Palestinians will continue their struggle to end Israeli occupation of their territory.
That’s what the representative of Palestine told reporters following the rejection by the Security Council or a resolution that set the deadline of 2017 for ending the occupation.
Late on Tuesday, the 15-member Council voted on a resolution that was submitted by Jordan.
Derrick Mbatha reports.
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Voting for the independence of South Sudan remains a wise decision regardless of the turmoil that has followed, the head of a private media company in the country has said.
The African nation has suffered a year of internal conflict as government forces continue to battle rebels loyal to a deposed former Vice-President, forcing close to 2 million people to flee their homes.
Over 100,000 of them have sought refuge in the bases of the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS).
Renovations to the UN’s European headquarters in Geneva estimated at $850 million have moved a step closer after member states agreed to allocate $28 million to planning the work.
The General Assembly vote follows a warning from Olivier Zehnder, the Swiss deputy permanent representative at the UN, that the work was “urgent”.
The pre-works budget will be used to assess building requirements at the Palais des Nations, parts of which date back to 1929.
Military and police components with the UN in South Sudan (UNMISS) have destroyed weapons confiscated from displaced persons living in camps.
Machetes and bayonets are among some of the weapons seized in Jonglei State.
According to latest UN figures, there are 1.4 million displaced within the country, and another half a million taking refuge in neighbouring countries.
More than 97,000 people remain in compounds of UNMISS in very difficult conditions.
The Ebola epidemic in Liberia has put children at high risk of malnutrition because of food shortages and diminished household incomes, says the UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF.
An estimated 170,000 people in the West African nation are severely food insecure; by March 2015, the number could reach 300,000.
Guinea and Sierra Leone, the other two countries stricken by the epidemic, are also facing food insecurity.
Jocelyne Sambira has the story.
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Full food rations for nearly 500,000 people in two refugee camps in Kenya will be resumed in January, thanks to a donation of US$45 million.
That announcement was made on Tuesday by the World Food Programme (WFP) which distributes food twice a month to the refugees in Dadaab and Kakuma refugee camps in northern Kenya.
The agency was forced to reduce the size of their rations by half in November due to insufficient funding.
To find out more about this Derrick Mbatha spoke on the line to Nairobi with WFP’s Challiss McDonough.
A district by district strategy is needed to fight Ebola in Liberia, according to the head of the UN Mission for Emergency Ebola Response (UNMEER).
Anthony Banbury spoke after meeting with Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and visiting an area which has suffered from the outbreak.
Ebola has killed approximately 6,900 people in West Africa, mainly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
The more people know about the harmful effects of overusing antibiotics, the less they might use them for treating a common cold, a medical researcher says.
Antibiotic resistance happens when bacteria change or mutate so that antibiotics no longer work in people who need them to treat infections, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
The agency calls it a “major threat to public health” and notes that common infections and minor injuries that were treatable for decades could kill again.
A new environmentally-friendly sterilizing machine is helping Sierra Leone to safely dispose of contaminated equipment and infectious waste generated in treating Ebola patients.
The deadly disease has killed about, 6,900 people in West Africa, mainly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Known as an autoclave, the machine was designed under a project by the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF).
Derrick Mbatha reports.
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The re-opening of the Nile River to aid convoys has made an enormous difference in efforts to deliver food to conflict-affected states in South Sudan.
That’s according to the World Food Programme or WFP.
River transport of humanitarian goods across the border between Sudan and South Sudan largely stopped after the border’s closure following South Sudan’s independence in 2011.
Challiss McDonough explained to May Yaacoub why the re-opening of this critical supply line is so important to WFP.
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