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REUTERS NEXT-U.N. aid chief to ask for 25% more aid money globally in 2023
2022.11.30 15:17
© Reuters. UN’s Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths speaks during a climate panel at a Reuters NEXT Newsmaker event in New York City, U.S., November 30, 2022. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The United Nations will ask for 25% more money to fund humanitarian aid operations globally in 2023, U.N. aid chief Martin Griffiths told a Reuters NEXT event on Wednesday.
He also said that he understands that a famine will not yet be declared in Somalia, but he warned: “We can assume that in Somalia and soon in Ethiopia, where the numbers will be much worse … people are dying already of hunger and starvation.”
