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UN brief urges more funding and access as crises worsen in South Sudan, Gaza, Syria, Mozambique and Venezuela
Summary
At a United Nations press briefing, the Spokesperson summarized multiple humanitarian emergencies — including displacement in South Sudan, cholera outbreaks, constrained aid in Gaza and a CERF allocation for Mozambique — and urged member states to provide sustained flexible funding and lift restrictions on aid deliveries.
At a United Nations press briefing, the Spokesperson said the UN and its humanitarian partners are ready to scale up operations across multiple crises but need more funding and unrestricted access.
The Spokesperson highlighted South Sudan, saying renewed violence since last December has uprooted an estimated 280,000 people and that aid deliveries have been disrupted. He warned of rising cholera risk, giving figures the UN received from authorities: "already 55 cases and 7 deaths" in one week in Ayog, Ayod and Duke counties, and "more than 98,000 cholera cases, including more than 1,600 deaths across nine states" since September.
On northern Syria, the…
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