Excerpt Food price hikes in Malawi Tomson Phiri, for the World Food Program (WFP), said soaring food prices were being seen in Malawi which had started to push the poor onto the brink of hunger,...
(excerpts) Ukraine Quick humanitarian update for you on Ukraine: Our colleagues on the ground telling us that they remain concerned about the impact on civilians by the reported fierce fighting in...
(excerpts) Afghanistan - COVID-19 Quick update on COVID-19 on what our team in Afghanistan is doing, led by the Resident Coordinator, Ramiz Alakbarov. The UN team has been helping the health sector...
(excerpts) Maldives — COVID-19 A quick update from the Maldives where our UN team, led by Resident Coordinator Catherine Haswell, is doing to help authorities tackle the multiple impacts of COVID-19...
SECRETARY-GENERAL/UKRAINE The Secretary-General is deeply concerned by the continuing attacks on Ukrainian cities across the country, including most recently Lviv, Dnipro, Kharkiv and Mykolaiv, which...
(excerpts) Ethiopia And staying in the Horn of Africa, on Ethiopia, I can tell you that we and our humanitarian partners have not been able to move any further aid into Tigray by road since the...
(excerpts) Mali Turning to Mali, the UN peacekeeping mission in the country — MINUSMA — has launched an investigation following reports that civilians were killed during clashes last week between the...
excerpts Ethiopia We have some more good news coming from Ethiopia this morning. A convoy transporting 500 metric tons of food and nutrition supplies was moving into Tigray. This is the first time...
excerpts Climate As you may have seen this morning, the Secretary-General delivered, via video message, the keynote speech at the Economist’s Sustainability Summit. His addressed focused on “Keeping...
(excerpt) IRAQ I had been asked about the Sunday missile attack in Erbil, in Iraq. I can say that the Secretary-General is deeply concerned about the missile attack in Erbil. The attack comes at a...