News in Brief

A mother waits to receive food for her child in drought-affected southern Madagascar.
© WFP/Fenoarisoa Ralaiharinony

News in Brief 30 April 2021

30 April 2021
News in Brief
  • Southern Madagascar on 'periphery' of famine: WFP
  • Top UN Middle East official calls for new and timely Palestinian elections
  • Chad: human rights office profoundly disturbed over violence against protesters
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An UNFICYP peacekeeper takes part in a routine patrol along the buffer zone in Cyprus.
UNFICYP/Katarina Zahorska

News in Brief 29 April 2021

29 April 2021
News in Brief
  • I’ll fight for every Cypriot, says UN chief, as informal talks end
  • UNFPA regret over UK $180 million funding cut
  • Hostilities flare in NE Syria forcing 20,000 to flee Qamishli city
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Liton village, in the commune of Begoua, north of Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic, where 2,000 men, women and children have fled their villages since the clashes of January 2021 in and around PK12.
MINUSCA / Herve Serefio

News in Brief 28 April 2021

28 April 2021
News in Brief
  • More than 370,000 children in Central African Republic displaced: UNICEF
  • UN rights experts urge Nigeria to release humanist Mubarak Bala
  • Latest COVID-19 data show cases rising for ninth week in a row
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Secretary-General António Guterres (right) meets Turkish Cypriot Leader Ersin Tatar (left) during the Informal 5+1 Meeting on Cyprus.
UN Photo/Jean Marc Ferré

News in Brief 27 April 2021

27 April 2021
News in Brief
  • UN chief ‘realistic’ about Cyprus informal talks in Geneva
  • Key workers need more protections in COVID era: ILO
  • Myanmar expert appeals for junta head to honour ceasefire pledge
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A health care worker prepares to administer a COVID-19 vaccine in Brazil.
PAHO/Karina Zambrana

News in Brief 26 April 2021

26 April 2021
News in Brief
  • Mass vaccination bid unveiled by UN and partners
  • Cyprus delegates head to Geneva for fresh talks
  • UN stands with Iraqi hospital blaze victims and families
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There were just 47 survivors when a boat carrying over 120 people, capsized off the Libyan coast on Thursday.
IOM/Hussein Ben Mosa

News in Brief 23 April 2021

23 April 2021
News in Brief
  • 130 drown after shipwreck off Libyan coast
  • UN convoy delivers vital aid across Ukraine contact line
  • More than a million Tigray displaced in desperate need
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A grandmother washes vegetables to prepare a meal at her home in Myanmar’s Shan state. (file photo)
UNICEF/Kaung Htet

News in Brief 22 April 2021

22 April 2021
News in Brief
  • ‘Rising hunger and desperation’ in Myanmar, warns WFP
  • COVID jabs from UN-partnered COVAX scheme arrive in Syria
  • Climate change disasters cause twice as much displacement as conflict, violence: UNHCR
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George Floyd, an African American, was killed after being restrained by police in the United States.
UN News/Daniel Dickinson

News in Brief 21 April 2021

21 April 2021
News in Brief
  • Michelle Bachelet on ‘momentous’ guilty verdict in George Floyd case
  • More than 5.2 million cases of COVID-19 infection in a week: WHO
  • A malaria-free future is possible: Guterres
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A seven-month-old baby displaced with his mother due to conflict in Tigray eats a high energy biscuit to boost his nutrition levels.
© UNICEF/Esiey Leul Kinfu

News in Brief 20 April 2021

20 April 2021
News in Brief
  • UNICEF reports on conditions inside stricken Tigray region
  • WFP secures access to feed 1.5 million children in Venezuela
  • Central African Republic clashes force thousands across border to Chad
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Swedish youth climate activist, Greta Thunberg, at a demonstration calling for global action to combat climate change in New York in September 2019.
© UNICEF/Radhika Chalasani

News in Brief 19 April 2021

19 April 2021
News in Brief
  • Judicial independence weakened and under threat in Guatemala: rights expert
  • UK’s racism and ethnic difference report ‘could fuel discrimation’
  • Greta Thunberg joins forces with UN for COVID-19 busting scheme
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