development

News in Brief 20 September 2021

  • Getting sustainability back on track, only way to save planet: Guterres
  • Guterres condemns Yemen executions by Houthis  
  • R&D investment rose in many areas during COVID: UN report 
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FROM THE FIELD: Preparing for disaster in Nepal

The UN  is scaling up its efforts to help Nepal, which faces numerous natural threats, to become more resilient, minimize human casualties and preserve livelihoods.

UNDP responding to ‘cocktail of crisis’ in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique

Nearly 700,000 people have fled “a cocktail of crisis” in the Cabo Delgado province in northern Mozambique, where a three-year brutal insurgency has intensified amid grinding poverty, natural disasters and the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Monica Grayley spoke to Aboubacar Koulibaly, leader of an expert team from the UN Development Programme (UNDP) that is currently in Mozambique to increase support to people battered by the complex, multilayered crisis.

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