OCHA/Giles Clarke
FROM THE FIELD: Survival in Yemen against all odds
15 February 2019
Humanitarian Aid
Fawaz, just 18-months old, suffered from severe acute malnutrition and was on the brink of death. In war-torn Yemen, he was one of hundreds of thousands of children, more likely to die, than survive.
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‘Maintain calm’ and ‘exercise patience’ UN envoy urges, as Nigeria heads to polls
15 February 2019
Law and Crime Prevention
As Nigerians get ready to head to the polls on Saturday, the Head of the UN Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), described the pre-election period as “largely, peaceful and participatory”, and called for that spirit to prevail through election day and beyond.
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Country origin ‘best predictor of outcome’ for children with cancer, UN experts say
15 February 2019
Health
Each year, an estimated 215 000 cancers are diagnosed in children under-15, and about 85 000 cancers in those aged 15–19 years, the cancer research agency of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday.
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UN and partners appeal for $920 million to meet ‘dire needs’ of Rohingya refugees
15 February 2019
Humanitarian Aid
With more than 745,000 Rohingya having fled violence in Myanmar to settle in Bangladesh, joining roughly 200,000 others already sheltering there, United Nations aid agencies and partners launched an appeal on Friday to help meet their “dire needs".
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Biggest ever UN aid delivery in Syria provides relief to desperate civilians
15 February 2019
Humanitarian Aid
The biggest UN humanitarian convoy yet to operate inside Syria has successfully distributed aid to 40,000 desperate people in a hard-to-access desert camp near the country’s southern border with Jordan, the Organization announced on Friday.
UN News/Reem Abaza
Two States ‘side-by-side’ is the ‘peaceful and just solution’ for Israel-Palestine conflict: Guterres
15 February 2019
Peace and Security
A “peaceful and just solution” to the Israel-Palestine conflict can “only be achieved” through two States “living side-by-side in peace and security”, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres reiterated on Friday
UNMISS/Isaac Billy
‘Endemic’ sexual violence surging in South Sudan: UN human rights office
15 February 2019
Human Rights
A surge in sexual violence in South Sudan’s Unity state targeting victims as young as eight years old, has prompted a call from the UN human rights office, OHCHR, for urgent Government measures to protect victims, and bring perpetrators to justice.
UN Photo/Loey Felipe
Security Council condemns ‘heinous and cowardly’ attack in Iran
14 February 2019
Peace and Security
The United Nations Security Council has condemned “in the strongest terms” Wednesday’s “heinous and cowardly” terrorist attack in south-east Iran’s Sistan-Baluchestan Province.
UN Photo/Loey Felipe
UN announces roadmap to Climate Summit in 2019, a ‘critical year’ for climate action
14 February 2019
Climate Change
2019 is a critical year, the “last chance” for the international community to take effective action on climate change, General Assembly President Maria Espinosa said on Thursday, during a briefing to announce the UN’s roadmap to the Climate Summitin September.
OCHA/Giles Clarke
Humanitarian crisis in Yemen remains the worst in the world, warns UN
14 February 2019
Humanitarian Aid
An estimated 24 million people – close to 80 per cent of the population – need assistance and protection in Yemen, the UN warned on Thursday. With famine threatening hundreds of thousands of lives, humanitarian aid is increasingly becoming the only lifeline for millions across the country.
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UN agencies call for action to bolster rights of Europe’s stateless children
14 February 2019
Human Rights
United Nations agencies are calling on States and regional organizations across Europe to take urgent action to ensure that thousands of currently stateless children are given the support and protection they deserve.
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Measles cases nearly doubled in a year, UN health agency projects
14 February 2019
Health
A projected near-doubling of measles infections has been identified amid rising severe and protracted outbreaks all over the planet, in poor and rich countries alike, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday.
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UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferre
Rights of ‘gilets jaunes’ protesters in France, ‘disproportionately curtailed’, say UN independent experts
14 February 2019
Human Rights
French protesters’ rights have been “disproportionately curtailed” during the wave of recent “gilet jaunes”, or yellow jacket demonstrations across the country over Government economic policies, said a group of independent UN human rights experts on Thursday.
