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Gaza: South Africa levels accusations of ‘genocidal conduct’ against Israel at world court

·January 11, 2024·2 min read

The development came amid the ongoing and massive Israeli bombardment across the Gaza Strip in response to Hamas-led terror attacks on 7 October that left some 1,200 Israeli and foreign nationals dead in southern Israel and some 250 taken hostage. Laying out their case, the South African legal team told...

UPDATED: Injured patients ‘waiting to die’ in northern Gaza as last hospital shuts down, amid rising ‘catastrophic’ hunger levels

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·December 21, 2023·5 min read

The latest grave assessment from the World Health Organization (WHO) came after UN teams reached Al Ahli Arab hospital and Al Shifa hospital on Wednesday, amid reports of intensifying ground operations by Israeli Defense Forces and continuing airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, in response to Hamas’s 7 October terror attacks...

Guterres blasts ‘completely inadequate’ levels of aid for Gaza civilians

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·November 2, 2023·2 min read

Secretary-General António Guterres also reiterated his call for an “immediate humanitarian ceasefire” between Israeli forces and militants from Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, and other militant groups. Consistent flow of aid essential In a statement, Mr. Guterres said depriving Gaza’s people of basic supplies was only “compounding the human...

Sudan health crisis reaches ‘gravely serious levels’: WHO

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·July 31, 2023·2 min read

Cases of infectious diseases and other illness have been reported among displaced populations who have sought shelter in hard-to-reach locations, where health services are limited. “The scale of the health crisis is enormous. We are working hard to step up our response, delivering critical medical and other emergency health supplies,”...

Violence in Sudan likely to spark record levels of hunger

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·May 10, 2023·2 min read

In an alert on the situation, the World Food Programme (WFP) said that it expected between two and 2.5 million more people to face acute hunger in the coming months, because of conflict that erupted on 15 April between forces loyal to rival Generals Abdel Fattah Al Burhan and Mohamed...

Haiti: Amid rising hunger levels, ‘world cannot wait for disaster before it acts’, WFP warns

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·March 27, 2023·2 min read

“Haiti can’t wait,” said Jean-Martin Bauer, World Food Programme (WFP) Country Director for the country. “We cannot wait for the scale of the problem to be expressed in deaths before the world responds, but that is where we are heading.” Half the population – 4.9 million people – are now...

Climate change: CO2 and methane in our atmosphere reach record levels |

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·October 26, 2022·5 min read

The agency’s yearly Greenhouse Gas Bulletin warns of the biggest year-on-year jump in methane concentrations in 2021 since systematic measurements began nearly 40 years ago. While the reason for the unprecedented increase is still unclear, it seems to be a result of both biological and human-induced processes according to the...

Overlapping crises push millions into ‘extreme levels of acute food insecurity’ |

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·June 6, 2022·3 min read

The ripple effects of the Ukraine war have triggered price surges, particularly in areas characterized by rural marginalization and fragile agrifood systems, according to the joint report entitled Hunger Hotspots – FAO-WFP early warnings on acute food insecurity. 🆘Northern Ethiopia🆘Somalia🆘Yemen🆘South Sudan🆘Afghanistan These are the places where a perfect storm of...