News in Brief

A vast array of weaponry has been used in the last seven months of conflict in Gaza, so much so that UN mine action experts say that land potentially contaminated with unexploded ordnance will take years to make safe.

Patrick McCabe is a UN Mine Action Service (UNMAS) veteran whose job is to help civilians move around Gaza as safely as possible, now and when the fighting ends.

He spoke to UN News’s Daniel Johnson, about what he’d seen in the shattered enclave so far.

• 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

• 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 

• 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 

• 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

• 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 

• 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

• ‘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

• 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

• 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