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Tuesday’s Daily Brief: Eye health, UN’s financial crisis, progress in Mali and South Sudan, human rights in Australia

8 October 2019
Health

Tuesday’s top stories: Global need for eye care is set to increase ‘dramatically’; work and reforms of the UN ‘at risk’; progress on Mali security; South Sudan peace accord anniversary; Rights chief Bachelet urges rollback on Australia migration policies; and an interview with Maha Mamo, living proof of why statelessness needs to end worldwide.

MINUSMA/Gema Cortes

Some progress made towards security in Mali, but still a long way to go, Security Council hears

8 October 2019
Peace and Security

Some progress has been made towards restoring peace and stability in Mali as outlined in a fragile 2015 peace deal, yet sustainable peace developments are not happening fast enough, the Security Council heard on Tuesday. 

MINUSMA/Harandane Dicko

Secretary-General condemns attacks on UN peacekeepers in Mali

6 October 2019
UN Affairs

The UN Secretary-General has strongly condemned two separate attacks on Sunday against the organization’s Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) which left one peacekeeper dead and four others injured.

MINUSMA/Sylvain Liecht

UN condemns deadly simultaneous terrorist attacks on military camps in Mali

2 October 2019
Peace and Security

The United Nations condemned on Wednesday, with “the utmost energy”, simultaneous terrorist attacks on military camps in central Mali, close to the border with Burkina Faso, that left dozens dead and scores missing.

UN Photo/Kim Haughton

Mali President outlines achievements and challenges since 2015 peace deal

25 September 2019
UN Affairs

A 2015 peace deal for Mali has led to a “progressive return of trust between parties”, President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta told the UN General Assembly on Wednesday evening.

WFP/Nihab Rahman

News in Brief 13 September 2019

13 September 2019
News in Brief
  • Monsoon rains flatten Rohingya shelters
  • 3.9 million in Mali need humanitarian help 
  • ‘Landmark’ malaria vaccine launches in Kenya 
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Friday's Daily Brief: Desertification summit, Dorian death toll rising, UN project eases Mali tensions, Yemen funding crisis, hope for Cameroon

6 September 2019
Climate Change

A recap of Friday’s main stories: Desertification solutions can ease other world woes; Dorian death toll expected to rise; UN moves to ease communal tensions in Mali; Yemen funding crisis threatens reproductive health nationwide; special report on countering terror in Cameroon.

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News in Brief 6 September 2019

6 September 2019
News in Brief
  • Yemen funding crisis threatens reproductive health nationwide 
  • Dorian death toll in Bahamas likely to rise, thousands still missing
  • UN initiative in Mali to ease communal tensions
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Monday’s Daily Brief: World Humanitarian Day, Afghan massacre aftermath, Venezuelans in Brazil, Yemen war update, and reconciliation in Mali

19 August 2019
Humanitarian Aid

Our main stories today: Women celebrated on World Humanitarian Day; Afghanistan bloodshed mars 100 years of independence; Brazil’s ‘exemplary’ response to Venezuelans; UN urges Yemen’s warring parties to down weapons; and UN expert calls for Mali reconciliation efforts.

MINUSMA/Gema Cortes

Support Mali reconciliation efforts ‘in whatever way possible’, urges UN expert

19 August 2019
Peace and Security

Reconciliation initiatives in central Mali, to bring together local leaders and end ongoing violence, have been welcomed by the UN Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Mali, Alioune Tine, who said on Monday that they should be supported “in whatever way possible.”