Global perspective Human stories

News in Brief

© UNICEF/Kate Klochko

News in Brief 19 April 2022

  • Ukraine: Aid agencies step up relief deliveries as humanitarian situation worsens

  • Guterres calls for calm in Middle East

  • Africa drought: low funding means only one in two people will be helped: FAO

Audio
2'53"
© UNOCHA/Christina Powell

News in Brief 13 April 2022

  • Ukraine; food and energy crisis: Countries must resist hoarding, says UN’s Guterres

  • Banditry in north-central Nigeria blamed for killings, displacement

  • Egypt in spotlight for ‘ongoing collective expulsions of Eritrean asylum seekers

Audio
3'9"
© UNDP/Oleksandr Ratushniak

News in Brief 11 April 2022

  • Ukraine resilience programme launches with focus on most vulnerable

  • Brazil: rights expert decries erosion of democracy

  • COVID-19: UN health agency panel repeats warnings over low vaccine coverage

Audio
3'4"
© UNICEF/Julia Kochetova

News in Brief 8 April 2022

  • Ukraine: condemnation for deadly train station missile strike

  • Ceasefires needed urgently across Ukraine, say aid teams

  • Skyrocketing food prices, warns FAO

  • Sahel and West Africa face worst food and nutrition crisis in a decade

Audio
3'44"
© UNICEF/Vincent Tremeau

News in Brief 7 April 2022

  • Ukraine war linked to ‘massive malnutrition crisis’ affecting millions in other emergencies

  • DR Congo violence against children must stop, demands UNICEF chief

  • Digital innovation quadrupled from 2000 - 2020: WIPO report

Audio
3'41"
© FAO/Luis Tato

News in Brief 6 April 2022

  • Ukraine: UNESCO condemns killing of film director Mantas Kvedaravicius

  • COVID deaths and infections continue to fall globally

  • Africa faces rising climate-linked health emergencies, warns WHO

Audio
2'47"
©UNICEF/ Esiey Leul

News in Brief 5 April 2022

  • Ukraine: UN’s Guterres joins call for Bucha killings probe

  • Sri Lanka authorities urged to respect freedom of expression – OHCHR

  • First aid convoy in months reaches Ethiopia’s Tigray – WFP

Audio
2'53"