News in Brief

Much of the mangrove forests on Cuba's coastline have deteriorated in recent decades.
UNDP Cuba

News in Brief 26 February 2021

26 February 2021
News in Brief
  • UN climate report a ‘red alert’ for the planet: Guterres 
  • People falling even further behind in COVID-19 crisis, says UN rights chief  
  • Condemnation over new attack on Nigerian school, hundreds of girls missing 
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A family walks along a highway overpass in Niamey, Niger.
© UNICEF/Hadiza Amadou

News in Brief 25 February 2021

25 February 2021
News in Brief
  • ECOWAS and UN strongly condemn electoral violence in Niger
  • UNICEF signs COVID-19 vaccine agreement with AstraZeneca
  • South Sudan: WHO supports polio vaccination campaign targeting 2.8 million children
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Staff unload the first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines distributed by COVAX at Kotoka International Airport in Accra, Ghana's capital.
© UNICEF/Francis Kokoroko/COVAX

News in Brief 24 February 2021

24 February 2021
News in Brief
  • Historic first as COVAX COVID vaccines reach Ghana
  • WHO announces COVID deaths drop 20% in a week worldwide 
  • Get with new tech, or risk falling further behind: UNCTAD
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On February 18, vaccination began in the department of Cundinamarca. The first 1,770 vaccines will be destined for health personnel working in 22 intensive care units in 13 municipalities.
OPS/Karen Gonzalez

News in Brief 23 February 2021

23 February 2021
News in Brief
  • First wave of COVID-19 vaccine syringes start journey to Maldives
  • Oxygen shortage hits 500,000 virus sufferers in developing countries 
  • ‘Disturbing spike’ in Afghan civilian casualties linked to peace talks  
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Goma, capital of North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
MONUSCO/Abel Kavanagh

News in Brief 22 February 2021

22 February 2021
News in Brief
  • Coups have no place in world today, UN chief tells Myanmar military 
  • Rights chief Bachelet insists we have the chance to build back better after pandemic 
  • Condemnation for deadly attack on UN humanitarians in DR Congo  
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A child solider sits on a log during a ceremony to release children from an armed group in South Sudan, in 2018.
UNICEF/Sebastian Rich

News in Brief 19 February 2021

19 February 2021
News in Brief
  • Violence engulfs South Sudan, ‘Children all have guns’ 
  • Vital humanitarian air links at risk, humanitarian operations under threat, warns WFP
  • UN human rights office alarmed by ‘attacks’ on judicial independence in Haiti
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A health worker is disinfected in Conakry, Guinea during the Ebola outbreak in West Africa in 2015.
UNICEF/UNMEER Martine Perret

News in Brief 18 February 2021

18 February 2021
News in Brief
  • ‘Very high’ risk of Guinea’s Ebola outbreak spreading: WHO 
  • Call to end instrumentalization of aid for Syrians after 10 years of war:  Commission of Inquiry report 
  • UN chief condemns attack on school in Nigeria 
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Daily sanitizing takes place inside a railway station in Cairo, Egypt.
IMF/Roger Anis

News in Brief 17 February 2021

17 February 2021
News in Brief
  • UNICEF chief calls for equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines for most vulnerable 
  • COVID infections register 16 % fall worldwide in a week, variants spreading: WHO 
  • ‘Extreme food insecurity’ threatens Somalia, warns FAO 
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Urban life. Region of Mawlamyaingyune. Report from Myanmar, May 2013.
ILO/Marcel Crozet

News in Brief 16 February 2021

16 February 2021
News in Brief
  • Myanmar: ‘World is watching’, UN Special Envoy tells military
  • Atrocities in eastern DR Congo complicate work of tackling new Ebola outbreak 
  • Desperate daily quest for food stalks people of South Sudan   
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Journalists at an event in Kabul, to mark the Afghan National Journalists Day (March 2019), in support of media freedom and solidarity with journalists. Reporters have frequently been targeted during the Afghan conflict.
UNAMA/Fardin Waezi

News in Brief 15 February 2021

15 February 2021
News in Brief
  • Afghanistan: 65 media workers, rights defenders killed since 2018
  • Three die in Ebola outbreak in southern Guinea   
  • WTO appoints first female and first African leader
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