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UN agency begins COVID vaccine rollout for 7,500 stranded migrants in Yemen |
IOM’s Chief of Mission, Christa Rottensteiner, explained that “immunizing people on the move is key to combatting the spread of the disease.” An estimated...
COVID-19 leads to over 50 million more hungry people in Asia-Pacific |
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF)’s 2021 Asia and the Pacific Regional Overview of Food...
COVID-19 cases and deaths in the Americas triple in 2021 |
Dr. Carissa Etienne, Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), delivered her final briefing of the year, providing a...
COVID cases surging in Africa at fastest rate this year, but deaths remain low |
Updated forecasts warn that Africa may not reach 70 per cent vaccine coverage until August 2024, WHO’s new pandemic assessment...
COVID-19: Don’t underestimate Omicron, WHO chief warns |
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization, told reporters from WHO headquarters in Geneva that the variant was...
No return to normal without universal COVID jabs: General Assembly President |
“Unless we can vaccinate the world, there is no way out of this. You see different types of variants coming...
COP26 defined by ‘reinvigorated multilateralism’ |
“The Glasgow Climate Pact to keep global warming to 1.5C and the other important commitments are a sign of progress”,...
38℃ record Arctic temperature confirmed, others likely to follow: WMO |
Worryingly, the temperature reading taken last June in the Siberian town of Verkhoyansk – which is located 115 kilometres north...
Land and water ecosystems, ‘stressed to a critical point’
Land and water resources are “stressed to a critical point”, following significant deterioration over the past decade, according to a major new report released on Thursday by the UN Food and Agriculture...
Climate change fuels violence and mass displacement in Cameroon |
The development is just the latest episode in the difficult relationship between the region’s herders, fishermen and farmers, who have...
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