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Marking this year’s United Nations Day, the world body’s top officials in Somalia today flagged some of the support being provided to and challenges faced in assisting Somalis on their path to peace and stability, while also re-affirming their commitment in line with the organization’s founding principles. UNSOM

UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said humanitarian access to northern Ethiopia “remains challenging,” and noted that avoiding violence in the country would require “all those involved to engage in a political dialogue instead of a weapons dialogue.” UNIFEED

The combined impacts of drought, conflict, the COVID-19 pandemic, and an economic crisis in in Afghanistan, have left more than half of the country’s population – a record 22.8 million people – facing acute hunger. UNTV CH

A UN humanitarian flight bound for embattled Ethiopia’s Tigray region that departed Addis Ababa this morning was forced to turn back in the midst of its flight, following the airstrikes on Mekele, the Tigray’s regional capital, according to the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarians Affairs (OCHA). UNIFEED

Former Afghan women politicians asked the international community on Thursday to pressure the Taliban “to put their words in action” and fulfill their promises made in 2019 in Qatar including girls’ education and women’s rights. UNIFEED

Afghanistan’s economy is imploding, with all but three per cent of households expected to fall below the poverty line in coming months, the UN said on Thursday. To help ordinary Afghans, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) has announced the launch of a “people’s economy” fund, to provide desperately needed access to cash. UNTV CH

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said another shameful milestone has been reached in the conflict in Yemen with 10,000 children killed or maimed since fighting started in March 2015. UNTV CH

The spokesperson for the Secretary-General, Stéphane Dujarric said, “alarming reports” from Ethiopia indicate that aerial attacks took place this morning in the residential areas of Tigray’s capital Mekelle. UNIFEED

UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen described the first meeting between the two Co-chairs of the Small Body of the Syrian Constitutional Committee as “serious and frank” and hoped to continue meetings over the next week in the “same spirit.” UNTV CH

Upon his return from Afghanistan, UNICEF Deputy Executive Director, Omar Abdi told journalists in New York that the country’s children, “those least responsible” for the current crisis “are paying the highest price.” UNIFEED