Africa

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has scaled up their cholera vigilance in Khartoum, Sudan.
WHO Sudan

Cholera prevention efforts underway to protect millions in Sudan’s Khartoum state

6 November 2019
Health

A campaign has got underway to prevent the spread of a deadly cholera outbreak to Sudan’s populous Khartoum state, home to more than eight million people, UN medics said on Wednesday.

A child attends class at a UNICEF-supported government primary school, in Douala, Cameroon.
© UNICEF/Tanya Bindra

Tuesday’s Daily Brief: Cameroon crisis deepens, Tsunami Awareness Day, online gender gap, Somalia floods leave children vulnerable

5 November 2019
Climate and Environment

A recap of Tuesday’s top stories: Humanitarian needs in Cameroon up 15-fold from 2017; UN risk reduction chief calls for more resilient cities; Somalia’s floods put 200,000 children at risk; Internet use study reveals growing gender gap; UN partners spotlight youth mental health. 

A child sits at her desk at a UNICEF-supported government primary school, in Douala, Cameroon.
© UNICEF/Tanya Bindra

Nearly two million Cameroonians face humanitarian emergency: UNICEF

5 November 2019
Humanitarian Aid

Ongoing violence in Cameroon’s northwest and southwest has created a fast-growing humanitarian emergency now affecting some 1.9 million people, a “15-fold increase since 2017”, UN humanitarians said on Tuesday.

UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed in Mogadishu with female peacekeepers of the UN Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM).(23 October 2019)
UNSOM/John Arigi

Unity, regional cooperation and international support needed for Horn of Africa to develop sustainably 

4 November 2019
Peace and Security

The road ahead “will not be easy” for the Horn of Africa, UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed said on Monday, briefing the Security Council on her Joint Solidarity Mission with the African Union (AU) at the end of October. 

Flags remain at half-mast outside IOM South Sudan’s office in Juba
IOM South Sudan

UN migration agency appeals to South Sudan group to free volunteer worker and child

1 November 2019
Health

The UN migration agency appealed on Friday for the immediate liberation of a volunteer and child who’ve been missing since a gun battle in South Sudan at the weekend that claimed the lives of three agency workers.

A giant tortoise makes its way to the water's edge on a beach on Curieuse Island, a Seychelles National Park.
Seychelles Tourism Board/Ennio Maffei

FROM THE FIELD: ‘Blue’ finance flows in the Seychelles

28 October 2019
Climate and Environment

Protecting marine areas from over-exploitation and providing the people who have traditionally lived off the sea with a sustainable alternative livelihood does not come cheap, but in the Seychelles, a focus on financial instruments is making that task easier. 

UN peacekeepers in the Central African Republic patrol Ouham-Pendé in the northwest of the country.
MINUSCA/Leonel Grothe

Central African Republic: ‘Transform dreams of peace into reality’: mission chief tells Security Council

25 October 2019
Peace and Security

Updating the Security Council on the situation in the Central African Republic (CAR) on Friday, the head of the UN Mission in the country, MINUSCA, called on the country’s friends and partners, including the Council, to “transform the dreams of peace, prosperity and development of millions of Central Africans into a lasting reality”.

Kenyan troops serving with the UN Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) patrol the disputed area of Abyei, claimed by both Sudan and South Sudan.
UN Photo/Tim McKulka

‘Unique opportunity’ to resolve border dispute between Sudan, South Sudan

24 October 2019
Peace and Security

Sudan and neighbouring South Sudan “have never been closer” to reaching a sustainable peace with each other, and their own internal armed opposition groups, the head of UN peacekeeping told the Security Council on Thursday.

Riek Machar Leader of Sudan People’s Liberation Movement In-Opposition at a meeting with Security Council members in Juba, South Sudan
UN Photo/Isaac Billy

UN Security Council calls for South Sudan leaders to speed up action on peace deal

21 October 2019
Peace and Security

In a visit to South Sudan this past weekend, members of the UN Security Council urged leaders to expedite implementation of a 2018 peace agreement aimed at ending six years of ongoing conflict.

OHCHR spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani.
UN Multimedia

UN human rights office urges Egypt to immediately release detained protestors

18 October 2019
Human Rights

Authorities in Egypt are being urged by the UN human rights office, OHCHR,  to immediately release scores of citizens who have been arrested in connection with recent anti-government demonstrations in several cities.