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An alarmingly high number of children are suffering the consequences of poor diets and a food system that is failing them, UNICEF warned today in a new report on children, food and nutrition. UNICEF

A large number of armed groups “continue to exact an intolerable toll on civilians and added to an already dire humanitarian situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo,” Leila Zerrougui, the top UN official in the DRC told the Security Council today and highlighted importance of supporting the new Congolese government “to strengthen state functions and its capacity to govern the country in in accordance of the rule of law.” UNIFEED

The Agreement for Peace and Reconciliation from 2014 “remains the sole platform for the return of peace and stability in Mali,” the top UN official in the country Mahamat Saleh Annadif told the Security Council on Tuesday in New York. UNIFEED

“Secretary-General strongly condemned the attacks against the United Nations Peacekeeping mission in Mali,” said the UN Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric in New York today, following two separate attacks on UN peacekeepers, leaving one dead and four injured. UNIFEED

The United Nations Integrated Multidimensional Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) condemned with the utmost energy the attacks on a Malian G5 Sahel unit position in Boulkessi and the Malian Armed Forces (FAMa) in Mondoro, on 30 September and 1st of October 2019 in central Mali. UNIFEED

UN Chef de Cabinet Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti told Security Council, “collaboration between the United Nations, the African Union, its Member States and Africa’s Regional Economic Communities and other regional mechanisms has never been greater.” UNIFEED

The pressing problems in the volatile Sahel region topped the agenda at a high-level meeting at the United Nations where officials stressed that problems there affect the whole world and pledged assistance to help foster greater stability and development. UNIFEED

Speaking on behalf of 19 nations, US Secretary of Health Alex Azar said there is “no international right to an abortion” and called on UN Member States to concentrate of topics that “unite rather than divide on the critical issues surrounding access to health care.” UNIFEED

Peacekeeping Chief Jean-Pierre Lacroix, told the Security Council political solutions “are a prerequisite to sustainable peace, and their pursuit is at the center” of the Secretary-General’s Action for Peacekeeping (A4P) agenda. UNIFEED

Briefing via teleconference from COP14, which takes place in New Delhi, India, from 2 to 13 September, the Executive Secretary of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), Ibrahim Thiaw, said land degradation is generating a “huge loss to the world economy,” estimated to be “between 10 and 17 percent of the global GDP.” UNIFEED