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UN condemns killing of two more peacekeepers in Lebanon
- UN News
The United Nations has condemned two consecutive days of deadly attacks on peacekeepers serving with the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), amid rising hostilities between Israeli forces and Hezbollah militants.
World News in Brief: Ukraine drone attacks, Afghan rights, Zero-Waste Day
- UN News
A night of drone attacks reportedly killed two people and injured 12 in the Ukrainian port city of Odesa, as a maternity hospital and three educational facilities were also damaged.
The image from Gaza that still haunts me: Palestine relief agency chief
- UN News
Asking the softly spoken, veteran humanitarian worker Philippe Lazzarini how he feels as he comes to the end of his second term as the head of the UN agency for Palestinians, UNRWA, is perhaps an unfair question.
Developing countries are being priced out, in struggle for affordable finance
- UN News
Developing countries are being priced out of the affordable finance they desperately need for sustainable development, with sovereign credit ratings often overstating risk and overlooking long-term economic potential, the UN said on Monday.
Sea mines clearance: A new dimension of difficulty
- UN News
Clearing mines laid at sea can be an “extremely challenging and very dangerous” undertaking according to a UN mines expert.
MIDDLE EAST LIVE 30 March: UN peacekeeper killed amid Israel-Hezbollah clashes
- UN News
Further attacks have been reported across the Middle East as the war enters a second month, with one UN peacekeeper killed in Lebanon on Sunday and another seriously injured. On the diplomatic front, the UN has announced a taskforce to restore the flow of fertilizer and aid through the Strait of Hormuz, while the UN's atomic watchdog confirms an attack on a heavy water facility at Khondab in Iran. Stay with us for live updates on this and UN agencies. App users can follow coverage here.
UN peacekeeper killed, another seriously injured, in southern Lebanon
- UN News
UN Secretary-General António Guterres called for accountability after a peacekeeper was killed in Lebanon on Sunday amid hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah.
Middle East war: UN initiatives support mediation efforts, ‘lifesaving’ fertiliser shipments
- UN News
Just hours after war broke out in the Middle East last month, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres warned the Security Council that the fighting risked “igniting a chain of events that no one can control in the most volatile region of the world.”
Kidnapped and tortured on an infamous migration route to Saudi Arabia
- UN News
An Ethiopian man describes how he was tortured by human traffickers as he went in search of his nephew on a now infamous migration route from the Horn of Africa through Yemen to Saudi Arabia.
Escalating Violence and Influx of Returnees in DRC Fuel Regional Instability
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, March 27 (IPS) - In the month following the reopening of the Burundi-Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) border, the humanitarian crisis in the DRC has deteriorated considerably, recently marked by an influx of Congolese refugees returning home, where they face overcrowded conditions and a severe shortage of essential services. This comes in the midst of escalating clashes between rebel groups AFC and M23, and forces affiliated with the Kinshasa government, with drone strikes causing widespread destruction and pushing violence closer to Burundi’s borders, where conditions are most dire.
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