UN Photo/Mark Garten
UN chief hails victory of ‘political will’ in historic Republic of North Macedonia accord
14 February 2019
UN Affairs
The UN-brokered agreement between Athens and Skopje to formally recognize the “Republic of North Macedonia”, is a welcome, “historical” step that should be supported by regional and international Member States, António Guterres has announced.
UN Photo/ICJ-CIJ/Frank van Beek
Top UN court rules it has jurisdiction to hear Iranian claim against US over frozen assets
13 February 2019
Law and Crime Prevention
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled on Wednesday that is has the jurisdiction to hear part of a case brought by Iran against the United States, aimed at unfreezing close to $2 billion in Iranian assets being held there.
IOM Iraq/Sarah Ali Abed
Iraq: Security Council told ‘despair’ has ‘given way to hope’ but road to stability ‘long and far from easy’
13 February 2019
Peace and Security
Despite some positive developments following years of brutal conflict, Iraq is gripped by political stalemate and a continued humanitarian crisis that is hampering the stabilization of the country, the head of the UN Assistance Mission in the country, (UNAMI), Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, told the Security Council on Wednesday.
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LGBT community in Chechnya faces ‘new wave of persecution’: UN human rights experts
13 February 2019
Human Rights
People in Chechnya who are suspected of being lesbian, gay or bisexual, are facing a “new wave of persecution” following a spate of killings involving torture, and other rights abuses, said a group of independent UN human rights experts on Wednesday.
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‘New tech’ business model threatens decent work conditions, warns UN
13 February 2019
Economic Development
Unemployment is down globally but workers’ conditions have not improved, the UN said on Wednesday, warning that some businesses driven by new technology “threaten to undermine” hard-won social gains of recent decades.
UNESCO
Radio still a powerful worldwide tool for ‘dialogue, tolerance and peace’: Guterres
13 February 2019
UN Affairs
Radio is a powerful tool that continues to promote “dialogue, tolerance and peace,” United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said in message on Thursday, marking World Radio Day.
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Civilians ‘continue to pay highest price’ in Ukraine conflict, with peace prospects losing ‘momentum’
12 February 2019
Peace and Security
“Civilians continue to pay the highest price” arising from Ukraine’s on-going conflict with separatist rebels in the east, the UN Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator told the Security Council on Tuesday, a conflict which is still claiming lives.
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Thousands flee fresh violence in South Sudan, many ‘suffering from trauma’
12 February 2019
Peace and Security
Over the past few days thousands of desperate civilians have been fleeing a fresh outbreak of violence in South Sudan’s Equatoria state, seeking safety in neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), many “suffering from trauma.”
World Bank/Arne Hoel
‘Shared responsibility’ to stop 420,000 needless deaths from tainted food each year, UN, world leaders warn
12 February 2019
Health
Each year, food contaminated with bacteria, viruses, parasites, toxins or chemicals cause more than 600 million people to fall ill, and 420,000 to die worldwide, prompting a call from world leaders on Tuesday for greater international cooperation to make the food chain safer.
MINUSMA/Harandane Dicko
‘Urgent need’ to stop Mali violence with ‘effective’ military response: UN expert
12 February 2019
Peace and Security
The state of human rights and security across Mali is a “cause of grave concern,” the independent UN rights expert for the northwest African nation said in a statement on Tuesday, in which he called for an “effective military response” to end the violence and protect the civilian population.
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UN guidelines unveiled to prevent rising hearing loss among young smartphone listeners
12 February 2019
Health
More than one billion 12 to 35-year-olds, risk irreversible hearing loss from exposure to loud sounds such as music played on their smartphone, UN health experts said on Tuesday, unveiling new guidelines to help address the problem.
