PRESS BRIEFING TODAY
As you are all aware, the tenth Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons is scheduled to conclude today. 
The President of the Conference, Ambassador Gustavo Zlauvinen, will speak to you in this room at the end of the Review Conference. That will be late this afternoon. We should have an update hopefully around 3 p.m.
The High-Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Izumi Nakamitsu, will also speak to you right after Mr. Zlauvinen.

DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL
The Deputy Secretary-General, Amina Mohammed, will be attending the Eighth Tokyo International Conference on African Development, otherwise known as TICAD 8, on behalf of the Secretary-General. She arrived in Tunis earlier today where the conference is taking place and she’s starting her visit by meeting with some of our UN colleagues. 
Tomorrow, Ms. Mohammed will speak at the opening of TICAD. She is also scheduled to have a number of bilateral meetings with government officials and other stakeholders.
She will be back in New York on 29 August.

HORN OF AFRICA
I want to flag a couple of weather-related items.
As you may have seen, the World Meteorological Organization said that parts of the Greater Horn of Africa which are already experiencing drought are bracing for a fifth consecutive failed rainy season. Clearly all this will worsen with the crisis which is impacting millions of men, women and children in the area.
The forecast for October to December shows high chances of drier than average conditions across most parts of the region. In particular, the drought impacted areas of Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia are expected to receive significantly below normal rainfall totals through the end of the year.

CHAD
The other side of the coin is in Chad, where 340,000 people have now been impacted by catastrophic flooding in 11 of the country’s 23 provinces.
As of 16 August, the flooding had killed 22 people and caused extensive damage to homes, infrastructure, agricultural lands and livestock. It also sent the rates of malaria skyrocketing and has heightened fears of cholera outbreaks.
We along with our humanitarian partners are supporting the Government-led response to provide life-saving assistance, including food, health services, shelter and other essential supplies. So far, we have reached around 30,000 in the East and N’Djamena. We are ramping up our efforts to reach more people.
Our team yesterday called for financial support from donors. 
The humanitarian needs prior to the floods were only funded at 34 per cent as of mid-August – with $171 million received out of $510 million needed.
Also a programming note, on Tuesday we hope to have the head of the office in Pakistan come to talk to you about the floods that are going on there.

UKRAINE
Humanitarians this morning delivered eight trucks of critical relief items that will meet the needs of over 2,000 people in Toresk, a town located five kilometres from the front line in Donetska oblast. UN agencies brought 56 tons of food, hygiene kits, medical supplies and other critical items which will support people during the winter. Access to heating, water, gas, and electricity is limited in this town.
Speaking to reporters in Geneva from Kharkiv this morning, on the second day of her mission to eastern Ukraine, Humanitarian Coordinator, Denise Brown regretted that humanitarians continue to face tremendous challenges to reach people in areas not controlled by the Government of Ukraine. Ms. Brown said that since the start of the war, we've reached over 12 million people, as mentioned earlier this week. But we have reached less than a million people in non-Government-controlled areas.
Ms. Brown said that a plan is being developed to get aid in ahead of winter, including with humanitarian partners and local volunteers.