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Displaced persons leaving Rafah towards central Gaza.
UN News / Ziad Taleb

News in Brief 8 May 2024

News in Brief
  • Gaza: No aid is coming through the south, confirms @UNRWA 
  • Unprecedented flooding displaces hundreds of thousands across east Africa: IOM
  • No respite in sight for Brazil suffering flood emergency: WMO
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A father with his son in a destroyed building in the Al-Salam neighborhood in the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip
Ziad Abu Khousa

News in Brief 7 May 2024

News in Brief
  • Uncertainty in Gaza amplified by closure of key border crossings
  • Russia: UN rights chief troubled by increasing crackdown on journalists
  • DRC: more than 80,000 newly displaced people amid new fighting in Kivu 
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A seven-year-old patient with severe acute malnutrition and dehydration was transferred to a field hospital in southern Gaza in April amid a looming famine in the north.
© WHO

News in Brief 6 May 2024

News in Brief
  • We won't abandon Gazans sheltering in Rafah, says UNRWA
  • Seven months into the war in Gaza, deep fears over unexploded ordnance threat
  • Urgent appeal launched for Yemen where 18.2 million people need lifesaving assistance 
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Recovering of bodies from under the rubble of a house in the Al-Nasr neighborhood, east of the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.
UN News/Ziad Taleb

News in Brief 3 May 2024

News in Brief
  • Targeting Rafah could lead to slaughter, warns UN aid agency 
  • Sudan violence leaves many areas beyond reach of aid teams; UNHCR 
  • Tropical cyclone Hidaya threatens further flooding in east Africa: WMO
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People in Rafah in the south of Gaza collect drinking water.
© UNRWA

News in Brief 2 May 2024

News in Brief
  • Development in Palestine set back more than 20 years due to Gaza war
  • Niger responds to 50 per cent spike in meningitis since last year
  • Detention of child migrants in EU must end, say top rights experts 
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Demonstrators in Boston protesting for a ceasefire to the Gaza war.
© Unsplash/Brett Wharton

News in Brief 1 May 2024

News in Brief
  • Gazans on tenterhooks awaiting news of ceasefire call 
  • Ukraine landmine contamination still having global economic impact
  • DR Congo conflict driving record levels of displacement, hunger
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• UN rights chief Türk ‘troubled’ by law enforcement crackdown on Gaza protests in US
© OHCHR/Irina Popa

News in Brief 30 April 2024

News in Brief
  • ‘Extraordinary, deep anxiety’ in Rafah from feared Israeli attack: UNRWA 
  • Gaza war spillover compounds misery for most vulnerable in Lebanon
  • UN rights chief Türk ‘troubled’ by law enforcement crackdown on Gaza protests in US
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A UN vehicle passes through the remains of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
© UNICEF/Tess Ingram

News in Brief 29 April 2024

News in Brief
  • Gaza at ‘most dangerous’ stage amid huge unexploded weapons risk, warns demining expert
  • Lift tax on aid relief, top UN emergency relief chief urges South Sudan  
  • UN expresses solidarity with Kenya following deadly floods

 

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People wait for the distribution of emergency food and nutrition assistance in West Darfur.
© WFP/World Relief

News in Brief 26 April 2024

News in Brief
  • Gaza humanitarian update, rights experts’ appeal over aid access
  • Sudan: Civilians ‘are trapped’ in El-Fasher, warns UN’s Türk 
  • ‘Just in case’ antibiotics widely overused during COVID-19, says UN health agency
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Aftermath of shelling in Aleppo, Syria (October 2023)
© UNOCHA/Bilal Alhammoud

News in Brief 25 April 2024

News in Brief
  • Teen alcohol and nicotine use in Europe is up, WHO urges preventive measure
  • UK gender change therapy review reveals devastating impacts on kids, says top rights expert
  • Independent rights body to investigate fate of missing persons in Syria 
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