Damages to the water network and power cuts left an additional 4.6 million people across Ukraine without adequate access to clean water (Lviv, 15 April 2022): More than seven weeks of intense...
Press releases and statements
Press releases and statements
Ukraine
News and Press Release1.4 million people without running water across war-affected eastern Ukraine (15 April 2022)
Ukraine
News and Press ReleaseStatement by the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Martin Griffiths, 14 April 2022 [EN/RU/UK]
I am deeply saddened by the deaths of at least two aid workers who were killed, together with five of their relatives, during an attack that hit the office of the non-governmental organization...
Cameroon + 2 more
News and Press ReleaseThe 2022 Humanitarian Response Plan requires US$ 376 million to support people in need of humanitarian assistance in Cameroon
About 2.4 million people are in crisis or emergency phases of food insecurity; 500,000 children are out of school; almost two million people are displaced and the country hosts 470,000 refugees.
Yemen + 6 more
News and Press ReleaseUN to spend $100 million to fight hunger as Ukraine conflict disrupts food markets
Relief projects in six African countries and Yemen will receive support as the spillover effects of the Ukrainian conflict threaten to drive millions even closer to famine.
Somalia
News and Press ReleaseJoint FAO-OCHA-UNICEF-WFP Statement on the Drought Emergency in Somalia
"This is a year of unprecedented humanitarian needs and hunger but I implore the world not to turn its back on Somalia or wait until it’s too late. Millions of lives are at stake" - El-Khidir Daloum.
Nigeria
News and Press ReleaseUS$351 million urgently needed for Food Security & Nutrition in North-east Nigeria
Abuja, 11 April 2022 - US$351 million is urgently needed by the UN and partners to intervene and save lives in North-East Nigeria as underlined by the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office...
Ukraine
News and Press ReleaseHumanitarian supply convoy reaches Sievierodonetsk: UN and partners
(Dnipro, 5 April 2022): Today, the United Nations and humanitarian partners delivered eight trucks of critical supplies for people in the city of Sievierodonetsk in eastern Ukraine’s Luhanska oblast...
Yemen
News and Press ReleaseHumanitarian Coordinator for Yemen welcomes nationwide truce [EN/AR]
Sana’a, 4 April 2022 – The humanitarian community in Yemen has welcomed the commitment by the parties to the conflict to the UN-brokered two-month truce in Yemen. If effectively implemented, the...
Ukraine
News and Press ReleaseStatement by the Humanitarian Coordinator in Ukraine, Osnat Lubrani (31 March 2022)
(Dnipro, 31 March 2022): Today the United Nations and humanitarian partners have delivered supplies for thousands of people in the encircled city of Sumy, including children and hospital patients,...
South Sudan
News and Press ReleaseUrgent funding needed to address the humanitarian needs of 6.8 million people in South Sudan in 2022
An estimated 8.3 million people, including refugees, are set to experience severe food insecurity by the peak of the lean season from May-July. Severe flooding for a fourth year in a row is expected.