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Destruction of a residential block in the Al-Shaboura neighborhood in the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip
UN News/Ziad Taleb

News in Brief 8 April 2024

News in Brief
  • Palestine UN membership in spotlight amid Rafah invasion fears 
  • Attacks on Ukrainian nuclear facilities ‘must cease immediately’: UN atomic watchdog
  • Healthcare ‘inaccessible’ for displaced people, warns UN migration agency 
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UN Secretary-General António Guterres briefs the media outside the Security Council on the situation in Gaza.
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

News in Brief 5 April 2024

News in Brief
  • Israel must allow ‘quantum leap’ in aid delivery UN chief urges, calling for change in military strategy
  • Sudan: UN food agency convoy reaches Darfurs for first time in months
  • Global deployment of rapid diagnostic tests to boost fight against cholera
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A child follows/watches the recovering of bodies from under the rubble of a house in the Al-Nasr neighborhood, east of the city of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.
UN News/Ziad Taleb

News in Brief 4 April 2024

News in Brief
  • Ukraine: Ambulance teams at 3 times greater risk of death and injury
  • Human Rights Council resolution demands further Iran violations probe
  • More than 700 attacks by Israeli settlers in occupied West Bank
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Footage of destruction of Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza, following the end of the latest Israeli siege. The World Health Organization (WHO) reiterated that hospitals must be respected and protected; they must not be used as battlefields.
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News in Brief 2 April 2024

News in Brief
  • Gaza: health system ‘barely surviving’ warns UN health agency chief
  • Ukrainians suffer Russia-imposed ‘violence, intimidation, and coercion’, Türk tells Human Rights Council 
  • Malawi drought affects nearly two million farming families 
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The access of UN-coordinated humanitarian deliveries to northern Gaza has been largely denied over the past months, leaving people with very limited means to survive.
© UNOCHA/Themba Linden

News in Brief 28 March 2024

News in Brief
  • Gaza: health system ‘barely surviving’ warns UN health agency chief
  • Sudan’s 24 million children have a right to live in peace: UNICEF 
  • Refugee agency launches $1.4 billion appeal for South Sudan 
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A family that lost their home to the floods transports what remains of their house by dugout canoe in the Far North of Cameroon. (file)
© UNHCR/Moise Amedje Peladai

News in Brief 27 March 2024

News in Brief
  • Gaza war: ‘Direct hits’ on more than 200 schools since Israeli bombing began 
  • 783 million people go hungry today but one-fifth of all food goes to waste 
  • Cameroon: vital aid assistance under threat, warn UNHCR, WFP 

 

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A father-of-six seeks safety for his family at a displacement site near Goma after his wife was killed by a bombing in Sake, North Kivu province. (file)
© UNHCR/Blaise Sanyila

News in Brief 26 March 2024

News in Brief
  • Gaza: ‘Double-digit’ number of children reported killed overnight
  • One in three migrant deaths linked to countries at war or with large refugee populations
  • Devastating humanitarian crisis in DR Congo: UNHCR
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UN Secretary-General António Guterres (centre) meets students at an UNWRA school in Amman, Jordan.
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News in Brief 25 March 2024

News in Brief
  • We must push for lasting peace in Gaza, UN chief insists, as starvation threat nears 
  • Deadly cholera infections spreading fast in Somalia, warn UN aid teams
  • Yemen conflict enters 10th year with 17 million-plus people in need of health aid
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