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UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said humanitarian access to northern Ethiopia “remains challenging,” and noted that avoiding violence in the country would require “all those involved to engage in a political dialogue instead of a weapons dialogue.” UNIFEED

A UN spokesperson described the situation in northern Ethiopia as “unpredictable and volatile,” adding that humanitarians are “alarmed by the intensification of conflict.” UNIFEED

The spokesperson for the Secretary-General, Stéphane Dujarric said, “alarming reports” from Ethiopia indicate that aerial attacks took place this morning in the residential areas of Tigray’s capital Mekelle. UNIFEED

Following the completion of a technical assessment, the Secretariat of the United Nations has responded positively to the request of the National Electoral Council of Venezuela to deploy a UN Panel of Electoral Experts for the November 2021 regional and municipal elections, A UN spokesperson told reporters in New York. UNIFEED

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is deeply concerned about the violence witnessed in Beirut today and called on all concerned to “immediately cease acts of violence and refrain from any provocative actions or inflammatory rhetoric,” according to a spokesperson. UNIFEED

The spokesperson for the Secretary-General, Stéphane Dujarric told journalists “fierce fighting” continues in Yemen, “including in Marib, Shabwah and Al Bayda governorates, where clashes have escalated over recent weeks,” and said “this escalation is having an increasingly devastating impact on civilians.” UNIFEED

The spokesperson for the Secretary-General, Stéphane Dujarric announced that the national investigation by Gabonese authorities on the Sexual Exploitation and Abuse allegations concerning the Gabonese contingent in the Central African Republic under the UN flag, is now “underway jointly with the UN's office of internal oversight services, and with the support of the UN senior victim rights advocate in the Central African Republic.” UNIFEED

“Disparities in multi-dimensional poverty across ethnic and racial groups are greater than disparities across geographical and subnational regions,” according to the UNDP global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) released today, the United Nations Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said at the press conference in New York. UNIFEED

“Five million people are being affected by the ongoing water crisis” in the north and northeast of Syria, the United Nations said on Tuesday, calling for a “multi sector response” of USD 251 million to target 3.4 million of the most impacted people over the next six months. UNIFEED

The United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) has announced the decision by the Secretariat to repatriate all Gabonese military units from the Central African Republic, effective immediately, a UN spokesperson said. UNIFEED