5/31/2023 0 Comments Just to clarify![]() It appeals to national and community leaders to exercise restraint and commit to peace and dialogue as this violence risks jeopardizing the stability of the region and provoking retaliatory attacks. UNMISS continues to engage with Government, with State officials and other leaders to prevent any further escalation of tensions. The Mission is collaborating with WFP to improve security around the movement of convoys across the country. Turning to South Sudan, the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) - is increasing its presence in conflict hotspots following a spate of attacks on humanitarian convoys in the last week, in the Greater Jonglei area. However, resources are limited, and the situation may deteriorate further without additional funding to scale up the response. We, along with our partners, continue to support cholera treatment centres. We are, of course, concerned that people’s limited access to water and inadequate hygiene conditions facilitates the spread of this disease. The affected areas host over 1 million internally displaced people with precarious living conditions in many displacement sites. In total, 6,200 cases have been registered between the beginning of the year and last week. Health authorities have registered 1,800 confirmed and suspected cases between 13 and 19 March that’s compared to the 1,000 cases in the previous week. They say the areas of Goma, Karisimbi, Masisi and Nyiragongo are particularly impacted by this outbreak. Turning to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, our humanitarian colleagues there are telling us there is a cholera outbreak in North Kivu Province. And we and our partners have also provided 185,000 ready-to-eat meals and 785,000 hot meals to people affected by the earthquakes. ![]() So far, the United Nations and our partners have carried out safety assessments of nearly 3,700 schools and set up eight temporary learning spaces in shelters and community centres. We also provided technical support to committees assessing the damage in the Governorates of Idlib, Aleppo and Latakia. In the Government-held areas of Syria, we and our humanitarian partners continue to help remove debris. UN staff have now completed 37 cross-border missions into the north-west since the first inter-agency visit to Idlib on 14 February. ![]() Turning to Syria, since last month’s earthquakes, more than 1,070 trucks have crossed into the north-west of the country from southern Türkiye, carrying aid provided by seven UN agencies. We must learn and teach the horrific history of slavery, he said. Governments everywhere should introduce lessons into school curricula on the causes, manifestations and far-reaching consequences of the transatlantic slave trade. Mr. Guterres said that it is incumbent on us all to fight slavery’s legacy of racism. ![]() But, he added, it is also a history of awe-inspiring courage that shows human beings at their best - starting with enslaved people who rose up against impossible odds and extending to the abolitionists who spoke out against this atrocious crime. The Secretary-General said that the history of racialized chattel slavery is a history of suffering, crime, violence and exploitation. This morning, the Secretary-General spoke at the General Assembly event this morning commemorating the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, and that day was on Saturday. Just in a short while we are going to be joined virtually from Haiti by Jean-Martin Bauer, World Food Programme (WFP) Country Director in Haiti, who will brief us on the current tragic food security situation in Haiti. The following is a near-verbatim transcript of today’s noon briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesman for the Secretary-General. ![]()
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