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Children displaced by conflict in Sudan are now living in Atbara.
© UNICEF/Abdulazeem Mohamed

News in Brief 13 February 2024

News in Brief
  • Gazans ‘living in fear’ of Israeli assault on Rafah, warns top UN aid official
  • Senegal: UN rights office concern over suspended election 
  • People of Sudan facing ‘life or death’ situation: WHO
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Families forced to flee ongoing bombardment in Khan Younis to Rafah, where the population has already quadrupled.
© UNRWA

News in Brief 12 February 2024

News in Brief
  • Gaza: Relief over rescued hostages as Tedros warns of ‘ocean of need’
  • Economic progress must be linked to a ‘human rights economy’, say experts
  • 68,000 children affected by Nepal earthquake still need urgent assistance: UNICEF 
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Displaced women and children at an Internally Displaced People's area in West Darfur due to the fighting in Sudan.
© UNOCHA/Mohamed Khalil

News in Brief 9 February 2024

News in Brief
  • Gaza: UN health agency warns over continuing healthcare attacks
  • Sudan war leaves 700,000 children facing life-threatening malnutrition
  • Haiti’s people suffering ‘deepening human rights catastrophe’, warns Türk
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Food convoys travelling into Northern Gaza have been hit by shelling.
© UNRWA

News in Brief 8 February 2024

News in Brief
  • Gaza: UN’s top aid official reiterates extreme concern over Israeli ground offensive in Rafah 
  • ‘Debt caps’ needed to save developing countries from financial disaster: UNCTAD 
  • Mexico dreams: UN initiative offers hope for migrant workers in Mexico 
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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
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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 

 

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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 
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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
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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 
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