Burundi

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) called for urgent funding to scale up life-saving aid in Burundi. The country is under intensifying humanitarian pressure as it hosts over 90,000 refugees who have escaped conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo over the past three months.

In Ukraine, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs says a wave of attacks has severely disrupted critical services across the country, aggravating humanitarian needs amid harsh winter conditions. Between 18 December and today, authorities report several fatalities, with more than 30 injured nationwide.

In Burundi, the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator has allocated $2.5 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund to provide life-saving assistance to over 63,000 people, including water and hygiene kits, latrines, health support and cash, affected by severe flooding and landslides across the country.

In Nigeria, the UN, its humanitarian assistance partners and the Government have launched a $306 million appeal to support 2.8 million people in the country’s north-east — comprising the states of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe — where some 4.8 million people are facing food insecurity, the highest level in seven years.

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General António Guterres:

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has appointed Violet Kakyomya of Uganda as the United Nations Resident Coordinator in Burundi, with the host Government’s approval, starting today.

On Friday, 5 May, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres arrived in Bujumbura, Burundi, from Kenya, to take part in the eleventh high-level meeting of the Regional Oversight Mechanism of the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the region.

In Nigeria, where severe hunger will affect an estimated 4.3 million people in conflict-affected areas between June and August, the World Food Programme is increasing emergency food and nutrition aid and the United Nations Children’s Fund is giving therapeutic treatment to severely wasted children.

The United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic, in its ongoing support to the Government and the national disarmament, demobilization, reintegration and repatriation process, recently donated vehicles and office equipment to help build the third mobile team conducting disarmament and demobilization operations.

The UN refugee agency (UNHCR), together with 41 international and national partners, launched today the 2023 funding appeal for over $500 million to provide life-saving assistance to more than 900,000 refugees in Sudan, the second-largest asylum country in Africa.