Monrovia — Liberia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs H.E. Amb. Dee-Maxwell Saah Kemayah, Sr., has outlined the current humanitarian challenges of the Continent as an emergency that should be addressed on a timely and strategic basis, stressing that they are a host of inter-rellated causes driven by intra-state conflicts, terrorism, climate change, and unconstitutional changes of Governments.
Minister Kemayah said the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine are the current catalysts that have exacerbated the humanitarian problem, including rising fuel and food prices and food insecurity.
In mobilizing financing to address this problem, Minister Kemayah said they should also look inwards by allocating resources to humanitarian activities for the affected population in targeted Member States, based on the Common African Position (CAP) on Humanitarian Effectiveness. The aim of this strategy is to empower the affected States in providing the urgently needed social and economic development for improving livelihoods.
Speaking during the humanitarian challenges and pledging conference at the extraordinary summit of the Executive Council of the African Union, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea recently, the Liberian Foreign Minister intoned that they should also zero-in on the relevant recommendations from the various reports put before them to create the pathways for a sustainable resource mobilization strategy by all relevant stakeholders, including the AU, the UN System, International Organizations, and our Regional Economic Communities.
“By being timely and strategic, we can identify for the decision of the AU Assembly the relevant sources and targets of humanitarian assistance.
“Excellencies, thank you again for affording my Delegation an opportunity to make this brief intervention on how to be timely and strategic in identifying the way forward in humanitarian financing to address the current humanitarian challenges in Africa. I wish us all productive deliberations.
“In conclusion, Liberia supports the Declaration on the Humanitarian Situation in Africa”, Minister Kemayah noted.
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