Africa: UN Chief Appoints Expert Panel to Address Humanitarian Funding Shortfalls

21 May 2015

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed a high-level United Nations panel to address the yawning gap between resources and financing for the world's ever-pressing humanitarian efforts.

In a statement released by his spokesperson's office earlier today, the Secretary-General observed that over the last decade, the demand for humanitarian aid had risen "dramatically" amid an uptick in water scarcity, food insecurity, demographic shifts, rapid urbanization and climate change.

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