Humanitarian aid agencies working in the world’s conflict and disaster zones need $48.7 billion in 2022 to assist more than 200 million people, according to the UN. The UN appealed for more than $6 billion from its donors this year to assist Ukrainians displaced or impacted by the fighting. Ghebreyesus, who is Ethiopian, said the world was treating humanitarian crises affecting black and white lives unequally, with only a “fraction” of the attention on Ukraine given elsewhere. We need the money for these humanitarian crises. Although aid funding improved slightly in 2021, the target rose again in 2022 to $48.7 billion — about $8 billion more than the UN had projected before the year began.

Source: Ethiopian News September 05, 2022 00:18 UTC