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As humanitarian needs continue to rise around the world, the United Nations and partners launch on 2 December the Global Humanitarian Overview, their annual assessment and plan for how to alleviate the suffering in 2022. OCHA / FILE

Securing the funding needed for sustainable development by involving as many actors from different sectors is more urgent than ever, amid a widening “trust deficit” between the haves and the have-nots, the UN Deputy Secretary-General said on Monday. UNTV CH

UNHCR expressed concern over the difficult living conditions of indigenous Warao families from Venezuela who are settled in remote locations across Guyana. UNHCR

The number of people in need of humanitarian food assistance across northern Ethiopia has spiked as a direct result of ongoing conflict, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday. UNTV CH

Tens of thousands of refugees and host communities are displaced by flooding in Sudan. UNHCR and partners are providing emergency assistance but more support is urgently needed. UNHCR

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said Afghanistan was already one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a child. Over the past year, the situation has become even more desperate as conflict, drought, and COVID-19 have collided to create a humanitarian emergency. UNICEF

As the Afghan people confront widespread drought, rural dislocation and economic upheaval, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is providing critical life-saving assistance to farmers and herders, but also urging far greater support for agricultural production to feed the Afghan people. FAO

The head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) Deborah Lyons told the Security Council, “our tension now must turn to the vastly greater number of Afghans who remain in the country, but face in the short term the most dire future,” adding that “we are on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe that is preventable.” UNIFEED

The School Meals Coalition was launched to support governments and their partners to improve or restore national, sustainable school meal programmes, and strive for every child to have the opportunity to receive a healthy, nutritious meal in school by 2030. UNIFEED

Humanitarians in Afghanistan warned that “one in four pregnant women and one in two children are malnourished in the country, and half of all people do not know where their next meal is coming from,” according to a UN spokesperson. UNIFEED