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Senior UN officials to address food insecurity in Ethiopia

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Nairobi, Kenya, January 26 (Infosplusgabon) -  The Under-Secretary-General for UN Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mark Lowcock, and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Administrator, Achim Steiner, will travel to Ethiopia from 27-29 January to highlight the immense challenge of persistent food insecurity and the new approach to addressing it.

 

During the three-day visit the UN officials will also attend the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa and participate in a high-level meeting on the New Way of Working, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said a in a news dispatch on Friday.

 

Ethiopia has made remarkable strides in development and addressing food insecurity over the past three decades, but its susceptibility to drought has resulted in recurring food insecurity, the statement said.

 

''In recent months, hundreds of thousands of people on the border between the Somali and Oromo regions have been displaced, requiring additional humanitarian response," said the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).

 

Today, millions of people need assistance to survive, for which US$900 million will be required this year, the statement said.

 

"The UN principals will highlight the need to continue life-saving humanitarian assistance as an urgent priority, while simultaneously laying the foundations for long-term resilience to future shocks and recovery."

 

They will meet with senior Government officials and humanitarian and development partners, and travel to field locations to meet people who have been affected by drought.

 

They will also assess programmes that link humanitarian response with resilience and recovery.

 

 

FIN/INFOSPLUSGABON/AAT/GABON 2018

 

 

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