The United Nations will release 100 million dollars to support 10 underfunded humanitarian crises in Africa, America, Asia and the Middle East.

According to the organization's spokeswoman, in a publication released last Friday (30), and cited by the Reuters news agencyMore than a third of this funding will go to aid operations in Yemen (20 million dollars) and Ethiopia (15 million dollars), where people are struggling with hunger, displacement, disease and climate disasters.

Mozambique, which in addition to food insecurity is facing terrorist actions that have caused thousands of displaced people in Cabo Delgado, will receive seven million dollars.

Other countries that will benefit from the funding include Myanmar, Mali, Burkina Faso, Haiti, Cameroon, Burundi and Malawi.

"We urgently need increased and sustained donor attention to these underfunded crises," said Joyce Msuya, an official with the UN humanitarian agency, OCHA.

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