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Toilets built by Clean Shelter Initiative in a camp in Al Mawasi-Rafah (in the southern part of Gaza).
Clean Shelter

News in Brief 30 May 2024

News in Brief
  • As Israeli ground incursions into Gaza continue, aid is cut by two-thirds
  • Sudan: ‘Noose of war’ tightens on civilians in El Fasher: top UN official 
  • Mali in rights spotlight over widespread recruitment of children in conflict zones
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Dr. Rik Peeperkorn, chief of the WHO office for the West Bank and Gaza, interviewed by UN News.
UN News/Anton Uspensky

News in Brief 29 May 2024

News in Brief
  • Gaza: vital medical supplies running out, warns UN health agency 
  • In Sahel, grave violations against children up 70 per cent: UNICEF 
  • Global unemployment set to drop slightly this year: ILO
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Cyclone Remal makes landfall over Coastal Bangladesh and adjoining coastal West Bengal
© UNICEF/Salahuddin Ahmed Paulash/Drik

News in Brief 28 May 2024

News in Brief

  • Deep concerns over ‘inhuman’ detention of Gazans by Israeli authorities 

  • Papua New Guinea disaster: Rescue efforts face complex challenges: IOM

  • 3.2 million children at risk in Bangladesh as Cyclone Remal hits hard: UNICEF
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Two boys gaze out at the ocean at a beach, in Rafah, Gaza, April 2024.
© UNOCHA/Yasmina Guerda

News in Brief 27 May 2024

News in Brief
  • Papua New Guinea landslide: UN chief’s solidarity with victims 
  • Gaza: Mass casualties reported in Israeli attack on camp for displaced
  • Pandemic treaty is a ‘once-in-a-generation opportunity’, says Guterres
  • Haiti: 2 in 3 households do not have enough to eat, says WFP 
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The people of Gaza continue to be forcibly displaced. Since the military offensive on Rafah started 6 May, over 630,000 people have been forced to flee the area.
© UNRWA

News in Brief 24 May 2024

News in Brief
  • World court orders Israel to halt Rafah operation immediately 
  • COVID-19 eliminated a decade of progress in global level of life expectancy: WHO
  • Ukraine: Kharkiv city still under attack, sparking further displacement, says OHCHR
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Aftermath of attack in the city centre of Kharkiv, Ukraine.
© IOM

News in Brief 23 May 2024

News in Brief
  • ‘Appalling’ Russian attacks on Kharkiv region must end says top UN humanitarian in Ukraine
  • International action ‘crucial’ to save thousands of Rohingya lives in Myanmar
  • UN rights experts welcome maritime tribunal ruling obliging countries to cut CO2 pollution
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Around 1.7 million people have been displaced in Gaza, some multiple times.
© UNRWA

News in Brief 22 May 2024

News in Brief
  • Gaza: Conflict in Rafah puts key relief supplies warehouses out of reach 
  • Geopolitical tensions threaten global trade, warns UN’s Amina Mohammed
  • Biodiversity breakdown alert: one million species under threat, says UNEP
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The UN estimates that over 810,000 people have fled Rafah in the past two weeks.
© UNRWA

News in Brief 21 May 2024

News in Brief
  • Gaza: UN health agency’s Tedros calls for end to siege of Al-Awda hospital 
  • Ukraine: 16,000 uprooted by deadly Kharkiv escalation, humanitarians warn 
  • OCHA aid call for southern African nations suffering worst drought in 100 years #ElNiño
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The International Criminal Court is based in The Hague, Netherlands.
UN Photo/Rick Bajornas

News in Brief 20 May 2024

News in Brief
  • World court seeks arrest warrants for Hamas leaders and Israel’s Netanyahu
  • Gaza: Now 810,000 have fled Rafah amid ongoing Israeli operation
  • Yemen: human rights experts press for release of detained Bahá'ís 

 

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Children and their families stand near temporary shelters at an IDP camp in Zelingei town, central Darfur, Sudan.
© UNICEF/Antony Spalton

News in Brief 17 May 2024

News in Brief
  • UN rights chief says horrified by Sudan escalation as famine draws nearer
  • WHO: antimicrobial resistance an increasingly worrying threat
  • Ukraine’s civilians facing daily drone and glider bomb attacks: IOM
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