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UNHCR staff carry out a needs assessment with some of those arriving to Namapa, in Nampula province, after fleeing recent attacks by non-state armed groups in Cabo Delgado.

© UNHCR Mozambique

News in Brief 8 March 2024

8 March 2024

Marking International Women’s Day, UN chief launches plan to tackle baked-in bias
Rafah ground assault would increase risk of atrocity crimes
Mozambique: Thousands displaced over fear of violence

Families line up to receive cash assistance. WFP provides enough cash for each person to buy daily meals while they wait to travel onwards to their final destination.

© WFP/Hugh Rutherford

News in Brief 7 March 2024

7 March 2024

Gaza: Fears over growing toll of starvation among young
Sudan: UN chief leads call for Ramadan cessation of hostilities
Nigeria mass abductions condemned

Sudanese refugees in the UN-run transit centre in Renk, South Sudan.

© IOM/Elijah Elaigwu

News in Brief 6 March 2024

6 March 2024

Gaza humanitarian update
11 months into Sudan war, ‘world's worst hunger crisis’ looms
2023 was deadliest year on record for migrants

Developing countries, like Iraq (pictured) lack the resources to invest in recovery, climate action and the SDGs.

© WMO/Abbas Raad

News in Brief 5 March 2024

5 March 2024

North Gaza aid mission reveals more infants may die from hunger
El Niño weakens but impacts continue
Drug controls: UN-backed body offers e-solutions to counter narcotics surge

Arlene (left) takes every opportunity to include her mother in her walks along the beach in Belle Garden, Tobago.

© WHO/Alasdair Bell

News in Brief 4 March 2024

4 March 2024

Gaza: Gaza conflict could fuel much wider Middle East ‘conflagration’, warns UN rights chief
Türk: ‘Mega election year’ 2024 could be a landmark for democracy:
Pacific accounts for nine in 10 most obese countries in the world (WHO)

Conditions across the Gaza Strip are deteriorating as the conflict continues.

© UNRWA

News in Brief 1 March 2024

1 March 2024

Gaza: Worst famine fears realized as 10th child reportedly starves to death
Myanmar crisis now a never-ending nightmare, warns UN rights chief
Sudan’s displaced in desperate need of basics to survive: UNHCR

A man holding a baby walks amid the rubble of his destroyed neighbourhood in Gaza.

© UNRWA/Ashraf Amra

News in Brief 29 February 2024

29 February 2024

‘Carnage’ in Gaza must end, UN rights chief tells Human Rights Council
Risks from climate change, pollution and biodiversity loss are real
UN chief “committed” to Sudan as UNITAMS mission ends

A man cooks food for his children over a wood fire in front of his destroyed home in al-Rimal neighuborhood, west of Gaza City.

© UNICEF/Omar Al-Qattaa

News in Brief 28 February 2024

28 February 2024

Gaza: Famine imminent without more aid relief, warn UN humanitarians
All parties to Gaza crisis may have committed war crimes: UN rights chief
Aid agencies underscore need to help Ethiopians brought low by climate, war and disease

A girl, whose family has ben displaced by the conflict, stands outside her tent in Rafah, Gaza.

© WHO

News in Brief 27 February 2024

27 February 2024

Gaza: Frustration mounts over blocked UN aid missions
Peacekeepers’ alarm over exchanges of fire on Israel-Lebanon border
$9 billion investment boost for global internet connectivity: ITU

Al-Awda square (in the center of Rafah, south of Gaza), where Al-Bahr Street has turned into a crowded market. 1.5 million Palestinians now live in Rafah that used to be home for around 250,000 people.

UN News/Ziad Taleb

News in Brief 26 February 2024

26 February 2024

With eyes on Gaza, UN chief launches rights protection pledge
UN migration agency teams up with top manufacturer against ‘slave’ labour
Russian anti-war campaigner’s harassment reflects pressure on judiciary: top rights expert

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