The humanitarian agencies of United Nations they will need $51.5 billion next year, 25% more than in 2022Griffiths said at a news conference in Geneva, Switzerland.
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In total there are 339 million people who would need emergency aid next year, more than the 274 million people who needed it in 2022.
A figure, that of 339 million human beings, which is “huge and depressing” according to Griffiths.
The UN official stressed that humanitarian needs have not abated from the peak they reached as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
“Droughts and floods are wreaking havoc (…), from Pakistan to the Horn of Africa. The war in Ukraine has turned part of Europe into a battlefield. More than 100 million people are displaced, and all that adds to the devastation that the pandemic caused among the poorest”Griffiths explained.
The request for funds launched by the UN is based on a bleak outlook.
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At least 222 million people in 53 countries will face such a situation by the end of 2022, Griffiths said.
Of that total, 45 million people in 37 countries are at risk of starvation.
“Five countries are already experiencing what we know as conditions close to famine”Griffiths emphasized.
The countries in question are Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Haiti, Somalia and South Sudan, said a spokesman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Jens Laerke.
The public health It is also found under pressure in many parts of the worlddue to the persistence of Covid-19 and monkeypox, the ebola virus reappearance in Uganda and multiple cholera epidemics in different countries, such as Haiti and Syria.
All this in a context of climate change, which increases risks and vulnerabilities in the poorest countries.
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Climate change
According to the UN, from here at the end of the century extreme heat could cause as many victims as cancer.
In 2022, 47% of the requested funds were covered, explained Griffiths, a deficit that has never been so large, and that forces humanitarian organizations to choose between the populations likely to receive aid.
The country where the United Nations confronts the greatest need for funds next year it’s Afghanistan ($4.63 billion), followed by Syria, Yemen and Ukraine, Griffiths said.
Source: Ambito
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