News in Brief

A mother and her child in the Haji camp for internally displaced people in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
© UNICEF Afghanistan

News in Brief 17 August 2021

17 August 2021
News in Brief
  • UN agencies urge Taliban to make good on promises to protect vulnerable
  • Côte d’Ivoire begins Ebola vaccinations of high-risk populations
  • UN migration agency urges support for aid response in Mozambique 
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Haiti was struck on Saturday by a deadly 7.2-magnitude earthquake that left hundreds dead and countless others injured. (file)
MINUJUSTH/Logan Abassi

News in Brief 16 August 2021

16 August 2021
News in Brief
  • Security Council meets to discuss Afghanistan crisis
  • Rescue and relief efforts continue in quake-hit Haiti 
  • Palestinian refugees in dire conditions amid southern Syria clashes: UNRWA
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A mother and her child in the Haji camp for internally displaced people in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
© UNICEF Afghanistan

News in Brief 13 August 2021

13 August 2021
News in Brief
  • Fast-moving Afghanistan crisis ‘has hallmarks of humanitarian catastrophe'
  • UN health agency WHO urges support for new COVID-19 origins studies
  • Widespread DRCongo sexual abuse alert from UNHCR
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3'21"
A wildfire burns in a national park in Oregon, USA.
Unsplash/Marcus Kauffman

News in Brief 12 August 2021

12 August 2021
News in Brief
  • UN weather agency WMO seeks to confirm 48.8C ‘record’ heat spike in Sicily
  • Afghanistan seeks spike in people fleeing amid Taliban advance
  • 3 new COVID-19 drugs picked for latest #Solidarity trials: WHO
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A Somali resident sells meat at a market in Hudur, where food shortages continue to cause suffering.
UN Photo/Tobin Jones

News in Brief 11 August 2021

11 August 2021
News in Brief
  • Somali hunger crisis leaves 800,000 children on the brink
  • Human rights protection call for Yezidi activist in Armenia
  • Race is on to stop deadly Marburg virus in its tracks: WHO
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More than five million Afghans are displaced internally, including these families in Herat.
IOM/Mohammed Muse

News in Brief 10 August 2021

10 August 2021
News in Brief
  • Afghanistan emergency: Bachelet condemns floggings, violations by Taliban
  • Tigray food aid needs to step up fast, warns WFP
  • UNHCR reaches Eritreans stranded in Tigray camps
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Ice sheets in Jökulsárlón, Iceland.
Unsplash/Roxanne Desgagnés

News in Brief 9 August 2021

9 August 2021
News in Brief
  • 'Code red for humanity' in new UN global heating report
  • Nagasaki survivors 76 years on, fuelling 'powerful global movement'
  • 'Shocking' escalation in violence against Afghan children: UNICEF
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The UN humanitarian chief, Martin Griffiths (left) meets a couple whose house was destroyed in Hawzen, Tigray.
UNOCHA/Saviano Abreu

News in Brief 6 August 2021

6 August 2021
News in Brief
  • Tigray ceasefire more urgent than ever, says UN relief chief Griffiths
  • Myanmar’s third COVID-19 wave hitting like a ‘tsunami": WFP
  • Mali violence threatens country’s survival, UN expert warns
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Yangon, Myanmar.
Asian Development Bank/Lester Ledesma

News in Brief 5 August 2021

5 August 2021
News in Brief
  • ASEAN Myanmar mediator appointment welcomed by UN chief Guterres
  • COVID-19 vaccine shipments to Africa set to ramp up, says WHO
  • Refugee resettlement yet to recover from coronavirus restrictions
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The UN humanitarian chief, Martin Griffiths (left) meets Dr. Ekubay Hagos, the Director of the Hawzen Referral Hospital in the Tigray region of Ethiopia.
UNOCHA/Saviano Abreu

News in Brief 4 August 2021

4 August 2021
News in Brief
  • UN humanitarian chief ends Ethiopian mission amidst ‘heart-breaking’ devastation
  • COVID-19 data shows global rise for more than a month
  • UN report calls for urgent end to rights abuses in Central African Republic 
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