The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs is concerned about flooding in West and Central Africa that, just two months into the rainy season, has impacted over 700,000 people. The Central Emergency Response Fund allocated $10 million this year to Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Niger.
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The UN Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) reports that following negotiations it dismantled a militia camp set up by the CODECO armed group in a school in Fataki, in Ituri Province. Nearly 450 students that had been forced to relocate can now return to school for the upcoming year.
In Libya, the United Nations Mission there expressed its concern at the recent mobilization of forces in various parts of the country, particularly in the southern and western regions.
The World Health Organization (WHO) said today that the African region is experiencing an unprecedented increase in mpox cases since the start of 2024, with more countries previously unaffected by the disease reporting cases in an expanding spread of the virus.
In Myanmar, the World Food Programme has launched an emergency relief response for over 100,000 people impacted by ongoing floods. WFP teams are on the ground delivering cash, rice, special nutritious foods and fortified biscuits to at least 120,000 people in Bago, Kachin, Kayin, Magway and Sagaing.
Life-saving supplies in Port Sudan are ready to be loaded and dispatched to Zamzam camp in North Darfur, where famine conditions are present, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs’ Director of Operations told the Security Council today, stressing swift approvals and security assurances are crucial.
The Office of Internal Oversight Services has completed its investigation into the alleged involvement of 19 area staff members of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East in the 7 October 2023 armed attack in southern Israel. It found nine may have been involved and will terminate those individuals.
In Zimbabwe, 7.6 million people are at risk of acute hunger due to a historic El Niño-induced drought that has destroyed over half of the harvest. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and aid partners are supporting Government efforts to help affected communities and build long-term resilience.
Zamzam camp in North Darfur — which shelters over 220,000 displaced people — has now crossed the famine threshold, according to the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, or IPC, report on food security in Sudan. More than half the country’s population — 26 million people — now face acute hunger.
At least 53 Palestinian detainees are known to have died in Israeli military facilities and prisons since last October, according to a UN human rights office report published today on arbitrary, prolonged and incommunicado detentions, impacting thousands of Palestinians, including UN staff.