UN releases $100 million to support 10 underfunded crises
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BERLIN (Reuters) - The United Nations has released $100 million to support 10 underfunded humanitarian crises in Africa, the Americas, Asia and the Middle East, the U.N. 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).
"We urgently need increased and sustained donor attention to these underfunded crises," said U.N. humanitarian agency OCHA official Joyce Msuya.
(Reporting by Friederike Heine, Editing by Miranda Murray)
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