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Drone victims, terror and death: 30 minutes inside a Gaza hospital
- UN News
UN aid teams on Friday highlighted the disturbing situation in Gaza’s makeshift hospitals, where premature babies cry for scant oxygen and medics attempt to save child survivors targeted by airstrikes in their tents and quadcopter victims reportedly shot while fetching bread.
The Ranch Fighting to Save Nigeria’s Endangered Drill Monkeys
- Inter Press Service
BOKI, Nigeria, October 2 (IPS) - For the past 23 years, Gabriel Oshie has started his mornings at Drill Ranch in the Afi Mountain Wildlife Sanctuary, Boki, Cross River state, southern Nigeria.
Are Youth-led Revolutions in South Asia a Cause for Concern?
- Inter Press Service
ROME, October 2 (IPS) - In the Global South, where people under the age of 18 comprise more than 50 percent of the population, youth activism is increasing rapidly. Youngsters are more agile and volatile than older people, less restrained by family, prestige and work. However, many suffer from marginalisation, lack of employment, and poverty. Furthermore, insecurity and limited life experience make young people an easy target for manipulating and unscrupulous politicians, criminal networks, and religious fanatics.
West Bank: Record Number of Demolitions over Building Permits as Israel Furthers Annexation Agenda
- Inter Press Service
OSLO, Norway, October 2 (IPS) - In less than nine months, Israel has demolished more Palestinian homes and structures in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, over building permits than in the whole of last year.
Gaza health system overwhelmed as WHO reports 42,000 people have life-changing injuries
- UN News
Nearly 42,000 people in Gaza are living with life-changing injuries from the ongoing conflict – including more than 10,000 children – as the health system collapses under relentless strain, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Thursday.
Increasing violence and funding cuts imperil millions across Haiti
- UN News
Rising violence by gangs in Haiti’s capital is restricting humanitarian access and pushing families deeper into hunger, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Thursday.
Sudan: UN rights chief calls for urgent action to protect civilians in El Fasher
- UN News
UN human rights chief Volker Türk on Thursday warned that civilians in Sudan’s El Fasher face the imminent risk of large-scale atrocities, as fighting intensifies around the regional capital of North Darfur, besieged for more than 500 days by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia.
Philippines earthquake: UN pledges support as Cebu death toll rises to 72
- UN News
Hospitals are overwhelmed and families are sheltering in the open after a deadly 6.9 magnitude earthquake tore through northern Cebu in the Philippines, killing at least 70 people and displacing more than 20,000, according to local authorities and humanitarians on the ground.
Guterres condemns deadly terror attack targeting Manchester synagogue
- UN News
Thursday’s terrorist attack on a synagogue in Manchester, which left at least two worshippers dead on the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, has been strongly condemned by the UN Secretary-General.
The Syria prison survivor who’s seeking justice for those still missing
- UN News
When the gates of Syria’s notorious Sednaya prison opened soon after the fall of the Assad regime last December, graffiti scrawled on the walls offered a frightening glimpse into what was widely known as the “human slaughterhouse”. “First day, severe beating,” one prisoner wrote.
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