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People gather at the Nasser hospital in Khan Younis n the south of the Gaza Strip.
© UNDP PAPP/Abed Zagout

News in Brief 7 February 2024

News in Brief
  • Gaza war enters fifth month amid fears for hospital under siege UNRWA 
  • Sudan appeal launches for war victims left with nothing UNOCHA 
  • Ukraine: top UN aid official denounces attacks on public places
Audio Duration
3'31"
A health worker cares for patients in a cholera treatment centre in rural Malawi.
© UNICEF

News in Brief 6 February 2024

News in Brief
  • Gaza: War crimes fears over Israeli ground invasion of Rafah
  • Thousands still struggling one year on from Syria-Turkïye earthquakes
  • Vaccine push underway in southern Africa amid unprecedented cholera spike 

 

Audio Duration
4'41"
UNICEF are collaborating with tech companies to make digital products safer for children.
© UNICEF/Karel Prinsloo

News in Brief 5 February 2024

News in Brief
  • Gaza: Northern aid push frustrated as regional tensions rise 
  • Top rights experts spotlight deepening Sudan crisis 
  • Digital platforms and AI ‘facilitating’ child abuse, warns Special Rapporteur 
Audio
4'32"
Sudanese refugees stand outside their home at the Kurmuk transit centre in the Benishangul-Gumuz region of northwestern Ethiopia.
© UNHCR/Tiksa Negeri

News in Brief 2 February 2024

News in Brief
  • Gaza: Rafah now a ‘pressure cooker of despair’ as exodus south continues 
  • Sudan war leaves 90 per cent of country’s most vulnerable going hungry 
  • Taliban dress code arrests of women and girls must end, say top rights experts
Audio
4'1"
Palestinians queue for food in the rain at a shelter in Deir Al-Balah, Gaza.
© UNRWA

News in Brief 1 February 2024

News in Brief
  • Gaza: Aid operations are in peril, UN agency warns amid funding crisis
  • 122 journalists killed while reporting on Gaza crisis, say top rights experts 
  • UN Human Rights chief appalled by alleged summary executions in Mali 
Audio
3'51"
Families gather at a site for displaced persons in Tabarre, Haiti. (file)
© UNICEF/Ndiaga Seck

News in Brief 31 January 2024

News in Brief
  • We cannot abandon the people of Gaza, say chiefs of UN agencies in appeal for UNRWA 
  • Torture used to obtain evidence in Hong Kong trial, claim rights experts 
  • At least 170,000 children displaced amid violence in Haiti: UNICEF 
Audio
3'57"
Migrants continue to make the perilous journey crossing the Mediterranean Sea to Europe. (file)
SOS Méditerranée/Flavio Gasper

News in Brief 29 January 2024

News in Brief
  • Gaza: ‘Simply not enough food’ to go around, warn UN humanitarians
  • UN migration agency alert over Mediterranean deaths spike
  • WHO hails global progress on eliminating dangerous fats from food shelves
Audio
4'24"
Members of the legal teams in the case of South Africa v. Israel at the International Court of Justice's delivery of its ruling in The Hague.
© ICJ-CIJ/ Frank van Beek

News in Brief 26 January 2024

News in Brief
  •  World court issues appeal calling for prevention of genocidal acts in Gaza
  • Gaza: UN rights office condemns ‘chaotic’ Israeli mass evacuation orders 
  • Sudan: Dire plight of more than 10 million displaced by conflict
  • Alabama execution comment – UN rights chief Türk
Audio
4'23"
An 11-year-old girl sits on the rubble of a house in Rafah, in the southern the Gaza Strip.
© UNICEF/Eyad El Baba

News in Brief 25 January 2024

News in Brief
  • Gaza: Top UN aid official calls for end to attacks on sites sheltering civilians 
  • $1.8 billion needed to restore Libyan communities after catastrophic flooding
  • Stigma and shame still surround leprosy victims, warn top rights experts 
Audio
4'6"