Daily Press Briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the United Nations Secretary-General.
- Ethiopia
- Central African Republic/Peacekeeping
- Central African Republic/Peacekeeping
- Central African Republic/Human Rights
- Bosnia and Herzegovina/Lipa Camp
- Mozambique
- Financial Contribution
ETHIOPIA
In Ethiopia, our humanitarian colleagues tell us that although access is limited in areas where conflict is ongoing, humanitarian assistance has started to gradually trickle into Tigray.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has dispatched emergency health supplies to treat more than 10,000 patients for three months. Additional medical supplies are on the way. The World Food Programme (WFP) managed to deliver food for 35,000 refugees in Adi Harush and Mai Ayni camps this week, but the convoy to Hitsats and Shimelba refugee camps has returned due to insecurity in the area.
Water treatment chemicals were also provided to internally displaced people in northern Amhara as well as in western Tigray. Water, sanitation, hygiene and non-food items are also prepositioned in northern Amhara and western Afar for 5,000 internally displaced people.
The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), together with the Logistic Cluster, led by the WFP, agreed with the relevant authorities on setting up a temporarily humanitarian information sharing mechanism to facilitate access, movements, safety and security of humanitarian assets, personnel and activities in Tigray. This includes border areas where there may be people-in-need. In the meantime, we continue to engage with the Government and all relevant interlocutors for the safe passage of humanitarian personnel and supplies to all parts of the Tigray province.
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC/PEACEKEEPING
The UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) today denied press reports that were claiming that the town of Bambari had fallen and remained under the control of the UPC armed group. The UN Mission said that UN peacekeepers are patrolling the streets, and that the situation is under control.
MINUSCA launched operations yesterday to expel UPC combatants and re-took full control of the town, following an attack by combatants against these gendarmerie forces.
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC/PEACEBUILDING
In a statement issued today, the Central African Republic Country-Specific Configuration of the Peacebuilding Commission strongly condemned the recent attacks on civilians, peacekeepers and humanitarian workers, as well as violations of the Political Agreement. These grave incidents risk reversing hard-won gains achieved by the country in recent years, a few days before the holding of the first round of the legislative and presidential elections, scheduled for Sunday.
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