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With more than eight million people now dependent on food assistance for survival in Yemen, the fate of those caught up in the country’s long running conflict is now in the hands of a small number of donor governments. Nearly 80 percent of United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) funding for Yemen this year has been provided by the United States, Germany, the European Union, and the United Kingdom, with the US providing the largest single amount (US$386 million).

Panels in the General Assembly Hall showing the final count for the resolution on ‘the status of Jerusalem, during the resumed 10th Emergency Special Session on Illegal Israeli actions in Occupied East Jerusalem and the rest of the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

Secretary-General António Guterres delivers the keynote speech during closing ceremony of ICTY at The Hague.

Eastern Ukraine is now one of the most mine-contaminated places on earth, endangering 220,000 children who live, play and go to and from school in areas littered with landmines, unexploded ordnance and other deadly explosive remnants of war, UNICEF warned on Dec 21.

The scale of destruction in Aleppo is massive and heavy equipment is urgently needed to remove debris.

A UNICEF-chartered plane landed in Sana’a, delivering nearly 6 million doses of essential vaccines to protect millions of children at risk of preventable diseases.

French pop artist Christine, of Christine and the Queens, chats with Imani, a refugee from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, at Rmawanja refugee settlement in Uganda.

"It is our duty to make every effort to mitigate the consequences of natural disasters for affected populations", said Michèle Rivasi, Co-President of the ACP-EU JPA.

Against a backdrop of intense human suffering, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) are joining forces to mitigate some of the effects of conflict in Greater Kasai. The two United Nations agencies will be using US$10 million in Belgian government funding to improve access to food for more than 100,000 people. Some 18,000 households – whether displaced, returnee or host families – stand to benefit.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has welcomed a contribution of €4.4 million (US$5.2 million) from the Government of Germany, which will provide cash-based assistance to almost a quarter of a million Iraqis for one month.