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World News in Brief: Climate change in the countryside, Yemen polio drive success, development and peace

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home World News in Brief: Climate change in the countryside, Yemen polio drive success, development and peace 05 March 2024 © FAO/Daniil Dolidze Shaodatkhon Oripova is participating in the FAO Smart Farming for the Future Generations project and the Digital Villages Initiative that aims to transform at least 1 000 villages around the world into digital hubs. Climate change is disproportionately…

South Sudan: Top UN official calls for greater political investment as polls loom

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home South Sudan: Top UN official calls for greater political investment as polls loom 05 March 2024 © WFP/Eulalia Berlanga People return to South Sudan from Sudan. With only nine months remaining before the polls in December, South Sudan is not ready to hold elections and a lot more needs to be done, the head of UN peace operations said on Tuesday…

Drugs online: UN-backed body offers solutions to counter narcotics surge

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home Drugs online: UN-backed body offers solutions to counter narcotics surge 05 March 2024 © UNODC Cocaine seizure in the Port of Kingston, Jamaica, in March 2023. Drug dealers have continued to use cutting-edge digital technology, social media platforms and disinformation to sell their illegal produce, fuelling narcotics consumption globally, a UN-backed report launched on Tuesday showed.…

North Gaza aid mission reveals more infants may die from hunger

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home North Gaza aid mission reveals more infants may die from hunger 05 March 2024 © WFP/Ali Jadallah Families displaced by the conflict in Gaza are reliant on food assistance from the UN. A rare opportunity to deliver desperately needed supplies to hospitals in northern Gaza for the first time in months has been welcomed by UN humanitarians, who on Tuesday issued a fresh alert about “appalling”…

Gaza: Efforts to deliver food aid to stricken north ‘largely unsuccessful’

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home Gaza: Efforts to deliver food aid to stricken north ‘largely unsuccessful’ 05 March 2024 © UNRWA Humanitarians warn that hunger has reached catastrophic levels in northern Gaza. Efforts by the UN World Food Programme (WFP) to deliver desperately needed food supplies to northern Gaza resumed on Tuesday, but were largely unsuccessful, the agency reported…

Gaza war may fuel much wider Middle East crisis, warns UN rights chief

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home Gaza war may fuel much wider Middle East crisis, warns UN rights chief 04 March 2024 UN News Men walk through a heavily damaged area of central Gaza. Negotiations for a ceasefire in Gaza continued in Egypt for a second day on Monday as the UN’s top rights official warned that the war there risked morphing into a much “wider conflagration” enveloping every country in the Middle East and…

General Assembly President condemns ‘catastrophic, unconscionable, shameful’ conditions in Gaza

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home General Assembly President condemns ‘catastrophic, unconscionable, shameful’ conditions in Gaza 04 March 2024 UN Photo/Evan Schneider A wide view of the UN General Assembly as members states meet on the situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Ambassadors in the UN General Assembly again discussed on Monday the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza and the critical work of the UN…

‘Clear and convincing information’ that hostages held in Gaza subjected to sexual violence, says UN Special Representative

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home ‘Clear and convincing information’ that hostages held in Gaza subjected to sexual violence, says UN Special Representative 04 March 2024 United Nations Pramila Patten, Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, briefs journalists at the UN Headquarters, in New York. Following a 17-day visit to Israel, the UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in…

‘Mega election’ 2024 could be a landmark for democracy: UN rights chief

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home ‘Mega election’ 2024 could be a landmark for democracy: UN rights chief 04 March 2024 UN Photo/Marco Dormino A voter's finger is dyed with ink after casting a vote in presidential elections. Dozens of elections taking place this year around the world will likely be “free from hatred” and respect the will of the people, but there are warning signs that several polls may not, including…

UN crime prevention chief pledges enhanced cooperation in Somalia

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home UN crime prevention chief pledges enhanced cooperation in Somalia 04 March 2024 UN Photo/Mukhtar Nuur UNODC Executive Director Ghada Waly (second, right) at the opening of a court prison complex in Somalia. The Executive Director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Ghada Waly has highlighted the threats of transnational organized crime, terrorism and corruption that is plaguing…