Africa: UN Agencies Appeal for Help to Protect Weakest From Unprecedented El Niño
- On Wednesday, United Nations agencies issued an appeal for immediate assistance as the strongest El Niño on record strikes, with Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization Celeste Saulo warning it is "unprecedented in strength."
- Tom Fletcher, the UN's emergency relief chief, described this El Niño as a "wrecking ball" that will tear through Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the Pacific with extreme heat, droughts, and floods.
- Fletcher released more than $50 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund to help 11 frontline countries, including Ethiopia and Somalia, where supplies are urgently needed before heavy rains arrive.
- The African Development Bank estimates the crisis could cost African countries between $10 and $20 billion, while Fletcher warned the humanitarian system "cannot alone cope with a threat on this scale."
- United Nations agencies issued a joint call for "urgent and coordinated anticipatory action," as experts warn impacts "will be felt for months and potentially years to come" due to overlaying crises.
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The window to prepare for an exceptionally powerful El Nino remains open in many regions, but UN officials warned Wednesday that the humanitarian system cannot cope with a threat of this scale alone, as they urged wider global mobilization.
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