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Gaza: Polio vaccination campaign moves to southern areas

·September 6, 2024·2 min read

The campaign moved to southern areas of the Gaza Strip following the successful completion of the first phase in the centre of the enclave, thanks largely to pauses in the fighting. UNRWA along with partners provided the first dose of polio vaccine to children under 10 years old at the...

Gaza crisis: southern areas ‘bursting at seams’ amid new wave of bombing and displacement

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·December 27, 2023·1 min read

Locations in the north and south of the enclave were hit as Israeli ground forces also reportedly pushed into central areas, along with the firing of rockets by Palestinian armed groups into Israel, prompting concerns from the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, about the safety of civilians uprooted time...

Pakistan: 10 million deprived of safe drinking water in flood-affected areas

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·March 22, 2023·1 min read

The crisis has left families in the flood-affected areas with no choice but to use potentially contaminated water. “Safe drinking water is not a privilege, it is a basic human right”, said UNICEF Representative in Pakistan, Abdullah Fadil. “Yet, every day, millions of girls and boys in Pakistan are fighting...

Ethiopia: Northern aid access improving but some areas still hard to reach

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·February 3, 2023·1 min read

Associate Spokesperson Florencia Soto Niño told correspondents at the regular noon briefing in New York that aid distribution had expanded in the Afar, Amhara and Tigray regions, but some pockets remained that have not yet been accessed. Relief for 3.8 million people “Since the Cessation of Hostilities agreement in mid-November,...