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Car Bomb Explosion Hits Somalia Capital, Killing at Least 76
A massive car bomb explosion has hit a busy security checkpoint in Somalia capital, Mogadishu, killing at least 76 people and leaving dozens of others wounded.
Police said a truck bomb went off in a busy area prone to heavy traffic due…
OPCW Official Ordered Removal of Report Disproving Syria Chemical Attack Claims
Wikileaks has leaked new documents regarding the probe by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) into an alleged chemical attack in Syria, showing that a senior OPCW official ordered the removal of a "dissenting"…
Secretary-General condemns ‘horrendous’ Somalia car bomb attack
Perpetrators behind the deadly terrorist attack in Somalia on Saturday must be brought to justice, the UN Secretary-General has said.
At least 79 people died and scores more were wounded when a car bomb…
MSF treats 1.2 million patients in Yemen during 4 years of war
The Doctors Without Borders (MSF) organization said on Friday that it has treated more than 1.2 million patients in Yemen since the war began in early 2015.
“From March 2015 until September 2019, one million and 213 thousand patients were…
Over 2 million Yemenis suffering from cholera
The United Nations had announced on Thursday that 2.2 million suspected cases of cholera have been registered in Yemen, between the beginning of the disease outbreak in 2017 until mid-November 2019.
The International Organisation for…
ICRC: Almost 18 million Yemenis lack safe water and sanitation services
About 17.8 million people in Yemen lack access to safe water and sanitation services as a result of the ongoing war in Yemen, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Thursday.
The ICRC delegation in Yemen indicated on…
Independent UN rights experts raise alarm over ‘incommunicado detention’ of Chinese scholar
Independent United Nations human rights experts expressed apprehension on Thursday over the “incommunicado detention” of a Uyghur Muslim academic who has reportedly been sentenced to death.
The whereabouts of…
Haiti: Food insecurity expected to rise next year, UN humanitarian agency reports
The number of Haitians who do not have sufficient food to eat is expected to surpass four million next year, the UN humanitarian affairs office, OCHA, said on Friday.
OCHA reports that deteriorating…
Accelerating towards a fairer future
Cutting child mortality by a third in Brazil, reaching carbon neutrality in Finland and redirecting trillions of dollars of investment to funds that promote sustainability: these are some examples of initiatives from…
UN refugee agency welcomes move to register all births in Kazakhstan
The decision to ensure that all babies born in Kazakhstan are registered at birth and issued birth certificates has been welcomed by the UN refugee agency, UNHCR.
The country this month amended its Code on…