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WFP pleads aid access in Sudan, cites starvation
Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
UNITED NATIONS, 3rd Feb. World Food Programme on Friday said that the number of hungry people in Sudan has doubled over the past year, added that it is receiving reports of people dying from starvation.
WFP …
UNESCO named Vinícius Junior as new Goodwill Ambassador
Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
UNITED NATIONS, 3rd Feb. The head of the UNESCO on Friday named the Brazilian football sensation Vinícius Junior as their new Goodwill Ambassador for Education for All in a ceremony held at football giant Real…
Rights experts calls Taliban to end crackdown on women over ‘bad Hijab’
Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
UNITED NATIONS, 3rd Feb. UN human rights experts on Friday expressed grave concern over multiple reports of arbitrary arrests, detention and ill-treatment of women and girls in Afghanistan.
The experts noted…
Top official condemns deadly attack on aid workers in Ukraine
Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
UNITED NATIONS, 3rd Feb. UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Ukraine Denise Brown on Friday has condemned a deadly attack on aid workers in the south of Ukraine.
She said that 2 French citizens volunteering with a…
2 South African peacekeepers injured in attack on UN helicopter in DR Congo
Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
UNITED NATIONS, 3rd Feb. According to the UN mission in DRC on Friday 2 South African peacekeepers were injured, one seriously, in an attack on a UN helicopter in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
UN…
OCHA appeals urgent funds for drought hit Ethiopia
Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
UNITED NATIONS, 3rd Feb. UN humanitarian aid office and the Government of Ethiopia on Friday have appealed for urgent funding to respond the rising hunger and drought in the northern Ethiopia.
OCHA reported that…
OHCHR cites rising violence in Haiti
Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
UNITED NATIONS, 2nd Feb. UN Human rights report released on Thursday cited that the last quarter of 2023 saw rise in violence across Haiti, with reports of 2,327 victims of murder, wounding and kidnapping,…
Blue helmets provide new humanitarian corridor in DR Congo
Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
UNITED NATIONS, 2nd Feb. According to UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric on Thursday in New York told correspondents that peacekeepers are “continuing to do their utmost to protect civilians” in the North Kivu…
UN reports deaths, injuries, destruction continues in Ukraine-Russia war
Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
UNITED NATIONS, 2nd Feb. UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric on Thursday told reporters in a regular press briefing in New York that new attacks in eastern Ukraine have led to injuries and damage to civilian…
OHCHR head voices deep shock at 25 people executed in Mali
Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
UNITED NATIONS, 2nd Feb. UN human rights chief Volker Türk on Thursday voiced shock at credible reports alleged that Malian armed forces and foreign military personnel executed at least 25 people last week, in a…