In a global food program alert (Wfp), the agency said This half-million people “are on the brink of famine”, a complaint supported by several humanitarian agencies. The latest disturbing data show generalized acute malnutrition.
A ceasefire is the only way to expand aid deliveries, insisted the United Nations Agency. He explained that although the teams do everything that can provide food assistance, only 47% of the daily target amount between.
No meal, no bread
Unless fighting stops, organized aid distributions and hot meals and bakeries supported by WFP cannot restart, said the agency.
The United Nations Agency for Palestine Refugees, UNRWAreported on Monday that instead of being able to prepare for the start of a new school year, children in Gaza are more looking for water and the queue for food while their classrooms have “transformed into overcrowded shelters”.
Three years of schooling are now lost, the agency has stressed in a tweet.
The UN chief expresses the “deep sadness” on the sudden fatal floods in India and Pakistan
UN Secretary General António Guterres Monday expressed his Deep sadness with tragic loss of life due to the sudden floods in India and Pakistan in recent days, many missing and forecasts showing the possibility of floods and landslides to come.
Indian Rescue Services responded to a deadly flood on Friday which would have killed at least 60 years after he crashed in a village in Himalayas while he was in distant villages in northwestern Pakistan, water torrents killed more than 300, according to information.
Hundreds were also injured, the Pakistani authorities reported. The Biner district was the worst blow, with more than 200 deaths reported there, said provincial disaster management authorities.
Solidarity
“The secretary general offers his sincere condolences to the families of the victims and joined the people affected by this disaster,” said the statement published by his spokesperson.
Teams of United Nations countries in India and Pakistan have also been placed are available to the authorities, although no request for assistance has been made so far.
The impacts of the drought of Somalia aggravate by the financing cuts: OCHA
In Somalia, serious drought and funding reductions compromise vital assistance, the United Nations coordination office, Ochha,, said Monday.
Due to the reduction in the quantity of support for assistance work, food aid has decreased, health centers close and malnutrition is high, warned the United Nations.
OCHA said 4.6 million people are now facing high levels of food insecure while two million more are threatened by financing cuts.
Funding cuts mean “lost lives”
Without support on the scale, “lives will be lost and reverse progress” throughout the East African nation, where cash deficits have left a million people without food aid each month.
The global trend by seeing less humanitarian assistance has reduced vital support to health care across Somalia. So far this year, it has had an impact on at least 150 medical establishments and has left hundreds of thousands of Somalians without the medical care they need.
OCHA noted that due to the cuts, the number of people targeted for Somalia aid had to be reduced by 72% narcotic.
Originally published at Almouwatin.com
