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World News in Brief: COVID risk still high, massive Congo flood displacement, concern over Sri Lanka drugs crackdown

·January 14, 2024·3 min read

The virus is still circulating globally but relatively few countries are following infections closely, meaning the actual threat due to the coronavirus and its variants could be anything from two to 19 times higher than what is being reported to WHO. The agency’s COVID focal point, Dr Maria Van Kerhove,...

Libya: Mission chief updates Security Council on flood disaster ‘beyond imagination’

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·October 16, 2023·2 min read

Briefing the Security Council, Abdoulaye Bathily noted the thousands of lives lost by the dam bursts which destroyed whole neighbourhoods after Storm Daniel slammed the region on 10 September. The Special Representative told ambassadors that despite the sense of national unity and compassion shown by ordinary Libyans, the disaster had...

Pakistan: Flood waters have gone but horror continues for children, UNICEF warns

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·August 26, 2023·1 min read

Speaking one year on from the unprecedented disaster, Abdullah Fadil, UNICEF Representative in Pakistan, noted new challenges for about four million children living without safe water in flood-affected areas. “Vulnerable children living in flood-affected areas have endured a horrific year. They lost their loved ones, homes and schools. As the...

Ukraine flood disaster: needs grow as long-term impacts loom

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·June 9, 2023·4 min read

Speaking to journalists from Bilozerka, a town on the Dnipro River about 20 kilometres west of Kherson and five kilometres from the frontline, Ms. Brown, the Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator, said that on Friday, the UN brought in a five-truck convoy to the affected areas, with desperately needed drinking water,...

UN Assembly President calls for Apollo 13 ingenuity to navigate flood risks

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·February 19, 2023·1 min read

“This is a challenge that we can master with ingenuity and determination,” said Csaba Kőrösi, calling for science-based solutions and solidarity, as he delivered a keynote speech at the high-level symposium on “Integrated Water Cycle Management in the post-COVID-19 era.” He said when the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were...