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UN Secretary-General António Guterres (centre) meets students at an UNWRA school in Amman, Jordan.
United Nations

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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Gaza Strip. A woman cooks flat bread in a clay built oven the Al-Qastal School.
© WFP/Arete/Abood al Sayd

News in Brief 22 March 2024

News in Brief
  • Gaza: UN aid team reaches stricken north, confirms ‘shocking’ disease and hunger 
  • Mass grave found in Libya highlights migrant horror, says UN migration agency
  • Aid ramps up to Mozambique communities impacted by tropical storm Filipo 
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E-waste
ITU

News in Brief 21 March 2024

News in Brief
  • Amid ongoing strife in Gaza and Ukraine, UN chief reiterates peace call 
  • Sudan war could see 222,000 children die from malnutrition, says aid coordinator
  • Mobile phones called to order for part in 62 million tonnes of e-waste

 

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Protestors at the March of Peace and Independence in Minsk, Belarus (file)
Unsplash/Andrew Keymaster

News in Brief 20 March 2024

News in Brief
  • Gaza: Less than 1 in 2 UN aid missions allowed into northern zones this month 
  • M-pox deaths falling everywhere but Africa, says UN health agency expert panel 
  • Belarus opponents ‘increasingly oppressed and punished’: Human Rights Council

 

 

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WHO delivers essential medical supplies during a UN mission to Al-Awda hospital in northern Gaza.
© WHO

News in Brief 18 March 2024

News in Brief
  • Famine could happen ‘anytime’ in Gaza’s northern governorates, warn UN humanitarians 
  • Iran: Repression continues two years after nationwide protests, say rights investigators 
  • ‘Pandemic treaty’ deal enters final round of negotiations 

 

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A child flees from Wad Madani, Al Jazirah state east-central Sudan following armed clashes there. (file)
© UNICEF/Ahmed Elfatih Mohamdee

News in Brief 15 March 2024

News in Brief
  • I lost hope and will to live in Russian jail, says Ukraine prisoner of war 
  • Gaza: Nearly 23 million tonnes of debris ‘will take years to clear’
  • Sudan: hunger ‘pervasive’ in Khartoum streets, warns UNICEF

 

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Accessing water to grow crops is a constant concern for many farmers in southern Madagascar.
UN News/Daniel Dickinson

News in Brief 14 March 2024

News in Brief
  • Gaza: Aid missions risk being halted without security guarantees
  • Haiti crisis: UN mission announces airbridge to facilitate aid relief 
  • Human Rights Council: Climate crisis a principal factor in global hunger emergency
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A displaced child waits with his father at a food distribution point in Port Sudan.
© WFP/Abubaker Garelnabei

News in Brief 13 March 2024

News in Brief
  • Gaza: More children dead from war than from four years of global conflict 
  • Ukraine: Condemnation after Russian strike kills dozens in Dnipro region
  • With internal displacement at a record high, UN aid chief backs solutions 
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Open Arms vessel loaded with food and water and a dedicated crew ready to assist the most vulnerable in Gaza.
© Open Arms

News in Brief 12 March 2024

News in Brief
  • Gaza: Ceasefire now, urges UN Secretary-General on first day of Ramadan
  • WFP races to preposition aid in Chad for Sudan’s displaced
  • Rampant abuse of counter-terrorism laws globally, Human Rights Council hears
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