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Sudan: Child deaths rise, concern intensifies for refugees after 100 days of battle

·July 24, 2023·1 min read

The UN agency added that there have been more than 2,500 severe violations of children’s rights – an average of more than one an hour – in a country where 14 million youngsters need aid relief. “As we reach more than 100 days since the conflict in Sudan escalated, we...

Unitaid: Close to a million deaths by 2035 if TB prevention is not acted on

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·July 20, 2023·1 min read

The UN agency insisted that implementing a combined strategy of identifying household contacts and providing TB preventive treatment is cost-effective. Unitaid said it could cut deaths by 35 per cent among household contacts of patients and people living with HIV in the next 12 years. Saving children’s lives The joint...

World ‘wilfully ignoring’ child deaths during dangerous Mediterranean Sea crossings

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·July 15, 2023·2 min read

The figure is equivalent to about 11 children dying each week, “far beyond what we hear in news headlines,” Vera Knaus, the agency’s Global Lead on Migration and Displacement, told journalists attending the biweekly UN humanitarian briefing in Geneva. “We cannot continue to ignore what is happening – stand by...

Road Safety Week: African nations steer towards reducing deaths

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·May 15, 2023·5 min read

Increasingly grim accident statistics provided the impetus for action, including two bus crashes in Senegal that claimed 62 lives in January. In nearby Côte d’Ivoire, the daily number of fatal road accidents has risen to 46, from just 12 in 2012. In the world’s region most affected by road crashes,...

Keep Sudan borders open UNHCR urges, amid alarming rise in child deaths

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·May 7, 2023·2 min read

Elizabeth Tan, UNHCR’s Director of International Protection said their first request was that countries allow civilians fleeing Sudan on “a non-discriminatory manner to access their territory”. She said this applied to Sudanese nationals, foreign nationals, and refugees who are being hosted in Sudan, “stateless persons, as well as those who...

WHO launches new pandemic prevention plan, as COVID deaths fall 95 per cent

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·April 26, 2023·1 min read

The guidance provides a joined-up approach for responding to the threat or arrival of any respiratory pathogen such as flu or the range of coronaviruses, that have the ability to rapidly mutate into different variants. The new Preparedness and Resilience for Emerging Threats Initiative, or PRET, incorporates the latest tools and approaches for...

Central Mediterranean: Deadliest first quarter for migrant deaths in six years

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·April 13, 2023·2 min read

IOM’s Missing Migrants Project documented 441 deaths during this period, though the true toll is likely to be higher. Investigations continue into several reports of so-called invisible shipwrecks – cases where boats are reported missing but there are no records of survivors or search and rescue (SAR) operations. The...

United States: UN rights experts gravely concerned over ‘brutal deaths’ at hands of police

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·February 11, 2023·3 min read

Keenan Anderson died in Los Angeles after being repeatedly tased by police following a chase resulting from a traffic stop, according to news reports, and Tyre Nichols in Memphis, died after being severely beaten as he lay on the ground, by five officers in Memphis, Tennessee, who have since been...

UN envoy ‘deeply alarmed’ over deaths of nine Palestinians in West Bank raid

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·January 27, 2023·1 min read

Tor Wennesland described the deaths – during an intense gun battle at a refugee camp in the city of Jenin – which included militants and reportedly, an elderly woman, as another “stark example” of the escalation in violence. The Israeli military said that troops were involved in an operation at...

Peru: UN rights office calls for probe into protestor deaths

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·January 16, 2023·1 min read

“We are very concerned at the rising violence in Peru, which on Monday 9 January saw one of the deadliest days since unrest erupted in early December,” Spokesperson Marta Hurtado said in a statement. The protests were sparked after the former President, Pedro Castillo, attempted to dissolve Congress and rule...

UN chief ‘deeply saddened’ at deaths from South Africa gas tanker explosion

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·January 3, 2023·1 min read

The blast in Boksburg severely damaged the roof of the emergency department at the Tambo Memorial hospital there, killing and injuring dozens while also reportedly destroying houses and cars. Initial reports estimated around 27 deaths, but that figure had risen to 34 by the past weekend, according to regional health...

Mali: UN chief ‘strongly condemns’ deaths of two peacekeepers in ‘heinous attack’

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·December 18, 2022·3 min read

In a statement issued on Friday, Stéphane Dujarric said that in addition to the deaths of the male and female peacekeepers in Timbuktu town earlier in the day, four other blue helmets from the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) were injured. Possible war crime Attacks targeting UN...