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UNICEF estimates that over 100,000 children in Tigray could suffer from life-threatening severe acute malnutrition (SAM) in the next 12 months – a tenfold increase compared to the average annual caseload. UNICEF

UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), in partnership with the Joint Verification and Monitoring Mechanism (JVMM) held a workshop in Juba to help communicate the principles, processes, roles and responsibilities in the new guidelines, which can ensure unfettered access to communities in need. UNMISS

United Nations spokesperson Florencia Soto Nino-Martinez said hundreds of thousands of people in Madagascar, “continue to suffer from one of the worst droughts the southern region of the country has faced in more than 40 years,” leaving “at least 1.31 million people—nearly two in every five people in the Grand Sud — severely food insecure.” UNIFEED

A UN spokesperson said, “despite recent improvements in access within Tigray since the end of June, movements in and out of the region remain restricted. This affects the ability of aid workers to replenish supplies and mobilize personnel to sustain aid operations.” UNIFEED

UN Deputy-Secretary-General Amina Mohammed told the Security Council the “hurricane of humanitarian crises” around the world is compounded by a “relentless wave of attacks on humanitarian and medical workers, and the imposition of ever narrower constraints on humanitarian space.” UNIFEED

Mexico’s Secretary of Foreign Affairs Marcelo Ebrard said, “we must make the utmost effort in conflict situations- but it is also true that humanitarian space and concerns are also linked to inequities” as well as to “the impact of sanctions imposed on countries creating crisis-like humanitarian situations, with a lot of human suffering.” UNIFEED

One third of Afghans are experiencing acute malnutrition, while half of the population in in humanitarian need, the UN top official in the country said on Thursday, calling for more funds to aid Afghanistan’s population. UNIFEED

The Security Council today unanimously adopted a resolution that allows for an extension of the Bab al-Hawa crossing for 12 months, “this is the first time since 2016, a united Security Council has acted on its humanitarian responsibilities in relation to Syria in this way,” said the Irish Ambassador Geraldine Byrne Nason. UNIFEED

“The Special Representative of the Secretary-General Helen La Lime continues to be in contact with Haitian leaders and other interlocutors stressing the urgent need to reach an inclusive political compromise to maintain stability and to chart the way forward for Haiti,” a UN spokesperson told reporters in New York. UNIFEED

With an escalating violent conflict, a COVID-19 pandemic that continues to spread and a natural disaster in a recently declared drought, the humanitarian needs in Afghanistan are unfolding in the context of one of the largest and longest-standing humanitarian emergencies, the World Health Organization said. UNTV CH