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Avian flu risk still ‘low’ after first US patient dies from H5N1 virus: WHO
07 January 2025
A day after the United States reported its first human death from avian flu, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) insisted on Tuesday that the risk to the wider population remains “low”.
WHO spokesperson Dr. Margaret Harris told reporters in Geneva that the H5N1 virus causing…
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More than 5,600 killed in Haiti gang violence in 2024
07 January 2025
At least 5,601 people were killed in gang violence in Haiti last year, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on Tuesday, appealing for greater efforts by the authorities and the international community to address the root causes.
These deaths represent an increase of over 1,000 on the total killings…
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New Permanent Representative of Sao Tome and Principe Presents Credentials to the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva
07 January 2025
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Abigail Tiny Cosme Bonfim, the new Permanent Representative of Sao Tome and Principe to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented her credentials to Tatiana Valovaya, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.Prior to…
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First Person: Gaza, where starving people are trapped in a land reduced to rubble
06 January 2025
“We saw dead bodies scattered to the left and right, decomposing in the sun”, recounts Jonathan Dumont, Head of Emergency Communications at the World Food Programme (WFP). A veteran of conflict zones around the world, he says that the destruction and suffering he witnessed in Gaza is on a “different scale…
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World News in Brief: Communal violence in South Sudan, Syria and Gaza updates
06 January 2025
Communal violence remains the primary driver of conflict in South Sudan and continues to exact a heavy toll on civilians across the country, UN peacekeepers said on Monday.
In an update covering July to September last year, the UN Mission in South Sudan – or UNMISS – expressed…
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Gaza war: UN World Food Programme condemns Israeli attack on aid convoy
06 January 2025
Israeli airstrikes continued across Gaza overnight into Monday, while the UN World Food Programme (WFP) reported that one of its aid convoys in the war-shattered enclave was targeted by Israeli fire on Sunday.
The WFP issued a statement on Monday condemning the attack insisting that…
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‘Famine conditions are spreading’ as Sudan’s crisis worsens: Security Council
06 January 2025
Human suffering in Sudan has reached devastating levels, with over 11.5 million people internally displaced and 3.2 million seeking refuge in neighbouring countries.
Addressing the Security Council on Monday, Edem Wosornu, Director of the Advocacy and Operations Division at the…
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Young Venezuelan refugees get a fresh start in Trinidad’s schools
04 January 2025
Until recently, Venezuela child refugees and migrants in Trinidad and Tobago were barred from State-run schools. This year, a change in the law backed by the United Nations means that several dozen were able to benefit from formal education.
When 11-year-old Venezuelan refugee Astrid Saavedra…
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World Braille Day 2025
04 January 2025
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Recently installed at the Palais des Nations, braille orientation tables mark an…
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Syria: UN teams support cholera vaccination in northeastern camps
03 January 2025
In northeast Syria, UN teams pressed ahead with a lifesaving cholera vaccine campaign in Al Hol detention camp complex on Friday, despite rumours of attacks by ISIL extremists and uncertainty across the war-torn country, following the overthrow of the Assad regime.
The cholera outbreak was…
