The United Nations (UN) response plan for 2024 includes $413.4 million (€383.7 million) for Mozambique, an amount that aims to help 1.7 million people out of a total of 2.3 million in need.
As the global humanitarian outlook remains “grim,” the UN launched its global appeal for 2024 this Monday, asking for $46.4 billion (about €43 billion) to help 180.5 million people worldwide through “lifesaving assistance and protection.”
This year the United Nations requested $512.9 million (€476 million) for Mozambique – the only Portuguese-speaking country included in the appeal – but the request was only 36% funded, according to a report announced this Monday on fair .
By 2024, nearly 300 million people worldwide will be in need of humanitarian assistance and protection due to conflict, climate emergencies and other factors, with 74.1 million of them living in Eastern and Southern Africa.
The crisis in Sudan accounts for almost 40% of this amount, according to the UN, as domestic needs in the country and the entire region have increased since the conflict began in August 2023.
“Sudan is experiencing a sharp increase in need, from 15.8 million people in 2023 to a staggering 30 million people in 2024. In West and Central Africa, 65.1 million people are in need, and the crises in Burkina Faso and Niger have widened and intensified. resulting in higher needs than in 2023,” the UN explained in its Global Humanitarian Vision 2024 report.
In this sense, the crises in Sudan and South Sudan led to the UN’s two largest regional appeals for the following year: $1.3 billion (€1.2 billion) and $1.5 billion (€1.39 billion) respectively.
The African country receiving the UN’s biggest appeal was Ethiopia, with a wealth of $2.9 billion (€2.69 billion).
According to the UN, conflict, climate disasters and natural disasters such as those that have severely affected Mozambique, as well as economic factors, are the three main drivers of these needs, which together have made acute food insecurity a reality for 258 million people in 58 countries. .
Without concerted international efforts, food security prospects will further deteriorate by 2024, with Burkina Faso, Mali, the Occupied Palestinian Territory, South Sudan and Sudan being the international body’s biggest concerns.
Due to lack of funding in 2023, humanitarian organizations reached less than two-thirds of the people they intended to help.
“The consequences are tragic: in Afghanistan, 10 million people lost access to food aid between May and November. In Myanmar, more than half a million people are left in inadequate housing conditions. In Yemen, more than 80% of those who sought help do not have adequate water supply and sanitation. And in Nigeria, only 2% of women expecting sexual and reproductive health and gender-based violence services received them,” according to the UN.
“Humanitarian workers save lives, fight hunger, protect children, fight epidemics and provide shelter and sanitation in many of the world’s most inhumane settings. But the necessary support from the international community does not meet the needs,” the deputy warned. Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths.
If more aid is not provided in 2024, “people will pay for it with their lives,” he added.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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