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UN Environment
Boat made of recycled plastic and flip-flops inspires fight for cleaner seas along African coast
12 February 2019
SDGs
After completing a historic 500km journey from the Kenyan island of Lamu to the Tanzanian island of Zanzibar, the world’s first ever traditional “dhow” sailing boat made entirely from recycled plastic, known as the Flipflopi, has successfully raised awareness of the need to overcome one of the world’s biggest environmental challenges: plastic pollution.
MINUJUSTH/Leonora Baumann
Protests, violence in Haiti prompts international call for ‘realistic and lasting solutions’ to crisis
11 February 2019
Peace and Security
Opposition-led protests in Haiti calling for the president to step down, which sparked violence last week, have prompted a group of senior diplomats, included the top UN official there, to issue a statementdeploring the loss of life and calling for dialogue to end the crisis.
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UNICEF/Sparks
Despite falling attacks, ISIL terrorists remain ‘global threat’: UN report
11 February 2019
Peace and Security
Though attacks were down last year, a new United Nations report to the Security Council on Monday shows that ISIL is still a global threat, despite evolving into a “covert” terrorism network, with countries continuing to face challenges from the growing scourge of violent extremism.
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UN Women/Faith Bwibo
Engaging women and girls in science ‘vital’ for Sustainable Development Goals
11 February 2019
Women
Boosting the number of women and girls entering careers involving STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) is vital to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, UN chief António Guterres said on Monday, in a message to mark the International Day of Women and Girls in Science.
UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferre
Judicial independence under threat in Nigeria, warns UN rights expert
11 February 2019
Human Rights
The dismissal of Nigeria’s Chief Justice may constitute a grave attack on judicial independence from the State, a UN-appointed independent rights expert said on Monday, warning of “threats, pressures and interferences” made against the lawyers defending him.
Giles Clarke/OCHA
Food for millions in Yemen at risk of rotting in key Red Sea port, warns UN
11 February 2019
Humanitarian Aid
Desperately needed food aid for millions of Yemenis “is at risk of rotting” in a key Red Sea storage facility because conditions are too unsafe to reach it, UN Special Envoy Martin Griffiths and UN Emergency relief chief Mark Lowcock said on Monday
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UN Women Viet Nam/Pham Quoc Hung
More women and girls needed in the sciences to solve world’s biggest challenges
11 February 2019
SDGs
Many of the world’s biggest problems may be going unsolved because too many women and girls are being discouraged from the sciences.
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UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe
Service and sacrifice of African peacekeepers ‘at the forefront of our minds’: UN chief
10 February 2019
Peace and Security
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has thanked African Member States and the African Union Commission for supporting peace operations in Africa, saying that the service and sacrifice of African peacekeepers is “at the forefront of our minds.” The UN chief’s praise for the work of Blue Helmets and other peacekeeping personnel was part of his address to Heads of State gathered at the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Sunday.
UN Photo/Antonio Fiorente
Female African coders ‘on the front-line of the battle’ to change gender power relations: UN chief
9 February 2019
Women
Young female African coders are “on the front-line” of the battle to change traditionally male power relations and bring about a more equitable balance between men and women, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said during his visit to Ethiopia to attend the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa.
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African continent ‘an example of solidarity’ towards migrants and refugees: UN chief
9 February 2019
Migrants and Refugees
African nations are setting an example for richer countries when it comes to the treatment of refugees, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in a press conference on Saturday, following a meeting with the Chairperson of the African Union Commission in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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FROM THE FIELD: For refugees and migrants in Europe, healthcare’s essential but a challenge to find
8 February 2019
Migrants and Refugees
There are some 68.5 million people currently displaced around the world, with 25.4 million crossing national borders in search of safety.
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Scale of displacement across Myanmar ‘very difficult to gauge’, says UN refugee agency
8 February 2019
Human Rights
Concern over escalating violence in Myanmar’s Chin and Rakhine states continues to grow, with civilians reportedly forced to flee both internally, and across the border into Bangladesh, where hundreds of thousands of Rohingya have already sought shelter.
