In Nepal, over 500 people have been confirmed dead due to mass flooding, hundreds remain missing and over 3,700 have so far been rescued. Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Tom Fletcher said the UN and its aid partners are moving at speed, helping national authorities to deliver urgent, life-saving support.
In Ukraine, at least three drone strikes in the last week hit humanitarian vehicles in the city of Kherson, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports. Two incidents involved the same local non-governmental organization, while another impacted a different organization delivering food.
In Afghanistan, a humanitarian operation to deliver assistance to previously inaccessible areas of eastern Nuristan Province was launched today, coordinated by the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Afghan Red Crescent Society, and supported by the UN, serving 136,000 people in Kamdesh and Barg-e-Matal.
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced today the appointment of Rania A. al-Mashat of Egypt as the next Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA).
Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message to the eleventh Summit of the Heads of State and Government of the Organization of African, Caribbean and Pacific States, in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, today:
Typhoons in South and South-East Asia have had a devastating impact on children’s education. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reports that since late November, more than 4.1 million children in Viet Nam, Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia have had their education disrupted due to climate-related disasters.
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General António Guterres:
In Mozambique, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is gravely concerned about intensifying attacks on villages and the rapid spillover into districts considered safe, with nearly 100,000 people displaced in the past fortnight alone. The violence, which began in Cabo Delgado in 2017, has displaced over 1.3 million people.
A new report from the UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women), titled “At Risk and Underfunded”, warns that sweeping aid cuts are jeopardizing the organizations essential to ending violence against women and girls.
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks to the fifteenth Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)-United Nations Summit, held in Kuala Lumpur today:
