UN releases $100m to support Yemen and other underfunded crises

A Yemeni child suffering from malnutrition is seen on his mother’s lap while being treated with limited facilities at the Malnutrition Prevention Department of Sabeen Hospital in Sanaa, Yemen on July 31, 2023. [Mohammed Hamoud – Anadolu Agency]

The United Nations has released $100 million to support ten underfunded humanitarian crises in Africa, the Americas, Asia and the Middle East, the international body said today, Reuters reports.

More than a third of this funding will go to aid operations in Yemen ($20 million) and Ethiopia ($15 million), where people are grappling with hunger, displacement, diseases and climate disasters, a spokesperson said during a regular briefing.

Other countries that will benefit from the funding include Myanmar ($12 million), Mali ($11 million), Burkina Faso ($10 million), Haiti ($9 million), Cameroon ($7 million) and Mozambique ($7 million), as well as El Nino-affected Burundi ($5 million) and Malawi ($4 million).

“We urgently need increased and sustained donor attention to these underfunded crises,” said UN humanitarian agency OCHA official Joyce Msuya.

Millions of people live in hopeless protracted crises year after year.

This $100 million @UNCERF allocation aims to alleviate some of the suffering of those caught up in conflict, displacement, & climate emergencies.

I urge donors to keep their eyes on these underfunded crises.

— Joyce Msuya (@JoyceMsuya) August 30, 2024

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