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Over 60 per cent of the Arab world still outside the banking system
15 May 2025
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Cover page for the Annual SDG Review 2025: Financial Inclusion in the Arab Region.
Between 2016 and 2024, the number of Egyptians with a bank account – which experts say is essential for financial inclusion - tripled, from 17.1 million to over 51 million…
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Gaza: New displacement orders force thousands to flee as famine looms
15 May 2025
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Two children in Gaza City. Humanitarian partners have also witnessed soaring malnutrition levels among children.
Intensified hostilities continue in the Gaza Strip, bringing further death, displacement and destruction as the weeks-long aid blockade grinds on, the UN humanitarian affairs office (OCHA)…
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Libya’s fragile peace tested again as new clashes roil Tripoli
15 May 2025
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A truce has brought a sense of calm to Tripoli, following some of the worst fighting the Libyan capital has seen in years. (file photo)
A fragile calm has settled over Tripoli after a sudden surge of violence this week left parts of the city in ruins, claimed civilian lives, and heightened…
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‘We are still waiting for our loved ones’: Families of the abducted speak out
15 May 2025
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Sung Eui Lee (left), daughter of Jong Ryung Lee, and Ruby Chen, father of Itay Chen, address the Security Council.
Two families – one still waiting for answers 75 years after a father was taken during the Korean War, the other pleading for a son’s return from…
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UN needed ‘more than ever before’ says Germany’s candidate to head General Assembly
15 May 2025
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Former Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock of Germany speaks during the General Assembly informal interactive dialogue with the candidate for the position of President of the General Assembly for the eightieth session.
The former Foreign Minister of Germany outlined her vision…
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8 million teens in world's wealthiest countries functionally illiterate: UNICEF
14 May 2025
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UNICEF’s ‘Pandemic Classroom’ at the UN Headquarters in New York. Each empty desk and chair represents the million children living in countries where schools have been almost entirely closed.
Children in many of the world’s wealthiest countries saw…
