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A child with severe diarrhoea or cholera receives treatment at the Sab'een Hospital in Sana'a, Yemen,on 12 May 2017. © UNICEF/UN065873/Alzekri

Yemen’s cholera epidemic may be levelling off, says WHO

27 June 2017
General News

The number of suspected cholera cases in Yemen has dropped for the first time as efforts continue to resist the nationwide epidemic that UN agencies have described as the world's worst outbreak.

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Rice drying in Sri Lanka, March 2017. The country’s staple food production dropped by almost 40 percent from the last year's output.
FAO

Sri Lanka food production hit hard by drought, heavy rains: FAO

22 June 2017
General News

Nearly one million people in Sri Lanka are at risk of going hungry due to severe drought followed by heavy rainfall, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned on Thursday.

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Secretary-General António Guterres (left) meets with President Emomali Rahmon of the Republic of Tajikistan.
Nakib Murodov

National efforts vital to ensure effective implementation of Global Goals, UN chief says in Tajikistan

12 June 2017
Highlighting the integrated, indivisible and universal nature of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has urged all stakeholders around the world to work together to ensure the promises of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development are brought to life.
View of downtown Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan.
World Bank/Shynar Jetpissova

Inclusive development 'best form of preventing conflict,' UN chief tells Central Asia summit

9 June 2017
Secretary-General António Guterres today stressed the importance of partnership between the United Nations and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in achieving global development goals and combating some of today's key threats to peace and security, such as terrorism.
In the wake of Cyclone Mora, flood waters flattened many homes in this village in Kalutara, Sri Lanka.
IOM

“Fabric” of Sri Lanka torn apart by deadly storm: UNICEF

7 June 2017
General News

Much of Sri Lanka’s infrastructure has been torn apart by the deadly Cyclone Mora which brought floods and mudslides in its wake at the end of May.

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