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UN Secretary-General António Guterres said, “As we look to priorities for this year, a rights-rooted approach is central to achieving our ultimate priority: a safer, more peaceful, more sustainable world.” UNIFEED

UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed told the Security Council, “The world is facing the highest number of violent conflicts since the Second World War. Two billion people, one quarter of humanity, live in places affected by conflict”. UNIFEED

Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva, concluded on Tuesday her visit to Zambia, where she met with students at the University of Zambia in Lusaka as well as opening an IMF office in the African country’s capital. IMF

Under the Rapid Rural Transformation (RRT) initiative, WFP and partners establish solar-powered hubs to provide essential services to the communities in Madagascar, in an environmentally responsible and sustainable manner. UNTV CH / WFP

Actor Idris Elba tells world leaders that poor farmers need investment not handouts at award ceremony in Davos. IFAD

According to a new UN report, a child or youth died once every 4.4 seconds in 2021. UNICEF

The UN peacekeeping mission in Abyei (UNISFA) responded rapidly to quell violence in the village of Rumamer, in the southern part of Abyei, after an attack that took place today and resulted in 13 people being killed, a UN Spokesperson informed. UNIFEED

The Jewish Cemetery of Fez, Morocco, is a testament of the country’s peaceful interreligious cohabitation. UNIFEED

From the war in Ukraine to the response in health crisis and providing life-saving humanitarian aid, the work of the United Nations remained vital in a year marked by multiple overlapping crises. UNIFEED

Destroyed in August 2021 by armed terrorist groups, the Songho and Yawakanda bridges have been rehabilitated as part of an extensive project funded by the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali. MINUSMA