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Together with the Government of Burkina Faso, UNICEF and Enfants du Monde, Education Cannot Wait (ECW) – the global fund dedicated to education in emergencies and protracted crises – launched a new multi-year programme that aims to provide education to over 800,000 children and adolescents in crisis-affected regions of the country. ECW

COVAX, the global initiative to ensure rapid and equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines for all countries, regardless of income level, today announced the signing of an advance purchase agreement with Pfizer for up to 40 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine candidate, which has already received WHO emergency use listing. WHO

The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), is calling for an end to the unrelenting violence in Africa’s Sahel which has now displaced more than two million people within the borders of their countries for the first time ever. UNHCR

As another round of talks on Syria’s future constitution is set to begin at United Nations premises in Switzerland on Monday, Geir Pedersen, the UN Special Envoy for Syria, expressed his hope that the co-chairs of the 45-member committee, known in diplomatic parlance as the Small Body, will agree on work plans with clear agendas and topics and with an urgency in delivering progress in this process. UNTV CH

Smartphone technology is helping rice farmers save their harvests in Vietnam, as the International Fund for Agricultural Development warned that without immediate action to help small-scale farmers adapt to climate change the hunger and migration will increase globally. IFAD

The Al Hol camp, Syria’s largest site for refugees and displaced persons, has been the site of 12 killings since the beginning of the year, the United Nations humanitarian office reported today. UNTV CH

At an event to launch the International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour, a survivor challenged leaders to “not just only imagine a world without child labour, but to act on it so it becomes our reality." UNIFEED

Briefing the Security Council on the situation in the Central African Republic (CAR), the top UN official in the country Mankeur Ndiaye said the CAR “is at grave risk of a setback in terms of security and peacebuilding,” in the aftermath of the elections marred by violence. UNIFEED

At the meeting of the Executive Board of the World Health Organization (WHO) today, WHO Director-General Dr Tedros welcomed the pledge that the United States will remain a member of WHO. WHO

UN teams in Guatemala and Honduras are working with governments and partners to protect a caravan of migrants who are currently in Guatemala, according to a UN spokesperson. UNIFEED