By Michelle Nichols
NEW YORK, March 1 (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said a disappointing $1.7 billion had been pledged by countries on Monday for humanitarian aid in Yemen - less than half the $3.85 billion the world body was seeking for 2021 to avert a large-scale famine. For most people, life in Yemen is now unbearable. Childhood in Yemen is a special kind of hell. Yemeni children are starving, Guterres said as he opened the pledging conference. After it concluded, he described the outcome as disappointing and warned in a statement: Cutting aid is a death sentence.
Some 16 million Yemenis - more than half the population of the Arabian Peninsula country - are going hungry, the United Nations says. Of those, 5 million are on the brink of famine, U.N. aid chief Mark Lowcock has said.
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NEW YORK United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres pledged on Wednesday to mobilize enough international pressure on Myanmar’s military “to make sure that this coup fails” as the U.N. Security Council tries to negotiate a statement on the crisis.
The Myanmar army detained the country’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi and others on Monday in response to “election fraud,” handed power to military chief Min Aung Hlaing, and imposed a state of emergency for one year.
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By Michelle Nichols
NEW YORK, Feb 3 (Reuters) - United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres pledged on Wednesday to mobilize enough international pressure on Myanmar s military to make sure that this coup fails as the U.N. Security Council tries to negotiate a statement on the crisis.
The Myanmar army detained the country s leader Aung San Suu Kyi and others on Monday in response to election fraud , handed power to military chief Min Aung Hlaing, and imposed a state of emergency for one year. We will do everything we can to mobilize all the key actors and international community to put enough pressure on Myanmar to make sure that this coup fails, Guterres said during an interview broadcast by The Washington Post. It is absolutely unacceptable after elections - elections that I believe took place normally - and after a large period of transition.