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World Food Programme (WFP) urgently needs USD 570 million to feed twelve million of the most vulnerable and food insecure Yemenis for the next six months. Some twenty million Yemenis – or 70 percent of the population – would be severely food insecure without humanitarian food aid. WFP

United Nations Human Rights office is “concerned by the news from Egypt” where fifteen people have been executed so far this month. UNTV CH

South Sudan’s Defense Minister Kuol Mayang Juuk has announced that the government will integrate an Action Plan on grave violations against children into the army training curriculum. UNMISS

United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met today with UN Secretary-General António Guterres in New York. UNIFEED

At a meeting of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), UN chief Antonio Guterres said it was “time to show people that multilateralism can deliver” adding that we needed to show “that politics is a noble undertaking and not merely the pursuit of power.” UNIFEED

The United Nations (UN) expressed its concern about the food shortages expected in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). UNIFEED

The outgoing Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the Central African Republic Parfait Onanga-Anyanga briefed today the Security Council and said the peace agreement recently signed between the Government and the armed groups could be a decisive turning point in the history of the country, although dangers remain. UNIFEED

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko submitted a petition to UN chief Antonio Guterres signed by “thousands and thousands of Ukrainians” appealing for him to “press on Moscow to release the Ukrainian crew members” detained by Russia near the Kerch Strait in November of last year. UNIFEED

UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov said extremists were “on the rise again and the risk of war continues to loom large” adding that for Israelis and Palestinians to get back on track for a peaceful resolution of the conflict “the first thing that is required is leadership.” UNIFEED

Continuing violence and human rights violations, including rape and sexual violence, in South Sudan may amount to war crimes, according the UN body that is reporting to the Human Rights Council on alleged gross violations and abuses of human rights in the country. UNTV CH