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A World Food Programme (WFP) spokesperson today told reporters “the humanitarian situation in Yemen is deteriorating at an alarming rate”, calling donors for an urgent appeal to fund its life-saving operations in the country. WFP needs USD 737 million to the end of the year to keep their humanitarian work ongoing. UNTV CH

“The pandemic shows us once again, albeit particularly painfully, how important it is for us to work together internationally,” German Chancellor Angela Merkel, said today as she and other global leaders addressed the ILO’s Virtual Global Summit on COVID-19 and the World of Work. ILO

South Sudan marks its 9th independence anniversary amidst calls for lasting peace as the government, the UNHCR and partners are racing against time to curb the spread of COVID-19. UNHCR

"The outbreak is accelerating, and we have clearly not reached the peak of the pandemic,” the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said during a press briefing on the COVID-19 pandemic on Tuesday in Geneva. WHO

Thousands of people fleeing murderous attacks in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo have crossed into neighbouring Uganda, the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, said on Tuesday. UNTV CH

Launching a new report on zoonotic diseases, the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Inger Andersen, said, “we were warned that the current pandemic was not a matter of if but when. And it is a human failing that we predict, but we do not prepare.” UNIFEED

Afghanistan has endured more than 40 years of conflict which have left 4.6 million people displaced today. UNHCR said it was working with the World Bank, other development and humanitarian partners, and neighbouring countries Pakistan and Iran to provide support for refugees, host communities, and the millions of people inside Afghanistan. UNHCR

Echoing Secretary-General Antonio Guterres call for a worldwide ceasefire to combat the coronavirus pandemic, the Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution demanding “a general and immediate cessation of hostilities in all situations, on its agenda.” UNIFEED

Behind the counter of her small convenience store in a rundown neighbourhood of Tripoli, north Lebanon, Kawkab keeps a list of debts owed to her by customers, including Syrian refugees and Lebanese citizens. In recent months, the list has grown so long she needs three separate notebooks to record all the entries. UNHCR

The progress made in testing COVID-19 samples at Somalia’s primary reference laboratory was hailed as critical to the Somali response to the coronavirus pandemic by the United Nations envoy to the country – and with an important role to play in its future. UNSOM