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Around 1.7 million people have been displaced in Gaza, some multiple times.
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News in Brief 22 May 2024

News in Brief
  • Gaza: Conflict in Rafah puts key relief supplies warehouses out of reach 
  • Geopolitical tensions threaten global trade, warns UN’s Amina Mohammed
  • Biodiversity breakdown alert: one million species under threat, says UNEP
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The UN estimates that over 810,000 people have fled Rafah in the past two weeks.
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News in Brief 21 May 2024

News in Brief
  • Gaza: UN health agency’s Tedros calls for end to siege of Al-Awda hospital 
  • Ukraine: 16,000 uprooted by deadly Kharkiv escalation, humanitarians warn 
  • OCHA aid call for southern African nations suffering worst drought in 100 years #ElNiño
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The International Criminal Court is based in The Hague, Netherlands.
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News in Brief 20 May 2024

News in Brief
  • World court seeks arrest warrants for Hamas leaders and Israel’s Netanyahu
  • Gaza: Now 810,000 have fled Rafah amid ongoing Israeli operation
  • Yemen: human rights experts press for release of detained Bahá'ís 

 

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Children and their families stand near temporary shelters at an IDP camp in Zelingei town, central Darfur, Sudan.
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News in Brief 17 May 2024

News in Brief
  • UN rights chief says horrified by Sudan escalation as famine draws nearer
  • WHO: antimicrobial resistance an increasingly worrying threat
  • Ukraine’s civilians facing daily drone and glider bomb attacks: IOM
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UN Secretary-General António Guterres delivers remarks at the Summit of the League of Arab States in Manama-Bahrain.
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News in Brief 16 May 2024

News in Brief
  • Guterres repeats call to Israel to halt Rafah assault as aid stocks dwindle 
  • Global temperature record streak continues: WMO
  • Türk welcomes 20-year jail sentence for Gambian ex-minister for crimes against humanity
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A young boy looks out from inside a tent in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.
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News in Brief 15 May 2024

News in Brief
  • Gaza: underweight babies, heavy fighting and more displacement
  • Sudan alert as civilians remain trapped in war zone
  • Saudi Arabia violated rights of religious scholar, UN rights experts warn
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Forced displacement and military operations in Rafah are worsening an already catastrophic situation.
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News in Brief 14 May 2024

News in Brief
  • 450,000 Gazans now uprooted from Rafah as Israeli bombardment continues
  • Ukraine: UN rights office expresses deep concern over Russia’s eastern offensive 
  • Afghanistan flood disaster is not an anomaly, warns UN World Food Programme
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Displaced persons build new tents in Al-Mawasi area in central Gaza.
UN News / Ziad Taleb

News in Brief 13 May 2024

News in Brief
  • Rafah exodus reaches 360,000 as UN issues $2.8 billion aid appeal for Gaza, West Bank
  • Ukraine: aid teams warn as Russian offensive in Kharkiv heightens displacement fears
  • Countless lives at stake in Sudan’s El Fasher, warn UN aid teams
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Many families are living in temporary shelters in Rafah.
© UNOCHA/Ismael Abu Dayyah

News in Brief 9 May 2024

News in Brief
  • Gaza: 80,000 flee Rafah amid Israeli military escalation fears, say UN humanitarians 
  • Former Guantanamo Bay detainee faces re-victimisation in Algeria, right experts warn 
  • Early data on vaccine ‘patches’ is welcome news in battle against measles: WHO 
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