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1.8bn USD of new humanitarian funding announced by @StateDept will save millions of lives.
The humanitarian community has a plan to reach 87m people with lifesaving aid and we’re determined to deliver.
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Tom Fletcher
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Personal a/c of @UNReliefChief. Ex Head Hertford College; UK Ambo; No 10. ✍️ Naked Diplomat, 10 Survival Skills For World In Flux, The Ambassador, The Assassin.
Via Nbi, Paris, Beirut, Oxford Katılım Ağustos 2011
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I’ve been in close contact with our courageous Ukraine team after we were hit twice this morning while delivering food in Kherson.
We demand answers and accountability.
OCHA Ukraine@OCHA_Ukraine
Today, delivering aid to people in severe need of assistance and under constant attack in #Kherson, a clearly marked @UN vehicle was struck by a drone. Over 200 civilians, mostly older people, remain there. More from the Head of @UNOCHA in Ukraine, who accompanied the convoy⬇️
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I echo the Secretary‑General’s thanks for the United States’ further commitment of $1.8 billion to the humanitarian community.
At a moment of rising needs and declining funding, this support will help save millions of lives.
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@NRC_Egeland @UNReliefChief Thanks Jan. I quoted in the press conference your powerful challenge to us as a humanitarian community that we must ensure that what we do is more effective than giving the funding direct to beneficiaries.
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These are very welcome news.
This second large US contribution through humanitarian pooled funds will help sustain and scale up humanitarian action for communities in free fall.
Hopefully this is a sign of predictable future US humanitarian funding.
Well done @UNReliefChief
Tom Fletcher@UNReliefChief
I echo the Secretary‑General’s thanks for the United States’ further commitment of $1.8 billion to the humanitarian community. At a moment of rising needs and declining funding, this support will help save millions of lives.
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People ask what happens if international cooperation breaks down. For humanitarians and those we serve it already has.
These deaths are choices: the human cost of unserious, short term politics; and a war economy that works for arms dealers, fossil fuels, and casino traders.
Tom Fletcher@UNReliefChief
A bit of uncut frustration, pride and anger at the end of a week in Somalia. We need to fight back.
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“Sudan is an atrocities lab right now.”
UN Humanitarian Chief @UNReliefChief tells @mehdirhasan about the dire conditions he saw on the ground in Sudan, and how funding cuts have meant humanitarians must choose which lives to save there.
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A stroke of a pen in a Finance Ministry. But aid cuts don’t stay on paper.
In Somalia, they mean less food and medicine – and clinics further away.
My interview with @BeckyCNN:
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Behind the scenes for the unseen part of most missions. Final day in Somalia – listening hard, meeting UN and NGO partners, ambassadors, and speaking to media. Thank you to our teams for extraordinary work in face of extraordinary challenges.
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.@UNReliefChief tells me his teams on the ground “are choosing which kids to save and which kids not to save.” He stresses this is yet another example of how the Iran war is worsening an already dire situation in Somalia.
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Somalia didn’t cause the climate crisis – yet it is among the countries hit hardest by it.
Maryama is just one person trying to survive that reality.
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In Baidoa, Somalia, cuts are biting and the Strait of Hormuz closure is driving costs up fast. Partners like @MSF are forced to make even harder choices about who to help.
We need to get more support to extraordinary humanitarians like Dr. Asma.
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Latest Humanifesto, sent tonight from Mogadishu.
Latest on frontline humanitarian responses, campaign to save 87m lives (or what you could spend 23bn on instead), hyper prioritization vs hyper politicization.
And a bumper three book recommendations.
linkedin.com/pulse/humanife…
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Practical discussion with President @HassanSMohamud in Mogadishu on Somalia’s opportunities & challenges.
We discussed serious threats to potential progress, incl. droughts, floods, conflict, funding cuts and knock on price rises and shortages due to closure of Strait of Hormuz.
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A cruel swipe of a pen in a rich capital stacks the survival odds even further against the displaced Somali women I met today.
Cuts mean they have to go much further to get lifesaving food, medicine and water, with no guarantees they’ll find any.
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Good to do a more positive Security Council briefing than usual.
Progress in Syria – after years of war and neglect. But huge challenges remain.
My asks if we are to sustain momentum:
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"I think the UK can play a major role right now quietly, just standing up for liberal democracy and holding the line on that."
Tom Fletcher (@UNReliefChief) on how the UK should respond to the changing international order.
Watch the event➡️bit.ly/3QmKAsv
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The world order is under sustained attack.
War. Greed. Apathy. Impunity. The growing assumption that rules can be ignored.
The UN wasn't built for the easy moments. It was built for moments like this.
Thank you @ChathamHouse for hosting this discussion.
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"A thousand dead humanitarians in three years - when did that become normal?"
Tom Fletcher (@UNReliefChief) on the violence facing humanitarian workers in conflict zones.
Watch the event➡️bit.ly/3QmKAsv
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