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About half of the donation from Japan, or US$47 million, will support WFP’s operations in 23 African countries, particularly in response to slow-onset crises in Malawi, Lesotho and Swaziland, where the El Niño phenomenon has severely affected the food security of millions of people.

Secretary-General António Guterres.

Switzerland – The Director-General of the International Organization for Migration William Lacy Swing, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein and the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Libya Martin Kobler, on February 10, met in Geneva to underscore the need for a comprehensive approach to address the situation of migrants and refugees in Libya as well as to assist the hundreds of thousands of Libyans displaced and impacted by the crisis.

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, on February 10, welcomed renewed commitments taken at this week’s Senior Officials’ Meeting on migration in Valletta, Malta, and called for the full inclusion of refugees in all migration-related EU actions.

The European Court of Auditors (ECA) is to undertake an audit of EU-wide measures against air pollution, the first details of which were announced on Feb 10. Air pollution is the single biggest environmental health risk in Europe. It causes an estimated 450,000 premature deaths every year through respiratory and other diseases. It also has considerable economic and environmental impacts,from increased medical costs and reduce productivity to damage vegetation and ecosystems. The European Union is spending more than €2 billion to compbat air pollution.

South Sudanese refugees get off the truck at Palorinya settlements in Uganda where each family will be given a piece of land for shelter.

Students conducting a research at a university laboratory in Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.

Luxembourg and WFP have a long-standing partnership deploying together in emergency response. Following the devastating 2015 earthquake in Nepal, Luxembourg deployed its rapid communications kit in support of the WFP-led Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (ETC).

Joint UN assessment has found that more than seven million people in Yemen are in need of emergency food assistance.