Food distribution in Pieri, South Sudan, where WFP is assisting 29,000 people, of whom 6,600 are children under five. (5 February 2019)

WFP/Gabriela Vivacqua

News in Brief 14 June 2019

14 June 2019

South Sudanese facing famine in all but name, warns UN food agency
Amid Sudan protest uncertainty, Darfur is still in crisis: OCHA
5G technology jeopardizes forecasting and early warning alerts, say UN weather experts

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Paula, 14 months, plays with her parents, outside their apartment.

UNICEF/Sokol

News in Brief 13 June 2019

13 June 2019

Guterres strongly condemns latest attack on oil tankers in Gulf
‘Heated clashes’ lead to 17 deaths in Darfur; AU-UN Mission launches investigation
UNICEF report ranks the best and worst ‘family-friendly’ nations

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Protesters gather in front of the headquarters of the Sudanese army in the capital, Khartoum. (11 April 2019)

Masarib/Ahmed Bahhar

News in Brief 12 June 2019

12 June 2019

Sudan sliding into ‘human rights abyss’, warn UN independent experts
Key overseas investment data show slide for third year in a row
“Final push” at ILO summit to make child labour a thing of the past

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Workers maintain the thermal power station at Takoradi, Ghana.

World Bank/Jonathan Ernst

News in Brief 11 June 2019

11 June 2019

UN Security Council offers Yemen Special Envoy ‘their full support’
Macron leads EU-wide minimum wage call as Merkel, Medvedev warn of global injustice
UN human rights chief Bachelet hails Botswana decision decriminalizing same-sex relationships

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FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva. Symposium on the Future of Food. Opening Session. FAO headquarters.

©FAO/Giuseppe Carotenuto

News in Brief 10 June 2019

10 June 2019

UN report issues ‘declaration of digital interdependence’
Concern, as tensions rise over Iranian nuclear issue
Future food systems centre stage at Rome symposium

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Detainees at a detention centre in Tripoli, Libya, waiting for safe settlement supported by UNHCR. Here, a 19-year-old Eritrean girl talks to a UNOCHA staff member, while waiting her turn to get on the bus for transit to the UNHCR gathering center. She will then be flown to Niger to a safe settlement supported by UNHCR.

UNOCHA/Giles Clarke

News in Brief 7 June 2019

7 June 2019

Libya’s migrants and refugees with TB ‘left to die’ in detention centres
OHCHR on Australia probe in national broadcaster
Hospitals, schools under ‘near daily attack’ in Syria’s north-west: UN humanitarians
UN human rights experts call for independent probe into Philippines violations

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Women at a camp for displaced people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo discuss the prevention of sexually transmitted infections like HIV. (file 2014)

© UNHCR/Brian Sokol

News in Brief 6 June 2019

6 June 2019

More than one million sexually transmitted infections occur every day: WHO
UNICEF reopens thousands of schools in Iraq, but situation ‘remains bleak’
Global food prices continue to rise

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The NGO Samaritans Purse builds an Ebola Treatment Unit in Komanda, Ituri province in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in January 2019.

WHO/Lindsay Mackenzie

News in Brief 4 June 2019

4 June 2019

Vital food crops destroyed in Syria amid ongoing escalation in Idlib, Hama
Libya’s detention centres ‘filling up faster than UN can evacuate most vulnerable’
WHO laments Ebola toll citing insecurity

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A newborn baby is getting a bath by it's grandmother at the UNICEF supported maternity ward in the POC in Malakal, South Sudan. .

UNICEF

News in Brief 3 June 2019

3 June 2019

Catastrophic’ healthcare costs that put mothers and newborns at risk
UNESCO chief condemns journalist killing in Chad
Canada exhibition set on awakening need for sustainability

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