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World News in Brief: ‘Outrage’ over Black Sea attack, funding pledge to alleviate El Niño, breast cancer alert

·November 13, 2023·2 min read

Humanitarian Coordinator Denise Brown said in a statement that Wednesday’s attack came on the heels of a series of assaults that killed and inured civilians, destroyed grain supplies and damaged the historic Fine Arts Museum in the Ukrainian port city. “I share my condolences with the family of the killed...

Black Sea deal collapse sparks rise in global food prices: FAO

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·August 5, 2023·1 min read

The UN agency has issued its latest Food Price Index (FPI), which tracks the monthly international prices of cereals, vegetable oil, dairy, meat and sugar. The Index averaged 123.9 points in July, up 1.3 per cent from June, driven by an increase in vegetable oil and rice prices. End of a lifeline FAO’s Vegetable Oil...

Scourge of racism haunts Black women and girls seeking healthcare

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·July 12, 2023·1 min read

“The scourge of racism continues for Black women and girls in the Americas, many of whom are descendants of the victims of enslavement,” Natalia Kanem, Executive Director of the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), said in a news release. “Too often, Afrodescendent women and girls are abused and mistreated, their needs...

Black Sea Initiative exports top 30 million tonnes from Ukraine, as talks continue over renewal

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·May 14, 2023·1 min read

That was the message conveyed by the UN Humanitarian Affairs chief, Martin Griffiths, to a meeting held on Thursday in Istanbul, to discuss the future of the Initiative, with senior official from the signatories to the deal, Russia, and Ukraine, together with the UN and Türkiye, which also mediated the...

Black Sea Grain Initiative extended on deadline day

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·March 18, 2023·1 min read

The announcement was made in a Note to Correspondents, released by the UN Secretary-General’s spokesperson’s office on Saturday, which emphasized that the Initiative allows for the “facilitation of the safe navigation for the exports of grain and related foodstuffs and fertilizers, including ammonia, from designated Ukrainian seaports.” Following the invasion...

UN chief welcomes renewal of Black Sea Grain Initiative |

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·November 17, 2022·2 min read

More than 11.1 million tonnes of essential foodstuffs have been shipped as part of the agreement involving Türkiye, Ukraine, Russia and the United Nations, since it was signed on 22 July. ‘Deeply moved’ Speaking from Cairo, where Mr. Guterres was en route from the G20 summit in Bali to the...

Black Sea grain deal shipments on hold Wednesday, following Russia suspension |

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·November 1, 2022·2 min read

In the regular daily briefing to reporters in New York on Tuesday, UN Deputy Spokesperson, Farhan Haq, said the Ukrainian, Turkish and UN delegations that remain active in the deal, had reached agreement on the pause at the JCC, which is based in Istanbul. Russia declared that it was putting...

UN chief ‘deeply concerned’ by stalled Black Sea Grain Initiative |

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·October 30, 2022·1 min read

On Sunday, UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said, in a statement for the Secretary-General, that Mr. Guterres has decided to delay his departure for the Arab League Summit in Algiers by a day to focus on the issue. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in late February 2022, mountains of grains built...