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Gaza: 10,000 aid trucks reached enclave since ceasefire began

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Announcing the development, the UN’s top aid official, Tom Fletcher, said that the trucks contained lifesaving food, medicine, and tents – all desperately needed...
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‘She had a syringe, razor blade, and bandages’: Surviving genital mutilation

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Zeinaba Mahr Aouad, a 24-year-old woman from Djibouti, remembers the day when, as a ten-year-old, an unexpected visitor came to her house: “She...
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DR Congo emergency: Next 24 hours are critical, warn UN agencies

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Dead bodies lie in the streets, hospitals are overwhelmed and there has been an uptick in reports of sexual violence, rape and looting.“Roads are...
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Sudan: UN rights chief ‘alarmed’ by summary executions, attacks on civilians

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Government forces and a rival military – the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) – have been battling for control of the country since April...
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DR CONGO CRISIS: Security Council hears call for ‘urgent and coordinated...

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The Security Council met for the second time in three days on Tuesday over the escalating crisis in the eastern Democratic Republic of the...
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DR Congo crisis: ‘The violence must end now’, UN Security Council...

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Vivian van de Perre, Deputy Head of the UN Stabilization Mission in the DRC (MONUSCO), provided a detailed briefing from Goma, highlighting the dire...
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DR Congo crisis: A public health ‘nightmare’ is unfolding, warns WHO

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The internet also remains down in the provincial capital and only mobile phone networks are functioning, with M23 fighters apparently in control of “a significant...
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UNAIDS welcomes US decision to keep funding life-saving HIV treatment

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The move from the UN agency dedicated to ending the disease came in response to an immediate 90-day funding pause for all foreign assistance...
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Saints and liars: The story of American aid workers who helped Jewish refugees escape the Holocaust

A new book on their work underlines the chaos of the time, and the difficult decisions they had to make, knowing that for...

‘We must be there for them now,’ says UN relief chief, highlighting plight of Gaza’s children

"Today marks one of the rare times we are able to highlight positive developments, albeit amid catastrophic humanitarian needs in Gaza," Mr. Fletcher began. He...

Human rights expert welcomes clemency for Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier

The Executive Grant of Clemency, signed on Sunday just hours before Mr. Biden left office, commutes Mr. Peltier’s life sentences to home confinement,...

DR Congo emergency: Fears that regional capital Goma faces attack

“We are deeply alarmed at the heightened risk of an attack by the M23 armed group on Goma, the capital of North Kivu,...

DR Congo emergency: Fears that regional capital Goma faces attack

“We are deeply alarmed at the heightened risk of an attack by the M23 armed group on Goma, the capital of North Kivu, in...

Global education must integrate AI, centred on humanity

His message highlighted the dual nature of technological advances such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), which offer immense potential – but also pose considerable risks.“Education...

World News in Brief: More UN staffers detained in Yemen, education hit by climate crisis, Nigeria aid plan

The de facto rulers of much of the country, including the capital Sana’a, released the crew of a merchant ship who had been held...

UN rights office raises alarm over escalating violence in occupied West Bank

OHCHR spokesperson Thameen Al-Kheetan added that the Israeli military operation in and around the Jenin refugee camp had involved “disproportionate” use of force,...

UN chief hails ‘peacemaker, human rights champion’, former President Jimmy Carter

The Democratic Party icon lived longer than any president in US history, serving one term between 1977 and 1981, going on burnish his...

A decade of conflict: ‘Almost 40 million Yemenis have waited far too long’

Special Envoy Hans Grundberg highlighted the alarming trend of escalation provoked by Yemen’s Houthi forces who began attacking international shipping in the Red Sea...
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