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World News in Brief: WFP ‘pauses’ north Yemen food aid, human rights and sport, Myanmar latest

·December 5, 2023·3 min read

The region has been under the control of opposition Houthi forces since the internationally recognized Government were driven out of the city in 2015. WFP said that despite negotiating with the authorities for nearly a year to provide a more limited aid programme that would reach around 6.5 million in...

Gaza: ‘Humanitarian pauses’ will need coordination with the UN

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·November 12, 2023·2 min read

Stéphane Dujarric was responding to a journalist’s question following the White House’s announcement that Israel has agreed to halt military operations in northern Gaza to allow daily four-hour humanitarian pauses. Parties must agree “How any such halt in the fighting, and how it would work for humanitarian purposes, will need...

WFP pauses food distribution in Ethiopia following ‘significant diversion’ of aid

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·May 4, 2023·1 min read

“WFP takes this issue extremely seriously and will not tolerate any interference in its distribution of critical food aid to the most vulnerable women, men and children”, the agency said in a statement released on Wednesday night. The agency has already launched a comprehensive investigation, and “taken swift action to...

UN coordinator calls for urgent ‘humanitarian pauses’ in Sudan, as death toll mounts

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·April 21, 2023·3 min read

“I am horrified by the toll the clashes are having on civilians”, said Abdou Dieng. “At least 331 people have been killed nationwide, including five aid workers, and nearly 3,200 have been injured.” The fighting between troops from the national army and a powerful rival militia known as the Rapid Support Forces (RSF)...