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‘The world is failing the Haitian people’ warns UNICEF chief
Briefing correspondents at UN Headquarters in New York just a few days after visiting Haiti along with the head of the World Food Programme (WFP), Catherine Russell said “the current…
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‘The world is failing the Haitian people’ warns UNICEF chief
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Northeastern Nigeria: malnourished children fighting for their lives
The UN’s top humanitarian official in the country Matthias Schmale informed that severe hunger is affecting 4.3 million people in Nigeria’s Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states. The number of children…
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Sudan: Displacement soars amid shrinking humanitarian access
“We’ve already seen over 560,000 people crossing into neighbouring countries…[and] nearly two million people displaced internally,” said Raouf Mazou, UNHCR’s Assistant High Commissioner for Operations, following a visit to Sudan.Since conflict…
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A Bulgarian gang stealing used oil in France – ‘Grease Thieves’
Bulgarian trace in the theft of a large amount of used oil in France, which is sold for recycling and converted into biofuels, Agence France-Presse reported on 18 June 2023.…
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Horn of Africa: Around 60 million in urgent humanitarian need
“About five million children under the age of five are estimated to be facing acute malnutrition in 2023 in the Horn region, in the Greater Horn. That is about 10.4…
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Where is the world’s first phone-free island and why is it banning smartphones?
At the beginning of summer and the tourist season, social media users will struggle to answer the eternal question: If you haven't posted anything about your vacation, have you really…
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Somalia in danger of losing hard-won gains, Security Council hears
“Whilst many challenges and risks lie ahead, there are also many opportunities, and I urge all international partners to lean in and provide additional support to the people,” said the…
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With needs at a record high, underfunding is chronic Guterres tells humanitarians
With 360 million people worldwide in need of humanitarian assistance, up 30 percent since early 2022, global humanitarian needs have yet again reached record levels.In a video message to the Humanitarian…
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UN remains focused on ‘critical needs’ of Ukraine’s people
Achim Steiner, head of the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and Vice-Chair of the UN Sustainable Development Group told delegates he had just returned from the war-torn country, noting civilians’ “extraordinary…
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DRC: Lives shattered by violence, displacement and hunger in ‘forgotten crisis’: WFP
According to the UN World Food Programme (WFP), since March 2022 alone, 5.7 million people have been displaced in the eastern provinces of North Kivu, South Kivu and Ituri. Record displacementOverall,…