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. Its first Ukraine appeal raised more than the amount requested, and its second is on its way to being fully funded. (AFP)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. Refugees from Ukraine listen to a music group during a concert at the Humanitarian Aid Center set up at the Global Expo exhibition hall in Warsaw, Poland, on July 15, 2022. 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 00:17 UTC