A UN humanitarian official visiting northwest Syria on Tuesday urged the international community to fund crucial aid programs in the war-torn country ahead of an upcoming pledging conference in Brussels. The Idlib region, Syria's last main bastion of armed opposition, hosts about three million people, many of whom are displaced from other parts of the country. Existing financing "is clearly not enough to meet the needs of the most vulnerable people", said David Carden, UN deputy regional humanitarian coordinator for the Syria crisis, from Murin in Idlib province.
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Hundreds of thousands of Mauritanians are struggling to feed themselves as they fall victim to the effects of climate change.
A chronically hungry country, Mauritania could see the availability of food drop to its lowest level in years if drought continues to ravage crops, livestock and livelihoods.
An estimated 1.3 million people will face food insecurity this year, according to the latest assessment by the UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC). Among them, nearly half a million people are expected to fall into severe food insecurity by June and be “unable to meet their food needs without external assistance. Around 21,000 will suffer extreme food insecurity, or a near complete depletion of their livelihoods.