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In Tanzania, UN refugee chief praises ‘regional peacemaker’ role, and efforts to welcome neighbours on the run
8 February 2019
Migrants and Refugees
The head of the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has praised Tanzania for the long-standing welcome it offers hundreds of thousands of refugees, describing it as a “regional peacemaker” in an unstable part of Africa, that deserves more international support.
UNICEF/Julio Dengucho
‘End the ongoing atrocities’ against people with albinism in Malawi, say UN rights experts
8 February 2019
Human Rights
After a recent "savage” killing and the abduction of a one-year-old baby in Malawi, United Nations experts have urged the Government to take immediate action to protect people with albinism and “end the ongoing atrocities”.
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UN ready to rise above political fray and help Venezuelans based ‘on need, and need alone’
8 February 2019
Humanitarian Aid
The situation for ordinary Venezuelans is increasingly critical but the United Nations remains committed to providing humanitarian support, based on “need, and need alone”, said a senior aid official on Friday.
UN Women Viet Nam/Pham Quoc Hung
More women and girls needed in the sciences to solve world’s biggest challenges
8 February 2019
SDGs
Many of the world’s biggest problems may be going unsolved because too many women and girls are being discouraged from the sciences.
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As inequality grows, the UN fights for a fairer world
8 February 2019
SDGs
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development – the UN’s blueprint for a better and more sustainable future for all – calls for a reduction in inequality between and within countries. Nevertheless, global inequality is increasing. So what can be done?
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‘Antagonistic gestures and accusations’ drown out Kosovo dialogue hopes, Security Council hears
7 February 2019
Peace and Security
Prospects for a “swift resumption” of substantive talks between the leaderships of Kosovo and Serbia have been put on the back burner in recent months, by a tendency to resort instead to “antagonistic gestures and accusations” said the head of the UN Mission in Kosovo.
UN Photo/Loey Felipe
Evidence shows ‘brutal’ killing of Saudi journalist ‘planned and perpetrated’ by State officials: UN independent expert
7 February 2019
Human Rights
Evidence collected in Turkey shows on initial examination, that former dissident and journalist Jamal Khashoggi was the victim of “a brutal and premeditated killing, planned and perpetrated by officials of the State of Saudi Arabia,” according to the United Nations expert conducting an independent human rights inquiry into his death.
OCHA/Giles Clarke
Million across Yemen ‘just a step away from famine’, with food available but inaccessible
7 February 2019
Peace and Security
While nearly 10 million people across Yemen remain “just a step away from famine”, the United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator has spoken of his deep concern that a large food storage depot on the outskirts of the crucial port city of Hudaydah, has been out of bounds since last September.
UNMAS/Cengiz Yar
Mosul’s ‘3D contamination’ adds to challenges of deadly mine clearance work
7 February 2019
Peace and Security
Demining and other explosives clearance operations are ongoing in former ISIL-held areas of Iraq, but the work is painstaking and even more dangerous because of “3D contamination”, the UN Mine Action Service (UNMAS) said on Thursday.
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UNICEF/Heather Papowitz
Measles in Europe: infection rates highest in a decade, says UN health agency
7 February 2019
Health
Although more children than ever before are being vaccinated against measles across Europe, overall infection rates are the highest in a decade, and a three-fold increase on last year, according to new data published on Thursday by the World Health Organization (WHO).
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UN Photo/Laura Jarriel
UN rights chief ‘deeply concerned’ over Jehovah’s Witness sentencing in Russia
7 February 2019
Human Rights
The sentencing in Russia of a Danish Jehovah’s Witness on Thursday to six years in prison on charges of “organising the activity of a banned extremist organisation” has been described as a “dangerous precedent” by the UN human rights chief.
OCHA/P.Peron
Parliamentary bid to democratize Myanmar constitution a ‘positive development’ says UN rights expert
7 February 2019
Human Rights
A newly formed parliamentary committee to amend Myanmar’s problematic constitution was welcomed as a positive move on Thursday by Yanghee Lee, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the country.
