News in Brief 19 January 2022
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2021 joins top 7 warmest years on record: WMO
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Afghanistan: 500,000 jobs lost since Taliban takeover
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Tonga volcano latest: evacuations continue, relief flights soon to resume
2021 joins top 7 warmest years on record: WMO
Afghanistan: 500,000 jobs lost since Taliban takeover
Tonga volcano latest: evacuations continue, relief flights soon to resume
$150 million released to help underfunded humanitarian emergencies
Tigray: aid operations ‘are about to grind to a halt’, warns WFP
Ending Sahel crisis must be focus of international community: UNHCR
UN’s Bachelet welcomes crimes of humanity verdict against Syrian officer
Africa’s fourth pandemic wave flattens out after six-week surge
Tigray: WHO chief Tedros decries blocked aid tactics
COVID-19: Global infections rose by 55 per cent in a week: WHO
Sudan attacks on medics, clinics, patients must stop: WHO
Former ‘Mr. Speed’ urges Zimbabwe to cut road deaths
Afghanistan: UN launches largest single country aid appeal ever
US saw 20 climate emergencies costing $1 billion-plus in 2021
Almost 10,000 people detained in Kazakhstan – OHCHR
Ethiopia: Relief teams suspend operations in northwest Tigray
Sudan: UN envoy announces talks with key civilian and military figures
For 25th year in a row, Greenland ice sheet shrinks
Relief teams fear worsening aftermath of Super Typhoon Rai
WHO Omicron variant is not ‘mild’, says Tedros
UN rights chief Bachelet appeals for calm in Kazakhstan
55 journalists killed in 2021, impunity still widespread: UNESCO
Cambodia: Arrests of strikers may breach human rights law, say experts
2021 food prices ‘sharply higher’ than 2020 - FAO