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This morning, the Secretary-General spoke at the closed virtual meeting with leading mayors supported by the C40 Cities.
On Monday, at 11:30 a.m., there will be a hybrid joint press conference with the Secretary-General and the Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization, Petteri Taalas. They will present the report on the State of the Global Climate in 2020.
This morning, in the General Assembly, the Secretary-General paid tribute to the memory of the late President of Tanzania, John Magufuli.
The UN Peacekeeping Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is telling us that the cities of Butembo and Goma are relatively calm today. Commercial activity is progressively resuming in the Goma neighborhoods where clashes occurred earlier this week.
Our humanitarian colleagues in Nigeria continue to receive alarming reports of clashes between insurgent groups and Nigerian Armed Forces in the town of Damasak in Borno State.
The World Food Programme (WFP) said today that immediate action is needed to prevent a hunger emergency impacting millions of families in West and Central Africa.
On Syria, a quick update on the UN cross-border operations: On Wednesday, we dispatched 54 truckloads of humanitarian assistance from Turkey to north-west Syria via the Bab al-Hawa crossing.
Ending on a happy note, from Kingston, Jamaica, we are delighted that our friends in Jamaica have paid their budget dues in full, which brings us to 89 Member States which have done so.
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Office of the Spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General