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The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, visited Ethiopia to meet with displaced communities. He emphasized the need for long-term solutions and further support for reconstruction and recovery efforts in the face of conflict and climate change. UNHCR

With mounting challenges affecting the country, the Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for the Syria Crisis, Muhannad Hadi, said the earthquake that affected at least 10 million people “is the last thing the Syrian people needed.” UNIFEED

The full scale of the double earthquake disaster in Türkiye and Syria is still unfolding, UN humanitarians said on Tuesday, as they stressed the critical need to step up search and rescue efforts for victims and ensure that lifesaving aid reaches all those who need it. UNTV CH

Secretary-General António Guterres said today that “the United Nations is mobilizing to support the emergency response” after the earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria. UNIFEED

The World Health Organization (WHO) released a new Global Breast Cancer Initiative Framework providing a roadmap to attain the targets to save 2.5 million lives from breast cancer by 2040. WHO

Over the past 11 months, 30 United Nations inter-agency convoys have delivered crucial aid supply to the most vulnerable people in acute need across Ukraine. While several trucks reached areas close to the frontlines, the lack of safe access to Russian-held zones in Ukraine has prevented aid deliveries to the population there. UNTV CH

The United Nations and humanitarian partners launched an appeal for $751 million “to meet the urgent needs of 5.7 million people, over half of whom are women and children” in Mali, a UN spokesperson said. UNIFEED

Updating reporters today on the situation in Ukraine, a UN spokesperson said, “the fierce fighting continues in the eastern Donetsk region, with civilians being killed and injured on both sides of the front line.” UNIFEED

Commenting on guidelines expected to be issued by Taliban authorities to allow women to work in humanitarian operations in Afghanistan, the United Nations top humanitarian official said “Let’s see if these guidelines do come through. Let's see if they are beneficial. Let's see what space there is for the essential and central role of women in our humanitarian operations.” UNIFEED

The World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General said today that COVID-19 remains a global health emergency, even though, as the world enters the fourth year of the pandemic, “there is no doubt we are in a far better situation now than we were a year ago, when the Omicron wave was at its peak.” WHO