United Nations, July 10 (IANS) UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher called for urgent action to contain Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the region.”We need to move faster to break the back of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo,” said Fletcher in a statement on Thursday. “Ituri province remains the centre of the outbreak, but the virus is spreading across other provinces where conflict and the constant…
Latest Tom Fletcher News & Updates
United Nations, July 7 (IANS) UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher has called the head of Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) to raise concerns about a military escalation. The coordinator called RSF commander Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo to discuss the escalating hostilities in Sudan, including in El Obeid, the state capital of North Kordofan, said the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), which Fletcher leads.”Fletch…
United Nations, June 19 (IANS) UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher called for the removal of humanitarian restraints on Gaza.Despite recent improvements, humanitarians still face continued persistent and deliberate constraints, Fletcher told the Security Council.”Humanitarian access continues to rely on one, at most two, operational crossings, when significantly greater capacity could easily be made available for the movement of aid a…
Geneva, May 23 (IANS) UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Tom Fletcher, has said that he is allocating up to $60 million from the world body’s Central Emergency Response Fund to accelerate the response to the Ebola outbreak in Congo and the wider region.”We need to get ahead of this Ebola outbreak,” Fletcher said on Friday in a statement.While the humanitarian community is fully mobilised, he said, “the epidemiological context is challenging: the…
United Nations, May 14 (IANS) UN humanitarians have said that aid is being distributed in war-torn southwestern Sudan, while an amount of 12 million US dollars is targeted for famine relief in the neighbouring country of South Sudan. “The UN and its humanitarian partners continue to respond to humanitarian needs across Sudan,” said the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).The office said that in the Kordofan region, aid organisations are providing life-saving support to …
Gaza, May 5 (IANS) Humanitarians are warning of the lack of prosthetic and rehabilitation care in Gaza for amputees, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has said. The OCHA on Monday (local time) said its partners reported that more than 6,600 amputees, one in five a child, need prosthetic and rehabilitation care, including thousands newly amputated since October 2023. Yet only eight prosthetic technicians are available to respond.”With severe shortages of specialist…
United Nations, April 18 (IANS) UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher warned of famine in South Sudan.”The world’s youngest nation stands at a dangerous crossroads. Conflict up. Displacement up. Hunger up. Disease up. Attacks on aid workers up,” Fletcher told the Security Council in a briefing on the situation in South Sudan.Two-thirds of the population in the country needs humanitarian support this year, yet the world body’s humanitari…
Kabul, Dec 31 (IANS) The United Nations has called for USD 1.71 billion in funding for humanitarian work in Afghanistan in 2026, warning that the nation continues to face humanitarian crisis despite a slight reduction in needs, local media reported on Wednesday. Approximately 21.9 million people, nearly 45 per cent of the population, will need humanitarian assistance in 2026, according to the UN Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan. Ongoing conflict, economic fragility, food insecurity and clima…