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News in Brief 26 April 2022

  • Ukraine war: UN chief arrives for talks in Moscow as ‘messenger of peace’

  • Healthcare attacks continue in Ukraine amid growing needs

  • Sand is not an infinite resource, countries’ development is at stake: UNEP

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News in Brief 22 April 2022

  • UN’s Bachelet condemns ‘horrors’ against Ukrainian civilians 

  • African nations gear up for boosted malaria vaccine roll-out WHO 

  • Israeli Defence Forces in rights spotlight for ‘unnecessary, indiscriminate’ violence 

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© UNICEF/Kate Klochko

News in Brief 19 April 2022

  • Ukraine: Aid agencies step up relief deliveries as humanitarian situation worsens

  • Guterres calls for calm in Middle East

  • Africa drought: low funding means only one in two people will be helped: FAO

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© UNOCHA/Christina Powell

News in Brief 13 April 2022

  • Ukraine; food and energy crisis: Countries must resist hoarding, says UN’s Guterres

  • Banditry in north-central Nigeria blamed for killings, displacement

  • Egypt in spotlight for ‘ongoing collective expulsions of Eritrean asylum seekers

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