A new $2.6 million initiative in Tunisia, funded by the Secretary-General’s Peacebuilding Fund, will promote inclusive and participatory local water management over the next two years in the regions of Gafsa and Kairouan, which are heavily affected by climate change-induced water scarcity.
In Haiti, the UN’s humanitarian country team is sounding the alarm about the need for enhanced preparedness ahead of the Atlantic hurricane season. Amid severe funding shortfalls, contingency stocks are at their lowest levels ever, as 5.7 million people face severe food insecurity.
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres appointed Rana Taha of Jordan as the United Nations Resident Coordinator in Tunisia, with the host Government’s approval, effective 19 June.
The new Permanent Representative of Tunisia to the United Nations, Nabil Ammar, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General António Guterres today.
In Somalia, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports that the risk of famine still lingers among communities of displaced people in parts of the country. This is despite the scale-up of humanitarian assistance and better-than-forecast rains which have brought some relief from the devastating drought.
The United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) have provided support to the Central African and Ugandan Governments as they carried out the voluntary repatriation of 61 Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) ex-combatants and their families to Entebbe, Uganda.
In Tunisia, the third of nine commercial vessels from Ukraine arrived over the weekend, through the Black Sea Grain Initiative, bringing more than 78,000 tons of soft wheat to the country. A fourth vessel is scheduled to land today in Tunis, with 30,000 tons of corn.
The High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, today urged the President of Tunisia, Kaïs Saïed, to restore the High Judicial Council, warning that its dissolution would seriously undermine the rule of law, the separation of powers and independence of the judiciary in the country.
More than half of Afghanistan’s population — some 22.8 million people — will face acute food insecurity starting November, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) warned today, including 3.2 million children under the age of five, who are expected to suffer acute malnutrition by the end of 2021.
The World Food Programme (WFP) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have launched a new project to improve emergency response to health crises. The project, called INITIATE², will develop solutions such as disease-specific field facilities and kits and train logistics and health responders on their use.
