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Aid efforts in Gaza escalate, as risk from deadly unexploded ordnance grows

·January 30, 2025·3 min read

“Hope returns to Gaza, but it’s fragile,” said Corinne Fleischer, World Food Programme (WFP) Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa. “With open crossings and sustained efforts, Gaza’s recovery can take root,” she emphasised. The WFP has doubled its aid deliveries, bringing in 22,000 metric tons of food...

Sudan war becomes more deadly as ethnically motivated attacks rise

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·January 17, 2025·2 min read

His warning comes in the wake of reports that dozens were brutally killed in ethnically targeted attacks in Al Jazirah state in the southeast, and amid reports of an imminent battle for control of the country’s capital, Khartoum. The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and a rival military, the Rapid Support...

World News in Brief: Famine spreads in Sudan, deadly attack in Myanmar, Venezuela update

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·January 11, 2025·3 min read

The World Food Programme (WFP) provided lifesaving assistance to 7.8 million people, while the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reached nearly three million children with essential nutrition support. This was done in the face of an escalating crisis resulting from the brutal war between rival militaries which erupted in April 2023...

Gaza death toll passes 45,000 as UN school suffers new deadly strike

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·December 16, 2024·2 min read

Images taken at the school in Khan Younis showed the apparent impact point of one shell in a concrete upper floor where people had been living at the time of the attack late Sunday night. According to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, 13 people died and 48 were...

Syria escalation: Deadly attacks continue, healthcare and access compromised

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·December 3, 2024·3 min read

Renewed fighting last week led by the terrorist group Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and other armed factions has engulfed parts of Aleppo, Idlib and Hama, destabilising frontlines that had remained unchanged since 2020. UN human rights office (OHCHR) spokesperson Jeremy Laurence told reporters in Geneva of “a number of extremely...

World News in Brief: Mpox update, Haiti violence, deadly strikes in Ukraine, Pakistan attack condemned

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·November 23, 2024·3 min read

The UN agency declared in August that mpox raised the highest level of alarm under international health law following an increase in cases, mainly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and neighbouring countries. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus agreed with the committee’s advice and determined that the upsurge...

Lebanon: food insecurity ‘set to worsen’ amid deadly strikes

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·November 11, 2024·2 min read

The update from UN agencies also reported that Israeli strikes have left more than 3,100 people dead and over 13,800 injured since October last year. Turning to the hospitals in conflict areas – Tyre and Jbeil Bint, Marjeoun, Baabda, Lebanon Mount and Baalbek – eight are non-functional, nine are semi-functional and...

Deadly weather events show cost of climate inaction

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·November 8, 2024·6 min read

The context in which COP29 begins in Baku, Azerbaijan on November 11 is critical but not hopeless. A UN climate report released just days before the Conference confirmed that global average temperature rise is approaching 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, which would put the world on course for a catastrophic rise...

Potentially ‘deadly’ consequences could arise from Israel’s UNRWA ban: UNICEF

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·November 4, 2024·4 min read

The Israeli Parliament, known as the Knesset, adopted two bills on Monday banning UN Palestine refugee agency UNRWA from operating in its territory and prohibiting authorities from having any contact with it. “UNRWA is indispensable in delivering the urgent, life-saving assistance that 2.2 million people in Gaza urgently need,” UNICEF...

Deadly floods in Spain highlight need to cut greenhouse gas emissions

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·November 2, 2024·1 min read

The UN weather agency is highlighting the importance of early warning systems for all corners of the planet and reducing greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change. “The flooding that we’re seeing in Spain is just one of many, many, many, extreme weather and water-related disasters that have been taking...

UN renews call to protect civilians, as deadly Israeli strike hits close to key Beirut hospital

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·October 23, 2024·1 min read

The strike, which hit the densely populated Jnah neighbourhood, also injured 60 people and reportedly damaged the Rafik Hariri University Hospital. At least three buildings located about 50 meters (54 yards) from the hospital are said to have been destroyed. The hospital, one of Beirut’s key medical facilities, has been...

Gaza: School set for polio vaccine campaign hit in deadly strike, says UNRWA

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·October 14, 2024·2 min read

“Throughout the night, I spoke to a colleague sheltering in the compound who told me, ‘We miraculously survived, the fire caught everywhere even the tent where we were sleeping burnt. The scene is terrifying,’” said Louise Wateridge, spokesperson for the UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA. Images shared by UNRWA...