(excerpt) Gaza Turning to the situation in Gaza and more particularly at Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza city, I can tell you that we are planning a mission to the hospital as soon as we can get there to...
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(excerpt) Gaza Turning to the situation in Gaza and more particularly at Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza city, I can tell you that we are planning a mission to the hospital as soon as we can get there to...
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(excerpt) Central African Republic Moving on to the Central African Republic, our colleagues from the peacekeeping mission there (MINUSCA) tell us that, following an attack last month in the village...
(excerpt) Ukraine Turning to Ukraine, I can tell you that we strongly condemn the latest wave of Russian attacks against critical infrastructure in various parts of the country, which reportedly...
(excerpt). Malawi In Malawi, our colleagues from the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) tell us that relief efforts continue three months after Tropical Cyclone Freddy. We and...
(Excerpt) Rwanda The Emergency Relief Coordinator, Martin Griffiths, has allocated $1.5 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to support the Government-led response to the floods...
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Sudan Turning to Sudan, we along with our humanitarian partners are continuing to scale up our response to spiralling needs all over the country. The World Health Organization (WHO) has delivered 30...
(excerpt) Ukraine Turning to Ukraine: Our humanitarian colleagues there are telling us that, this morning, three trucks with UN humanitarian supplies off-loaded their cargo in Chasiv Yar, which is...
(excerpt) The Gambia A quick update from the Gambia, where our team there is assisting the Government following the deaths of a number of children due to acute kidney injury in the last two and a...
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(Excerpts) Ukraine Turning to Ukraine, the Humanitarian Coordinator, Denise Brown, and the Emergency Coordinator for the World Food Programme (WFP) in Ukraine, Matthew Hollingworth, today condemned...
(excerpt) Eswatini And staying in Africa but moving south, in Eswatini, the UN team there, led by Resident Coordinator George Wachira, continues to strengthen Eswatini’s responses to the impacts of...
(excerpt) Chad Turning to Chad, our humanitarian colleagues tell us that torrential rains have killed 22 people and destroyed more than 2,000 hectares of farmland since June. More than 110,000 people...
(Excerpts) Central African Republic The United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) continues to work to protect civilians and to expel...
(Excerpts) Afghanistan Turning to Afghanistan. Our humanitarian colleagues there tell us that, yesterday, a 5.1-magnitude earthquake hit in the provinces of Khost and Paktika in the country’s east...
(Excerpts) Afghanistan From Afghanistan, our humanitarian colleagues there tell us that the rate of flash flooding has increased in the past week. Since 5 July, flash floods have killed 39 people —...
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Excerpt War in Ukraine Dr Dorit Nitzan, Ukraine Crisis Incident Manager at the World Health Organization, speaking from Odessa, Ukraine, said that the WHO mission to Mykolaiv and Odessa was to assess...
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(excerpts) Afghanistan - COVID-19 Quick update on COVID-19 on what our team in Afghanistan is doing, led by the Resident Coordinator, Ramiz Alakbarov. The UN team has been helping the health sector...
(excerpts) Maldives — COVID-19 A quick update from the Maldives where our UN team, led by Resident Coordinator Catherine Haswell, is doing to help authorities tackle the multiple impacts of COVID-19. ...
SECRETARY-GENERAL/UKRAINE The Secretary-General is deeply concerned by the continuing attacks on Ukrainian cities across the country, including most recently Lviv, Dnipro, Kharkiv and Mykolaiv, which...
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(excerpts) Ethiopia And staying in the Horn of Africa, on Ethiopia, I can tell you that we and our humanitarian partners have not been able to move any further aid into Tigray by road since the...
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(excerpts) Mali Turning to Mali, the UN peacekeeping mission in the country — MINUSMA — has launched an investigation following reports that civilians were killed during clashes last week between the...