United Nations/The UN released 160 million dollars from its emergency fund to address twelve humanitarian crises in the world, including Afghanistan, Cuba, Sudan, Palestine and Yemen, as indicated this Friday by the spokesman for the secretary general, Stéphane Dujarric.
In his daily press conference, Dujarric noted that the organization has decided to allocate $160 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to support assistance in “the world’s most neglected crises.”
Quoting the UN Undersecretary General for Humanitarian Affairs, Tom Fletcher, the spokesperson assured that this funding will help those who may be left stranded, but assured that the money alone “will not be enough.”
Fletcher called for more political will to open access to aid and remove obstacles preventing the organization from carrying out its mandate.
Those in Afghanistan, Sudan, South Sudan, Yemen and Palestine are some of the crises where “urgent diplomatic action” is needed to guarantee access to aid
Of the new allocation, $150 million will support “vital interventions” in Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Cuba, Mali, Niger, the occupied Palestinian territories, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan and Yemen.
For the undersecretary, those in Afghanistan, Sudan, South Sudan, Yemen and Palestine are some of the crises in which “urgent diplomatic action” is needed to guarantee access to aid.
The other $10 million in the allocation goes exclusively to people with disabilities in these crises.
In addition to the organization’s financial crisis, the blocking of humanitarian access has become one of the main obstacles to UN relief operations, which has blocked humanitarian assistance to 11 million people considered priority.
