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World News in Brief: Deadly virus outbreak in Uganda, $500 million human rights appeal, Thailand’s lèse-majesté laws in spotlight

Health authorities in Kampala confirmed that one patient has died – a nurse who had sought treatment at various other medical facilities after developing fever-like symptoms.In response to the outbreak…

1 February 2025 · 4 min read

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DR Congo emergency: Next 24 hours are critical, warn UN agencies

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 blocked, ports are closed and those…

1 February 2025 · 5 min read

Sudan: UN rights chief ‘alarmed’ by summary executions, attacks on civilians

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Sudan: UN rights chief ‘alarmed’ by summary executions, attacks on civilians

Government forces and a rival military – the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) – have been battling for control of the country since April 2023 in what Mr. Türk called a…

1 February 2025 · 3 min read

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DR CONGO CRISIS: Security Council hears call for ‘urgent and coordinated international action’ over Goma

The Security Council met for the second time in three days on Tuesday over the escalating crisis in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, with UN agencies and partners…

31 January 2025 · 1 min read

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DR Congo crisis: ‘The violence must end now’, UN Security Council told

Vivian van de Perre, Deputy Head of the UN Stabilization Mission in the DRC (MONUSCO), provided a detailed briefing from Goma, highlighting the dire humanitarian situation and the need for…

30 January 2025 · 4 min read

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DR Congo crisis: A public health ‘nightmare’ is unfolding, warns WHO

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 portion of the city” after intense…

30 January 2025 · 3 min read

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UNAIDS welcomes US decision to keep funding life-saving HIV treatment

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 laid out in an executive order…

29 January 2025 · 3 min read

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Guterres welcomes start of ceasefire in Gaza as UN ramps up food deliveries

“We stand ready to support this implementation and scale up the delivery of sustained humanitarian relief to the countless Palestinians who continue to suffer,” the UN chief said in a…

29 January 2025 · 5 min read

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‘We have a duty to stand against intolerance’: UN human rights chief

Marking Holocaust Remembrance Day on Monday, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, said the essence of commemorations was to acknowledge the past but they “must also examine the present…

29 January 2025 · 2 min read

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World News in Brief: Sudan famine latest, weekend attacks in Ukraine, Tanzania Marburg virus update

In an alert on Monday, the World Food Programme (WFP) said that the trucks will be the first from the UN agency to reach Wad Madani in over a year,…

28 January 2025 · 4 min read