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January 22, 2022
From Milan to Glasgow, young Moroccans commit to fighting climate change
NUKU'ALOFA — As news coverage of the eruption and tsunami that hit Tonga starts to fade away, the United Nations Coordination Specialist in the country has a message to the outside world: Tonga’s people are going to need sustained support responding to a disaster of this scale.“The resources that we have in the ground are not enough,” Sione Hufanga explained, in an interview on Saturday morning local time, with UN News. “We ought to always look at the situation and ask, have we done enough, for this very small country, isolated in the Pacific islands?”The underwater volcano eruption of a week ago, is believed to be the largest volcanic event to occur for 30 years.The huge, 20 km high mushroom cloud of smoke and ash, and the tsunami that followed, affected 84,000 people,...
January 22, 2022
UN coordinator in Tonga: ‘Resources on the ground are not enough’
NEW YORK — At a time when “the only certainty is more uncertainty”, countries must unite to forge a new, more hopeful and equal path, UN Secretary-General António Guterres told the General Assembly on Friday, laying out his priorities for 2022.“We face a five-alarm global fire that requires the full mobilization of all countries,” he said, referring to the raging COVID-19 pandemic, a morally bankrupt global financial system, the climate crisis, lawlessness in cyberspace, and diminished peace and security.He stressed that countries “must go into emergency mode”, and now is the time to act as the response will determine global outcomes for decades ahead.Alarm 1: The COVID-19 battle Stopping coronavirus spread must be at the top of the agenda everywhere, said Guterres, calling...
January 22, 2022
UN chief calls for action to put out ‘5-alarm global fire’
January 22, 2022
UN relief chief pledges support for Nigeria
January 22, 2022
Urgent action needed to protect Vietnamese workers trafficked to Serbia
January 22, 2022
1.5 million children lack treatment for severe wasting in Eastern and Southern Africa
GENEVA — For the first time in weeks, aid teams have reached refugee camps in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, only to find that some Eritrean nationals living there have likely died of preventable diseases, while others are “scared and struggling to get enough to eat”, the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, said on Friday.More than 25,000 refugees live in Mai Aini and Adi Harush refugee camps in Tigray, where UNHCR has urged all parties to the conflict to guarantee safe passage, so that they can be relocated to the neighboring Amara region.“After three weeks with no access due to the security situation, UNHCR staff members managed to reach Mai Aini and Adi Harush refugee camps in the Tigray region of Ethiopia earlier this week for the first time, since the recent air strikes in and near the...
January 22, 2022
Eritrean refugees ‘scared and struggling to eat’ amid aid obstacles
January 22, 2022
Booster shots needed against omicron, CDC studies show
January 22, 2022
Man arrested for indecent exposure at public in Dubai
January 22, 2022
Former aides to ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy jailed for opinion poll fraud
