The rapid devaluation of the Rial has driven prices for basic commodities up sharply in the past four weeks, with the cost of a minimum family food basket increasing 11%.
Press releases and statements
The UN Under-Secretary-General, Martin Griffith takes questions from the press in Kahramanmaraş, Turkey, after the devastating earthquake in February 2023.
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Yemen
News and Press ReleaseThe currency crisis in Yemen is driving millions of people one step closer to famine [EN/AR]
Nigeria + 1 more
News and Press ReleaseMedia Advisory: UNDP Administrator Achim Steiner and Humanitarian Chief Mark Lowcock to Visit Nigeria and Chad
WHO: Achim Steiner, United Nations Development Programme Administrator, and Mark Lowcock, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator WHAT: Joint mission to...
Indonesia
News and Press Release$15 million for Indonesia’s efforts to support earthquake and tsunami victims in Sulawesi
CERF funds will support UN agencies already on the ground to help respond to key priorities identified by the Government and assist the tens of thousands of people in need.
Sudan
News and Press ReleaseStatement by the United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan, Ms. Gwi-Yeop Son, on access to South Kordofan and Blue Nile, 2 October 2018 [EN/AR]
Khartoum, 2 October 2018. The United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan, Ms. Gwi-Yeop Son, welcomes the decision by the Government of Sudan to facilitate the United Nation’s...
Sudan
News and Press ReleaseStatement by Ms. Gwi-Yeop Son, the United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan, on SLA-AW’s ceasefire and access to a landslide-affected area in East Jebel Marra [EN/AR]
Khartoum, 2 October 2018. The United Nations Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator (RC/HC) in Sudan, Gwi-Yeop Son, welcomed a three-month unilateral cessation of hostilities by the Sudan...
World + 11 more
News and Press ReleaseSupport for underfunded crises from UN Emergency Fund
(New York, 1 October 2018): The Emergency Relief Coordinator (ERC) has finalised allocations totalling $80 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) for humanitarian response to some of...
Ukraine
News and Press ReleaseStatement by the Humanitarian Coordinator on the tragic deaths of three children in eastern Ukraine [EN/RU/UK]
(KYIV, 1 October 2018) – The Humanitarian Coordinator in Ukraine, Ms. Osnat Lubrani expresses her sincere condolences to the family of three children killed, and one child injured, by explosive...
oPt
News and Press ReleaseStatement by the Humanitarian Coordinator for the occupied Palestinian territory, Mr. Jamie McGoldrick, on Palestinian casualties in the Gaza Strip
I am deeply saddened by reports that seven Palestinians, including two children, were killed, and hundreds of others injured, by Israeli forces during demonstrations in the Gaza Strip yesterday. This...
Myanmar + 1 more
News and Press ReleaseStatement by Assistant-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator, Ursula Mueller, at High-Level Event on the Issue of the Rohingya Minority of Myanmar
UN Headquarters, New York, 27 September 2018 As delivered Mr. Secretary General, Commissioner Stylianides, distinguished panellists, excellencies, ladies and gentlemen. The humanitarian challenges we...
World + 3 more
News and Press ReleaseUN Secretary-General calls for increased funding for CERF to promote early humanitarian action
(New York, 26 September 2018): Today, during the UN General Assembly High-Level side event on the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF), UN Secretary-General, Mr. António Guterres, delivered an...