There were just 47 survivors when a boat carrying over 120 people, capsized off the Libyan coast on Thursday.

IOM/Hussein Ben Mosa

News in Brief 23 April 2021

23 April 2021

130 drown after shipwreck off Libyan coast
UN convoy delivers vital aid across Ukraine contact line
More than a million Tigray displaced in desperate need

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A grandmother washes vegetables to prepare a meal at her home in Myanmar’s Shan state. (file photo)

UNICEF/Kaung Htet

News in Brief 22 April 2021

22 April 2021

‘Rising hunger and desperation’ in Myanmar, warns WFP
COVID jabs from UN-partnered COVAX scheme arrive in Syria
Climate change disasters cause twice as much displacement as conflict, violence: UNHCR

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George Floyd, an African American, was killed after being restrained by police in the United States.

UN News/Daniel Dickinson

News in Brief 21 April 2021

21 April 2021

Michelle Bachelet on ‘momentous’ guilty verdict in George Floyd case
More than 5.2 million cases of COVID-19 infection in a week: WHO
A malaria-free future is possible: Guterres

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A seven-month-old baby displaced with his mother due to conflict in Tigray eats a high energy biscuit to boost his nutrition levels.

© UNICEF/Esiey Leul Kinfu

News in Brief 20 April 2021

20 April 2021

UNICEF reports on conditions inside stricken Tigray region
WFP secures access to feed 1.5 million children in Venezuela
Central African Republic clashes force thousands across border to Chad

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3'7"

Swedish youth climate activist, Greta Thunberg, at a demonstration calling for global action to combat climate change in New York in September 2019.

© UNICEF/Radhika Chalasani

News in Brief 19 April 2021

19 April 2021

Judicial independence weakened and under threat in Guatemala: rights expert
UK’s racism and ethnic difference report ‘could fuel discrimation’
Greta Thunberg joins forces with UN for COVID-19 busting scheme

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A child walks in front of shelters at an IDP camp in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state in north-east Nigeria.

UNICEF/KC Nwakalor

News in Brief 16 April 2021

16 April 2021

Northeast Nigeria violence forces 65,000 to flee, humanitarians targeted
Papua New Guinea at “critical” moment in fight against COVID-19: WHO
Japan: Rights experts ‘deeply disappointed’ by Fukushima water discharge plan

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A scientist tests a sample suspected of containing a bacterial toxin.

CDC

News in Brief 15 April 2021

15 April 2021

Alert over shortage of new drugs for ‘world’s most dangerous bacteria’
COVID-19 cases rise for seventh consecutive week
Cheers in Iraq for winners of competition to rebuild Al-Nouri Mosque in Mosul: UNESCO

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The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) has supported women-friendly spaces in Sudan.

© UNFPA Sudan

News in Brief 14 April 2021

14 April 2021

‘Hundreds of millions of girls do not own their own bodies’ - UNFPA
Global drive against diabetes launched by WHO
Growing OPT settler violence amid growing impunity, say rights experts

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4'14"

IAEA International Remediation Expert Mission examines Reactor Unit 3 during a visit to TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power plant. Photo: IAEA/Giovanni Verlini

Photo: IAEA/Giovanni Verlini

News in Brief 13 April 2021

13 April 2021

Myanmar bloodshed could lead to new Syria: UN human rights chief
The IAEA offers support for Fukushima contaminated water discharge plan
Rights experts sound alert over Uganda election crackdown

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French astronaut Thomas Pesquet has been designated as a FAO Goodwill Ambassador.

© ESA/Nicole Fischer

News in Brief 12 April 2021

12 April 2021

UK armed forces legislation sparks warning from rights chief
Chagas Disease initiative to protect millions in Latin America
Human space flight could help find solutions to global hunger, 60 years on from Russian first

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