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Erasure or empowerment? In Africa’s Sahel, women confront a stark choice
Risks to women and girls across this vast region are severe and systemic, as political instability, environmental collapse…
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Regional coverage across the Middle East.
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Afghan women returnees face rising risks, UN warns
UN Women – which champions gender empowerment and equality – alongside the international humanitarian agency CARE International and…
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Gaza: Hospitals ‘at near-total collapse’, staff overwhelmed by the injured
Meanwhile, UN agencies confirmed the deaths of three Palestinians from Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS), a rare auto-immune disease that…
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SECURITY COUNCIL LIVE: Israel calls for focus on Gaza hostages’ plight
The Security Council is meeting to discuss rising concern in Israel and elsewhere over the dire conditions facing…
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Syria: Ceasefire under strain as violence and aid access issues persist in Sweida
The 19 July truce followed weeks of sectarian clashes, Israeli airstrikes and grave human rights violations in the…
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Children are ‘skin and bones’ as Sudan marks a grim milestone
It is a grim milestone for Sudan, the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. But with insufficient funding, lack of…
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Just 1.5 per cent of Gaza’s agricultural land remains accessible and undamaged
A new report from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the UN Satellite Centre (UNOSAT) reveals that…
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Ceasefire in doubt as Rwanda-backed rebels kill hundreds in eastern DR Congo
The UN human rights office (OHCHR) said it had received first-hand accounts indicating that at least 319 civilians…
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Gaza crisis deepens as UN warns children are ‘dying before reaching hospital’
With 96 per cent of households lacking clean water, many malnourished children are not surviving long enough to…
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Hiroshima, 80 years on: ‘Real change’ needed to end existential nuclear threat
While the city has been rebuilt, nuclear conflict remains a global threat, UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs…