts and the widespread impact of COVID-19. UNSOM

Europe is seeing a “steady” decline in COVID-19 infections, although the generally positive trend has not happened in Russia and parts of Eastern Europe, the UN health agency said on Tuesday. UNTV CH

A new Ebola outbreak has been identified in the western part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo following a “complex” outbreak of the virus disease in the east which, according to WHO chief Tedros Ghebreyesus “seems to be in its final phase.” WHO

Addressing a virtual meeting of the Africa Dialogue Series (ADS), Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said, the COVID-19 pandemic “is affecting capacity to support peace and security efforts in Africa,” and stressed that “failure to respond quickly and adequately could jeopardize progress towards Silencing the Guns by 2020 and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and Africa’s Agenda 2063.” UNIFEED

At the virtual launch of a UN briefing paper focusing on the impact of COVID-19 across Africa, Secretary-General António Guterres said the coronavirus pandemic threatens the hard-earned gains Africans have made throughout the continent. He urged the world to stand in solidarity with the people, “now, and for recovering better." UNIFEED

The United Nations (UN) warned that “24 million people - half of them children, currently need lifesaving assistance and protection” across the Sahel region of Africa, the UN spokesperson read in a statement on Friday. UNIFEED

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus announced today the winners of the first Health for All Film Festival, aimed to showcase the role of individuals and communities as champions for health and well-being. WHO

UN Special Representative David Shearer reaffirmed the organization’s commitment to “doing everything possible” to support South Sudan’s COVID-19 response and stressed, “We are all in this fight together.” UNMISS

The International Labour Organization (ILO) estimates that as many as 1.6 billion of the world’s two billion informal economy workers are affected by COVID-19 lockdown and containment measures and face the "dilemma of choosing between dying from hunger and dying from the disease." ILO

A silent hunger pandemic is poised to sweep across the world, according to the World Food Programme (WFP), with analysis showing that almost a quarter of a billion people could be pushed into severe hunger in 2020 by the fallout from COVID-19. WFP