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A ground-breaking air quality measuring device unveiled in Nairobi, Kenya, by UNEP, is expected to cost up to 100 times less than existing solutions.
UNEP

UN environment agency unveils low-cost device for air quality monitoring

A ground-breaking air quality measuring device expected to cost up to 100 times less than existing solutions has the potential to “revolutionize” air quality measurement in developing countries and help prevent deaths from air pollution that claim 7 million lives each year, according to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
This building in Yemen was destroyed by airstrikes.
OCHA/P. Kropf

Yemen: UN warns of ‘untenable’ humanitarian situation and steep increase in civilian causalities

The UN human rights office said today it is alarmed by the steep increase in the number of civilian casualties in Yemen’s Taiz governorate in recent weeks, as well as by the “untenable” humanitarian situation which is being made worse by the blockage of supply routes into Taiz city by local “popular committees” affiliated with the Houthis.