Mohamed Khaled Khiari, United Nations Assistant Secretary-General of the Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations for the Middle East, Asia, and the Pacific, updates the Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East (Yemen)
eopardising the food security and livelihoods of millions of Yemenis.Rhe government’s necessary COVID-19 restriction measures, enacted to prevent the virus’s transmission, have exacerbated food supply and access at the home level
Reena Ghelani, Deputy Director of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs’ Coordination and Response Division, updates the Security Council on the situation in the Middle East
Mark Lowcock, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, briefs Security Council members on the Middle East during a videoconference (Yemen)
The window to prevent famine in Yemen is narrowing as new figures reveal record highs of acute food insecurity in the country, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the UN World Food Programme (WFP) and UNICEF warned on 3 December.