
Mariya, a 14-year-old orphan and survivor of sexual assault in the DRC. Photo: Helen Vesperini/UN Migration Agency (IOM) 2017
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Mariya, a 14-year-old orphan and survivor of sexual assault in the DRC. Photo: Helen Vesperini/UN Migration Agency (IOM) 2017
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As the Bay of Bengal region gears up for cyclone and monsoon seasons, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is warning that more than half-a-millon Rohingya children already living in “horrific” conditions in makeshift settlements in Bangladesh may face compounded risks of disease and displacement.
A seven-year-old Rohingya girl carries a pot of water to her family’s makeshift shelter after filling it at a hand operated water pump at the Bormapara makeshift settlement in Ukhia, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Photo: UNICEF/Sujan
15 January 2018 – TRANSCEND Media Service — According to the ruling by Beer Sheva MagistrateMagistrate Magistrate Court Judge Yoav Atar, Sheikh Sayah Abu Medigham Al Touri is a criminal who deserves a ten-month prison sentence because he invaded lands that he claims are his.
Amos Gvirtz
This sentence was given before the court even reached a ruling about the ownership issue of the said land.
The judge ruled that Sheikh Sayah be sent to prison for ten months and pay a 36,000 shekel fine, in addition to a suspended sentence of five months in prison effective if and when he enter the area of Al Araqib again.
These are lands that Sheikh Sayah’s great-grandfather purchased in 1905 from someone in the Al Uqbi tribe around the area of Al Araqib.
As the brutal conflict in Yemen nears its grim third anniversary, malnutrition and disease are running rampant in the country and virtually every child there is dependent on humanitarian aid to survive, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on 16 January 2018 said.
With up to 20 people sharing a room, diseases such as measles and respiratory infections are a significant threat in Yemen, especially for children already reeling from malnutrition and dealing with inadequate water and sanitation facilities. Photo: OCHA/Eman
On top of the already-desperate conditions in Syria’s war-ravaged East Ghouta and north-west Idlib governorate, a violence upsurge is intensifying insecurity, the United Nations food relief agency on 16 January 2018 said.
Inter-agency convoy to Duma, east Ghouta in the buffer-zone crossing the conflict line. Photo: OCHA/Ghalia Seifo (file)
“Since the end of last year, airstrikes have destroyed numerous civilian buildings, killing hundreds of people in both places and, in the case of Idlib, displacing some 100,000 people,” said UN World Food Programme (WFP) Senior Communications Officer Bettina Luescher in Geneva.