Thread by @althecat

A @UN_Spokesperson hosted briefing today from @WFP East Africa coordinator Michael Dunford about food insecurity, drought and conflict caused, in the Horn of Africa.
media.un.org/en/asset/k16/k…

@UN_Spokesperson @WFP Dunford is seeking funding urgently to scale up operations in Kenya, Somalia and Southern Ethiopia. He answers questions on Afar and confirms the last convoy into Tigray was on 16th December, the day the TPLF offensive against Afar began.

@UN_Spokesperson @WFP The @WFP's Dunford does not however attribute the TPLF commencing this offensive - which remains underway - as the cause of the restrictions on access to Tigray.

@UN_Spokesperson @WFP Dunford says 60 million people in the wider region are food insecure and describes seeing IDPs being on the move en masse after losing all their livestock to the drought. Around 300 million is needed in funding to pay for the southern and Eastern HoA drought situation.

@UN_Spokesperson @WFP Earlier the main daily UN Media briefing also covered Afar and Amhara humantarian aid effort and mentioned the absence of humanitarian aid access to Tigray , again (as usual) not mentioning the cause of the fighting in Afar, nor calling on the TPLF to stop.

That briefing can be watched here >> media.un.org/en/asset/k1v/k…

The Daily UN briefings are also posted to the UN's youtube channel here >> youtube.com/c/unitednation…