UN releases $100 million to support 10 underfunded crises

Above, an area in the Hays region south of Yemen’s Hodeidah province that was hit by recent heavy flooding on Aug. 28, 2024. Yemen has been embroiled in years of civil war that has killed tens of thousands of people and left millions hungry. (AFP)

• More than a third of this funding will go to aid operations in Yemen and Ethiopia

BERLIN: The United Nations has released $100 million to support 10 underfunded humanitarian crises in Africa, the Americas, Asia and the Middle East, the UN said on Friday.
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.