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Cyclone Ditwah triggered landslides in several parts of Sri Lanka, destroying roads and cutting off towns and villages. Pictured here, destroyed houses and shops in Uthuwankanda.

Deadly storms sweep South and Southeast Asia, leaving over 1,600 dead

From Sri Lanka’s central highlands to Indonesia’s flood-swollen river basins, a wave of climate-fuelled cyclones and monsoon rains has unleashed one of the deadliest weather patterns south and…
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People across the Arab region including in the city of Makkah, Saudi Arabia, face increasing pressure from climate extremes.

Arab region pushed to limits by climate extremes as 2024 smashes heat records

Beds nets have saved millions of children's lives from malaria since 2000.

Malaria: Drug resistance and underfunding threaten progress towards eliminating killer disease

A UNICEF-supported mobile clinic provides healthcare to people displaced by violence in Darfur, Sudan.

Sudan: Kordofan cannot become ‘another El Fasher,’ Türk warns

Women and girls seek support at a UNFPA-supported safe space in Gaza.

UN support helps Gaza mothers give birth amid collapsing health system

A child has her finger marked after receiving the polio vaccine in Kwango province, the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

African football legends join forces to give a red card to polio

Li Fung, Representative of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Sudan, during a visit to Khartoum with Radhouane Nouicer, the Designated Expert on Sudan of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Amid Sudan’s unimaginable crisis, its people endure with hope

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