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Urgent and timely scaling up of humanitarian assistance is required to prevent extreme food security and nutrition outcomes, including the risk of famine between now and June 2022.

Of the current total of 103 attacks, 89 have impacted health facilities and 13 have impacted transport, including ambulances. The attacks so far have claimed 73 lives and injured 51.

The ripple effect of the war in Ukraine is compounding the impacts of two long years of COVID-19 on economies, employment and poverty in the MENA region, where more than 90% of food is imported.

Just weeks after devastating floodwaters finally receded, rains have begun again, with dire humanitarian consequences expected. About 8.3 million people are set to experience severe food insecurity.

Since the early hours of 6 April, fighting has resumed between the Congolese army and suspected M23 fighters. Humanitarian partners hope to distribute the aid as soon as the security situation permits.

As people attempt the dangerous journey west, pressure will mount on the already fragile systems and infrastructure in cities hosting growing populations. The IRC is calling for an immediate ceasefire.

Over the last year, MSF has seen various health facilities downscale activities or close after losing funding. In addition, hundreds of medical facilities have been damaged or destroyed.

With 14 million people currently in need of urgent food assistance - a number that is expected to reach 20 million this year - IFRC has launched emergency appeals for a total of CHF 39 million.

Civilians accounted for 59% of casualties, with 11,102 deaths and injuries, marking 2021 as the first year since 2015 that a rise in civilian casualties was recorded.

This number could rise to 38 million this June - a new historic level and already an increase by more than a third over last year - unless urgent action is taken, warns Oxfam.

The funds will strengthen the foundations of the country’s social protection system, help extremely poor households access safety net services, and accelerate Yemen’s response to COVID-19.

In 2010-19, annual global greenhouse gas emissions were at their highest levels, but the growth rate has slowed. Without immediate emissions cuts, limiting global warming to 1.5°C is beyond reach.

The agency aims to reach more than three million people in Ukraine with food and cash distributions, as well as 300,000 who have left the country. Access is a critical challenge, however.

Since January, the ICRC and Nigerian Red Cross have been providing sleeping mats, buckets and blankets to nearly 20,000 people across northeast Nigeria, including 4,170 in Gwoza this month alone.

Many people affected by the conflict in Tigray live in extremely challenging conditions, unable to access healthcare, sufficient food supplies, and basic goods and services.

ICRC team that had been on its way to Mariupol on Friday to facilitate the safe passage of civilians had to return to Zaporizhzhia after arrangements and conditions made it impossible to proceed.

UNHCR, Government of Uganda and humanitarian partners are assisting some 10,000 refugees in Kisoro district after they fled violent clashes in DRC, which began on 28 March 2022.

"The speed of the displacement, coupled with the huge numbers of people affected, is unprecedented in Europe in recent memory," said UN refugee chief, concluding the visit.

As Ramadan begins, the soaring cost of food in import-dependent Middle Eastern and North African countries is creating challenges for millions of families already struggling to keep hunger at bay.

The IRC has committed $2.5 million to providing critical services to people in Ethiopia alone living through this severe drought, but much more needs to be done in order to meet the scale of need.