News in Brief

The humanitarian response for millions of Venezuelans in need continues to be scaled up. (October 2019)
OCHA/Gemma Cortes

News in Brief 15 November 2019

15 November 2019
News in Brief
  • ‘Deadliest year yet’: UN warns over migration deaths in Americas
  • DRC Ebola infection rate drop is ‘encouraging’ news: WHO
  • Central African Republic: 20,500 displaced by unseasonal, heavy rains in Bangui
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2'56"
A latrine emptier is lifted out of a pit in Bangalore, India.
WaterAid/CS Sharada Prasad

News in Brief 14 November 2019

14 November 2019
News in Brief
  • Sanitation workers shunned, wellbeing threatened, says UN health agency
  • Mosquito sterilization to stem diseases
  • UN’s highest court set to hear genocide case against Myanmar
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2'32"
Destruction after the targeting of a residential multistory building in Gaza city, November 2018.
OCHA/Muthana El Najjar

News in Brief 13 November 2019

13 November 2019
News in Brief
  • 'Indiscriminate’ rocket fire in Israel-Gaza ‘must stop immediately’
  • $1.35 billion humanitarian gap for fleeing Venezuelans
  • Diabetes cases nearly doubling, UN chief urges more action ahead of World Day
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3'24"
Wildfires have broken out across Queensland and New South Wales in Australia.
Queensland Fire and Emergency Services

News in Brief 12 November 2019

12 November 2019
News in Brief
  • Australia wildfires: ‘Get out’ if you can, warn UN weather experts  
  • UN health agency welcomes Ebola vaccine approval  
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3'59"
Protesters on the streets of La Paz, Bolivia.
UN Bolivia/Patricia Cusicanqui

News in Brief 11 November 2019

11 November 2019
News in Brief
  • UN chief appeals for respect for diplomatic missions in Bolivia
  • Experts concerned about women and children in camps in Syria and Iraq 
  • New FAO forest project to tackle climate change 
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3'30"
In Binnish in the Syrian Arab Republic, internally displaced people from Idlib live in a destroyed school while a tanker provides them with water that children transport with small containers.
© UNICEF/Omar Haj Kadour

News in Brief 8 November 2019

8 November 2019
News in Brief
  • Hundreds of thousands of civilians at risk in Syria amid ongoing violence 
  • Egypt: ‘Credible evidence’ that ‘brutal’ prison conditions prompted Morsi’s death, thousands more at risk 
  • 60,000 young refugees and migrants who arrived in Italy alone lack support   
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4'30"
John Bosco Ntaganda (center) has been sentenced to 30 years’ imprisonment.
ICC

News in Brief 7 November 2019

7 November 2019
News in Brief
  • ICC sentences DR Congo warlord to 30 years
  • UN chief calls for ‘meaningful dialogue’ in Iraq to end wave of protests
  • Montreal Protocol in the food chain
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3'15"
Pierre Krähenbühl, UNRWA Commissioner-General, launches the 2017 UNRWA emergency response to the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Syria crises, Palais des Nations. 9 January 2017. UN Photo/Violaine Martin
z

News in Brief 6 November 2019

6 November 2019
News in Brief
  • Palestine refugee agency chief steps down amidst mismanagement probe  
  • Sudan cholera campaign moves to protect Khartoum state 
  • Pakistani actress Mahira Khan named UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador 
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3'38"
New ITU data reveal growing Internet uptake but a widening digital gender divide
ITU Graphic

News in Brief 5 November 2019

5 November 2019
News in Brief
  • Cameroon faces worsening humanitarian emergency
  • US-China trade war is a ‘lose-lose’ situation for them and the world, warn UN economists
  • Internet use and access is improving, but digital gender gap is growing: ITU
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3'32"
(June 2019)
© OCHA/Halldorsson

News in Brief 4 November 2019

4 November 2019
News in Brief
  • India’s New Delhi choking on record levels of smog
  • UNICEF urges governments to repatriate children stranded in Syria 
  • Council deeply concerned over political developments unfolding in Guinea-Bissau 
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4'16"