UN releases $100 million to support 10 underfunded crises

The United Nations (UN) has released $100 million to support underfunded humanitarian crises in Africa, the Americas, Asia and the Middle East, the UN said on Friday.

More than a third of this funding will go to aid operations in Yemen ($20 million) and Ethiopia ($15 million), where people are grappling with hunger, displacement, diseases and climate disasters, a spokesperson said during a regular briefing.

Other countries that will benefit from the funding include Myanmar ($12 million), Mali ($11 million), Burkina Faso ($10 million), Haiti ($9 million), Cameroon ($7 million) and Mozambique ($7 million), as well as El Nino-affected Burundi ($5 million) and Malawi ($4 million).

The release of funds follows another $100 million allocated in February.

“These combined 200 million this year is less than each of the previous two years, and there is a growing gap between the humanitarian needs and the funding that the emergency fund has to address these needs,” says a spokesperson for the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Jens Laerke.