News in Brief

A child solider sits on a log during a ceremony to release children from an armed group in South Sudan, in 2018.
UNICEF/Sebastian Rich

News in Brief 19 February 2021

19 February 2021
News in Brief
  • Violence engulfs South Sudan, ‘Children all have guns’ 
  • Vital humanitarian air links at risk, humanitarian operations under threat, warns WFP
  • UN human rights office alarmed by ‘attacks’ on judicial independence in Haiti
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A health worker is disinfected in Conakry, Guinea during the Ebola outbreak in West Africa in 2015.
UNICEF/UNMEER Martine Perret

News in Brief 18 February 2021

18 February 2021
News in Brief
  • ‘Very high’ risk of Guinea’s Ebola outbreak spreading: WHO 
  • Call to end instrumentalization of aid for Syrians after 10 years of war:  Commission of Inquiry report 
  • UN chief condemns attack on school in Nigeria 
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Daily sanitizing takes place inside a railway station in Cairo, Egypt.
IMF/Roger Anis

News in Brief 17 February 2021

17 February 2021
News in Brief
  • UNICEF chief calls for equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines for most vulnerable 
  • COVID infections register 16 % fall worldwide in a week, variants spreading: WHO 
  • ‘Extreme food insecurity’ threatens Somalia, warns FAO 
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Urban life. Region of Mawlamyaingyune. Report from Myanmar, May 2013.
ILO/Marcel Crozet

News in Brief 16 February 2021

16 February 2021
News in Brief
  • Myanmar: ‘World is watching’, UN Special Envoy tells military
  • Atrocities in eastern DR Congo complicate work of tackling new Ebola outbreak 
  • Desperate daily quest for food stalks people of South Sudan   
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Journalists at an event in Kabul, to mark the Afghan National Journalists Day (March 2019), in support of media freedom and solidarity with journalists. Reporters have frequently been targeted during the Afghan conflict.
UNAMA/Fardin Waezi

News in Brief 15 February 2021

15 February 2021
News in Brief
  • Afghanistan: 65 media workers, rights defenders killed since 2018
  • Three die in Ebola outbreak in southern Guinea   
  • WTO appoints first female and first African leader
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Children gather under the house they have fled to after being displaced due to the war and conflict.
© UNICEF

News in Brief 12 February 2021

12 February 2021
News in Brief
  • Human Rights Council hears call for immediate release of Myanmar’s Suu Kyi 
  • Constellation’ of post-COVID symptoms will impact global healthcare, says WHO 
  • Starvation risk for Yemen’s children threatens 400,000 without urgent treatment: UN agencies 
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Antonina, 58, was struggling to breathe and had a high fever by the time she realized she had contracted COVID-19. Oxygen concentrators supplied by UNICEF to Ukraine, helped her fight the disease.
UNICEF

News in Brief 11 February 2021

11 February 2021
News in Brief
  • COVID: Using AstraZeneca vaccine is ‘right thing to do’ for everyone: WHO 
  • COVID numbers are still too high in Europe, warns WHO regional director 
  • Remove activists from ‘terrorist list’, urge UN-appointed independent experts 
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The city skyline of Yangon, Myanmar, at sunset.
Unsplash/Anjani Kumar

News in Brief 10 February 2021

10 February 2021
News in Brief
  • Myanmar crisis: following orders is no defence for brutality, says rights expert  
  • East Asian countries led economic recovery in last quarter of 2020 
  • WHO and UNICEF chiefs urge vaccine solidarity to end COVID 
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A woman with an umbrella walks in the rain in a field. To the left is a rainbow. Photo: WMO
World Meteorological Organization

News in Brief 9 February 2021

9 February 2021
News in Brief
  • Latest LaNiña report suggests warmer, wetter months to come - WMO
  • 2.5 billion people in almost 130 countries lack access to COVID vaccine
  • Myanmar: UN country office expresses strong concern at use of force against protesters
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Rescue efforts are on after part of a Himalayan glacier broke away in India’s Uttarakhand province on Sunday, unleashing a torrent of water, rock and debris downstream.
UNDP India

News in Brief 8 February 2021

8 February 2021
News in Brief
  • UN stands ready to support relief, in aftermath of deadly India flash floods 
  • Refugee chief Filippo Grandi urges regularization of displaced Venezuelans 
  • Rights experts insist foreign nationals should be returned from Syria camps 
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