UNMAS/Cengiz Yar
Rising landmine blast toll in Afghanistan highlights long-term care needs of survivors
6 February 2019
Peace and Security
The number of casualties in Afghanistan from landmines and other explosives has more than tripled since 2012, the UN said on Wednesday, in support of a call to provide more long-term support for survivors.
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Guterres underlines climate action urgency, as UN weather agency confirms record global warming
6 February 2019
Climate Change
In the wake of data released by the United Nations World Meteorological Organization (WMO), showing the past four years were officially the ‘four warmest on record,’ UN Secretary-General António Guterres called for urgent climate action and increased ambition, ahead of his climate summit in September.
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World Bank/Scott Wallace
Food choices today, impact health of both ‘people and planet’ tomorrow
6 February 2019
SDGs
The food we eat has huge potential to improve both human health and environmental sustainability, but too often today it is posing a threat to both people and planet, according to a new report by the EAT-Lancet Commission, launched on Tuesday at United Nations Headquarters in New York.
MINUSCA
Central African Republic: UN chief hails signing of new peace agreement
6 February 2019
Peace and Security
Following the signing of a peace agreement between the Government of the Central African Republic (CAR) and 14 non-state armed groups active in the country on Wednesday, the United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, congratulatedall stakeholders and encouraged them to now “live up to their commitments”.
UN/Syria
Largest joint UN humanitarian convoy of the war, reaches remote Syrian settlement
6 February 2019
Humanitarian Aid
The largest UN humanitarian convoy of the Syrian civil war reached the remote settlement of Rukban, on the border with Jordan on Wednesday, where it is delivering life-saving assistance to more than 40,000 displaced people, some of whom have been trapped there for years as the eight-year conflict grinds on.
UNFPA/Georgina Goodwin
With millions of girls ‘at risk’ today of genital mutilation, UN chief calls for zero tolerance
6 February 2019
Women
Female genital mutilation, is “an abhorrent human rights violation” still affecting women and girls around the globe, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stated in his message for the International Day of Zero Tolerance for FGM, marked on Wednesday.
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Nearly two-thirds of children lack access to welfare safety net, risking ‘vicious cycle of poverty’
6 February 2019
Economic Development
More than six in 10 children globally lack access to social protection, leaving them particularly vulnerable to falling into chronic poverty, the UN said on Wednesday, warning also that some governments are cutting State cash entitlements, amid continuing economic uncertainty.
UNMISS/Isaac Billy
Dramatic drop in South Sudan political violence since peace agreement signing
5 February 2019
Peace and Security
Since the signing of a September 2018 deal between the South Sudanese President Salva Kiir and his political rival and former deputy Riek Machar to end conflict in the country, political violence has “dropped dramatically,” David Shearer, head of the UN Mission in South Sudan told reporters on Tuesday.
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Safer Internet Day: ‘Be kind online’, says UNICEF, urging action to prevent cyberbullying, harassment
5 February 2019
Culture and Education
Online violence, cyberbullying and digital harassment affect over 70 per cent of young people globally, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday, calling for concerted action to tackle and prevent this form of violence.
Eunavfor
Piracy and high seas crime growing, becoming more sophisticated, UN Security Council told
5 February 2019
Law and Crime Prevention
International maritime crime is becoming “increasingly sophisticated” as criminal groups exploit jurisdiction and enforcement challenges on the high seas and pose “immediate danger to people’s lives and safety”, the UN anti-drugs and crime chief warned the Security Council on Tuesday.
UNOCHA/Giles Clarke
Libya: $202 million needed to bring life-saving aid to half a million people hit by humanitarian crisis
5 February 2019
Humanitarian Aid
The United Nations and its aid partners, together with the interim Government of Libya, launched on Tuesday a humanitarian response plan (HRP), appealing for $202 million to bring urgent life-saving assistance to some 550,000 women, children and men affected by the ongoing humanitarian crisis.
