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A recent report published on Tuesday by the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) indicates that the global economy showed resilience at the beginning of 2026, buoyed by trade,...
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Recent attacks killed two Lebanese Red Cross volunteers: Youssef Assaf, who died during a rescue operation on 9 March, and Hassan Badawi, killed in a drone strike on 12 April.According...
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Much of the violence has been concentrated in Cité Soleil, an impoverished neighbourhood in the capital, where humanitarian workers are now seeking to provide life-saving assistance. ©WFP/Odelyn Joseph A burnt-out...
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Recently returned from a visit to the devastated enclave, Dr. Renee Van de Weerdt, the World Health Organization (WHO)’s representative in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, told reporters in Geneva, “Nothing...
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The warning comes from the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, and the World Food Programme (WFP).They said “essential assistance to the refugees will be drastically scaled back even further in the coming...
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WHO Representative in Lebanon Dr. Abdinasir Abubakar spoke to UN News from Beirut and said that Wednesday marked “one of the deadliest single days in the current escalation of violence” in...
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Speaking from Khartoum, the representative of the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, in the country Marie-Helene Verney told reporters that since the start of the conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces...
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Edem Wosurnu of the UN humanitarian affairs office, OCHA, briefed journalists on her recent mission to the Caribbean island nation where violent armed gangs remain in control of large areas of the territory. The worsening crisis is marked by rising insecurity, deepening protection needs, mass displacement, shocking levels of gender-based...
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Denise Brown, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan, said the crisis is following a grim pattern of repeated abuses and repeated suffering.“We are on repeat in Sudan,” she told journalists in...
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The fragile United States-Iran ceasefire is holding, following over a month of strikes and counterstrikes in the Gulf region – and in connection with that conflict, the Houthi movement’s military...
