Urgent Action Needed to Tackle Food Insecurity: UN Agency - Tasnim News Agency

Conflict, extreme weather and economic shocks increased the number of people facing food crises by a fifth to 193 million last year and the outlook will worsen without urgent action "on a massive scale", a humanitarian agency said on Tuesday .

UN seeks record $5 bln in aid for Afghanistan in 2022 • FRANCE 24

 

-- 

Tigrayan refugees in Sudan suffering malnutrition

 

 --

Forced displacement reaches new high amid COVID: UN | Al Jazeera

The number of people forcibly displaced reached a new high by the end of 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated some pre-existing drivers, a United Nations report has found.

Niger: A Game Changer to Ensure Food Security

 

-- 

UN sounds alarm over dangerous famine threat in Madagascar

 

 --

North Korea border shutdown raises food security concerns at U.N. - UPI.com | EL ETOS UT

North Korea's closure of its borders at the start of the coronavirus pandemic has had an adverse impact on the food supply, U.N. agencies say.

UN: 1.25 Million Somali Children Face Acute Malnourishment after Floods

The UN Children's Agency (UNICEF) said more than 1.25 million children are expected to be acutely malnourished this year because of flooding in Somalia.

UN says Australia has duty to take care of asylum seekers in PNG

The UN human rights office called on Australia Friday to restore food, water and health services to some 600 interned refugees and asylum seekers in Papua New Guinea, Reuters reports.

World hunger on rise again due to conflicts, climate change in decade: UN report

Global hunger is on the rise again after steadily declining for more than a decade, affecting nearly 11 percent of the global population, largely due to conflicts and climate change, a UN report claimed on Friday.

Russian military delivers humanitarian aid to some 3,800 Syrians over past 24 hours

Russian military servicemen were involved in eight humanitarian missions in war-torn Syria’s Aleppo, as well as in provinces of Latakia and Damascus, providing with aid up to 3,800 civilians over the past 24 hours, the Russian Center of the Reconciliation of the Warring Sides in Syria reported on Monday.

Death toll from alcohol poisoning in Ukraine reaches 38 . Several people, who survived the poisoning, became blind

The number of deaths caused by a batch of spurious alcohol circulating across Ukraine rose to 38, the State Service for Food Safety and Consumer Protection said Friday.

UN delivers aid to besieged people in N. Iraq

The World Food Program (WFP) has delivered food for more than 30,000 people in and around the northern Iraqi town of Qayyarah which was under siege over the last two years, said a UN spokesperson on Tuesday.

Yemen faces dire humanitarian situation: UN official

The UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen, Jamie McGoldrick, said Thursday that Yemen is one of the more invisible crises in the region and in the world right now, given the dire humanitarian situation people face there on a daily basis, a UN spokesman told reporters.

Desperate farm families in eastern Ukraine forced into ‘difficult choices’ to survive – (UN agency)

UN, 7 December 2015 – The absence of financial, physical, social and human resources has left some 700,000 farm households extremely vulnerable in conflict-torn eastern Ukraine, the results of a United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) household survey revealed today, and also warned of food insecurity among those families due to “skyrocketing” commodity prices.

Yemen: 3.3 million people in need of critical aid in besieged Taiz, warns UN health agency

UN,  21 October 2015 – The top United Nations health official in Yemen is appealing for unrestricted access to Taiz, where “innocent lives are at risk” in the besieged highland city where more than 3.3 million people are in critical need of health assistance, safe drinking water, food and fuel.

Refugee protests lead to revised food menus in Finland (the Nordic diet)

Food has become an issue in some refugee accommodations in Finland. Asylum seekers not used to the Nordic diet have protested for allegedly bad quality food served in temporary accommodations.