OCHA/Leni Kinzli
North-east Nigeria displacement crisis continues amid ‘increased sophistication’ of attackers, warns UN
5 February 2019
Humanitarian Aid
An upsurge in violent attacks in crisis-riven north-east Nigeria has displaced nearly 60,000 people in the last three months, the UN migration agency, IOM, said on Tuesday.
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UNICEF/Ameen AlGhabri
Confidence-building measures continue in new Yemen prisoner-swap talks
4 February 2019
Peace and Security
Yemen’s warring sides are due to meet for fresh discussions on a prisoner exchange agreement, the UN’s Special Envoy for the war-torn country announced on Monday.
UN Photo/Evan Schneider
World must do more to tackle ‘shadowy’ mercenary activities undermining stability in Africa, says UN chief
4 February 2019
Peace and Security
With mercenaries undermining global peace and security and weakening States’ capacities to protect their people, the UN Security Council on Monday shone its spotlight on their activities as a source of destabilization in Africa.
UNCTAD/Jan Hoffmann
Neither side stands to benefit in US-China trade spat, UN says
4 February 2019
Economic Development
The tit-for-tat trade dispute between China and the United States may do little to protect domestic producers in either country and could have “massive” implications on the global economy unless it is resolved, United Nations experts said on Monday.
Pan American Health Organization
World Cancer Day: Early cervical cancer diagnosis could save lives of over 300,000 women
4 February 2019
Health
Cervical cancer kills more than 300,000 women every year, with one woman diagnosed every minute, despite the fact that it is one of the most preventable and curable forms of the disease.
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UN chief hopes for new agreement after Israel concludes international observation mission
2 February 2019
Peace and Security
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres expressed his gratitude to the Temporary International Presence in Hebron (TIPH), West Bank, after Israel decided not to renew its mandate.
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UN calls for support to implement Central Africa’s newly minted peace agreement
2 February 2019
Peace and Security
After 10 days of negotiations, the Central African government and 14 armed groups reached a peace agreement on Saturday, according to a tweet from the United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA).
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UN chief welcomes new Government in Lebanon, after eight-month impasse
1 February 2019
Law and Crime Prevention
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres welcomed, on Friday, the announcement of a new Government in Lebanon; the result of eight months of negotiation, following general elections last May.
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World in grip of ‘high impact weather’ as US freezes, Australia sizzles, parts of South America deluged
1 February 2019
Climate Change
“High impact weather” has gripped much of the world so far this year, the UN weather agency, WMO, reported on Friday, with “dangerous and extreme cold in North America, record high heat and wildfires in Australia, heavy rains in parts of South America, and heavy snow on the Alps and Himalayas.
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe
‘No other possibility but to leave’: UN News special report from the Nigeria-Cameroon border as 35,000 newly-displaced seek safety
1 February 2019
Humanitarian Aid
Small shelters, some covered in the ubiquitous white sheeting provided by the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), dot the dusty grey sun-bleached plain around the village of Goura, in the far north-east of Cameroon.
UN Photo/Manuel Elias
Call to revitalize ‘language of the ancestors’ for survival of future generations: Indigenous chief
1 February 2019
Human Rights
Hundreds of ancestral languages have gone silent in recent generations, taking with them the culture, knowledge and traditions of the people who spoke them. To preserve and revitalize those that remain, the United Nations on Friday officially launched the International Year of Indigenous Languages, at UN Headquarters in New York.
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Six months into DR Congo’s deadliest Ebola outbreak, top UN official praises ‘brave’ response effort
1 February 2019
Health
“Brave” UN teams and partners leading the fight against deadly Ebola disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) along with Government authorities and peacekeepers there, have been key in helping protect communities, a top World Health Organization (WHO) official said on Friday, six months after the latest outbreak began.
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Aid stepped up to Syria camp; new arrivals say terrorists blocked their escape
1 February 2019
Humanitarian Aid
Harrowing details continue to emerge of thousands of families who have risked their lives fleeing fighting in Syria’s last ISIL terrorist-held enclave, as UN humanitarians warned on Friday that children are still dying on their way to an overcrowded camp for the displaced, amid access problems and perishing cold.
