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UNITED NATIONS, Jun 5 (NNN-IRIN) – The United Nations and humanitarian partners yesterday launched a 617-million U.S. dollar relief plan, to help feed nearly one-third of the population in Chad.

Some 5.5 million people need humanitarian assistance this year, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said. The 2021 Humanitarian Response Plan seeks to aid four million people among them.

In Chad, 66.2 percent of its population of 15.5 million live in severe poverty, the World Food Programme said.

04 June 2021; MEMO: The US ambassador to the UN has said that Turkey's Cilvegozu border crossing is the "best" option for international NGOs to get aid into Syria, TRT World has reported.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. humanitarian chief warned Friday that famine is imminent in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region and the country’s north and there is a risk that hundreds of thousands of people or more will die.

Mark Lowcock said the economy has been destroyed along with businesses, crops and farms and there are no banking or telecommunications services.

“We are hearing of starvation-related deaths already,” he said in a statement.

UNITED NATIONS, Jun 04 (APP): A new United Nations report on Afghanistan highlights the continued and ever-growing cross-border terrorist threat posed by proscribed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), which according to the report, continues to operate from the eastern Nangarhar province of neighbouring country.

The 12th report of the UN monitoring team on Afghanistan submitted to the UN Security Council also notes TTP’s “distinctive anti-Pakistan objectives”.

UNITED NATIONS, June 3 (Xinhua) -- United Nations Security Council on Thursday extended the mandate of the UN Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS) for one year, until June 3, 2022.

Resolution 2579, adopted unanimously, retains the four strategic objectives for UNITAMS outlined in Resolution 2524, which established the mission on June 3, 2020.

(AP) --- Facebook plans to end a contentious policy championed by CEO Mark Zuckerberg that exempted politicians from certain moderation rules on its site, according to several news reports.

UNITED NATIONS, Jun 01 (APP): The President of United Nations General Assembly, Volkan Bozkir, has expressed regrets that India took his recent remarks on Jammu and Kashmir out of context, saying they were consistent with the long-standing UN position regarding the decades-old dispute.

UNITED NATIONS, June 1 (Xinhua) -- The world must harness "clear, transformative and actionable solutions" to address the ocean crisis, the president of the UN General Assembly (UNGA), or the PGA, said on Tuesday, opening a meeting to generate momentum towards the 2022 UN Ocean Conference, when public health safety measures allow.

"Simply speaking, our relationship with our planet's ocean must change," Volkan Bozkir told a high-level thematic debate on the ocean and Sustainable Development Goal 14 (SDG14): Life Below Water.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.S ambassador to the United Nations headed to Turkey late Tuesday seeking to ensure that humanitarian aid can be delivered to Syria across borders, a program Russia has severely limited in recent years while insisting the Syrian government should control all assistance to millions in need.

NEW YORK, May 31 (Xinhua) -- China has sped up its vaccination drive since the start of this year, which could "accelerate" Asia's recovery from COVID-19, the Wall Street Journal recently wrote.

China's vaccination campaign is "roaring into action," comprising roughly half of the doses being distributed daily around the world, according to the Journal.

"Faster Chinese vaccination could accelerate the return of sorely needed tourism to the battered economies of Southeast Asia," such as Thailand, which relies largely on Chinese tourists, said the article.