Gaza humanitarian update, rights experts’ appeal over aid accessSudan: Civilians ‘are trapped’ in El-Fasher, warns UN’s Türk ‘Just in case’ antibiotics widely overused during COVID-19, says UN health agency

News in Brief 26 April 2024

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Gaza: 80,000 flee Rafah amid Israeli military escalation fears, say UN humanitarians Former Guantanamo Bay detainee faces re-victimisation in Algeria, right experts warn Early data on vaccine ‘patches’ is welcome news in battle against measles: WHO 

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A vast array of weaponry has been used in the last seven months of conflict in Gaza, so much so that UN mine action experts say that land potentially contaminated with unexploded ordnance will take years to make safe. Patrick McCabe is a UN Mine Action Service (UNMAS) veteran whose job is to help civilians move around Gaza as safely as possible, now and when the fighting ends. He spoke to UN News’s Daniel Johnson, about what he’d seen in the shattered enclave so far.

Unexploded weapons: One of many existential threats in Gaza

Gaza: No aid is coming through the south, confirms @UNRWA Unprecedented flooding displaces hundreds of thousands across east Africa: IOMNo respite in sight for Brazil suffering flood emergency: WMO

News in Brief 8 May 2024

Uncertainty in Gaza amplified by closure of key border crossingsRussia: UN rights chief troubled by increasing crackdown on journalistsDRC: more than 80,000 newly displaced people amid new fighting in Kivu 

News in Brief 7 May 2024

We won't abandon Gazans sheltering in Rafah, says UNRWASeven months into the war in Gaza, deep fears over unexploded ordnance threatUrgent appeal launched for Yemen where 18.2 million people need lifesaving assistance 

News in Brief 26 April 2024

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