UN launches record $51.5bn emergency funding appeal

GENEVA, 02 December 2022, (TON): The UN appealed for record funds for aid next year, as the Ukraine war and other conflicts, climate emergencies and the still-simmering pandemic push more people into crisis, and some toward famine.

The United Nations’ annual Global Humanitarian Overview estimated that 339 million people worldwide will need some form of emergency assistance next year a staggering 65 million more people than the estimate a year ago.

UN aid chief Martin Griffiths told reporters “it’s a phenomenal number and it’s a depressing number.”

He said “if all the people in need of emergency assistance were in one country, it would be the third-largest nation in the world, after China and India.”

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