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Nearly 6 million people in the Caribbean impacted by Hurricane Melissa
- UN News
Some six million people have been affected by the category five hurricane which swept across the Caribbean last week, prompting UN agencies to scale up relief operations to safeguard livelihoods and reduce further losses.
World News in Brief: Self-sufficiency call for healthcare funding, Australia treaty with Indigenous Peoples, Haiti women at risk
- UN News
The UN World Health Organization (WHO) issued new guidance on Monday to help poorer nations cope with severe global funding cuts for essential medical services worldwide.
In a quiet community on Doha’s edge, Gaza’s wounded and orphaned learn to heal
- UN News
In the late afternoon light, about 20 kilometres from Doha, the Al-Thumama complex looks like any quiet residential neighbourhood: paved pathways, rows of apartment blocks, the hum of air-conditioning carrying through the warm desert air.
Gaza: Food access improves in the south but food convoys fail to reach north directly
- UN News
In its latest update from Gaza, the UN aid coordination office, OCHA, said that access to food improved in early October, especially in southern governorates.
Surviving the next pandemic could depend on where you live
- UN News
A new global report warns that inequality is increasing the world’s vulnerability to pandemics, making them more deadly, more costly and longer lasting – and where you live, could determine how badly impacted you are.
Fresh push to fight toxic mercury pollution underway
- UN News
Representatives from countries around the world are working together to reduce mercury pollution and protect people and the planet, at a major international meeting which got underway on Monday in Geneva, Switzerland.
Famine tightens grip on Sudan, with civilians trapped and aid blocked
- UN News
Sudan’s hunger crisis has deepened further, with new UN-backed analysis confirming that famine is underway in parts of Darfur and Kordofan, where fighting and sieges have cut off entire communities from food and aid.
FAO warns of ‘silent crisis’ as land degradation threatens billions
- UN News
Roughly 1.7 billion people are living in areas where crop yields are failing due to human-induced land degradation – “a pervasive and silent crisis that is undermining agricultural productivity and threatening ecosystem health worldwide.”
UN agencies on hand as deadly new quake hits northern Afghanistan
- UN News
UN teams rushed to northern Afghanistan on Monday after a powerful 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck overnight, just two months after a massive quake devastated the east of the country. Details are still emerging from the latest emergency where initial reports indicate at least 20 people have been killed and hundreds injured.
Global alliance meets in Doha to confront hunger crisis
- UN News
With global hunger rising and millions struggling to secure their next meal, world leaders gathered in Doha on Monday for the first high-level meeting of the Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty.
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