18/02/2019
Increased vigilance, strict monitoring and early control needed to prevent further swarms forming and spread along both sides of the Red Sea.
The desert locust is the world’s most dangerous migratory pest capable of flying up to 150 km a day with the wind.
ROME,15 February 2019 (FAO)* – Heavy rains and cyclones have triggered a recent surge in Desert Locust populations, causing an outbreak to develop in Sudan and Eritrea that is rapidly spreading along both sides of the Red Sea to Saudi Arabia and Egypt, FAO warned on 15 February 2019.
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18/02/2019
18 February 2019 (Wall Street International)* — His withered shoulders hunched over the table, the beekeeper carefully slices open the plain brown package with his pocket knife.
From out the tiny wood and mesh cage, sticky with cane sugar and honey, they all fly, buzzing Up! Up! Up!into the air in hovering spirals. We jump back thinking that these suddenly unleashed bees would dash about the room, stingers prone for suicidal attack.
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17/02/2019
15 February 2019 — The students in the Tanzanian town of Bagamoyo once had to decide between getting sick or being thirsty all day long.*
UNICEF/Kate Holt | Students in Tanzania enjoy fresh water for drinking, washing and cooking.
Drought, rising sea levels and erratic rainfall made the local water well so salty that when they drank, they would get headaches, stomach aches and even ulcers. Unsanitary conditions turned it into a disease-spreading font.
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17/02/2019
February 2019 (UNHCR)* — A growing number of cities around the world are embracing refugees. This series looks at how they are helping the displaced to help themselves.
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A majority of the world’s 25.4 million refugees live out of camps and in cities and urban areas across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
Finding themselves on the frontlines of the global refugee response, an increasing number of cities are choosing to empower refugees and embrace the opportunities they bring.
Reported in cities around the world, these stories look at the steps they are taking to help refugees, and the impact they have of the lives of the forcibly displaced.
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17/02/2019
14 Fbruary 2019 (UN Environment)* — World to Zero in on Solutions for the Future at UN Environment Assembly
- UN calls for governments, public and private sector to take a critical look at their consumption and production patterns, urging to “Think Beyond, Live Within.”
- Countries to make measurable commitments toward stimulating innovation and implementing circular economy systems.
- Resolutions expected to cover the mainstreaming of biodiversity and the sound management of chemicals and waste, the use of big data, information management, indigenous knowledge solutions, the promotion of sustainable lifestyles and the efficient use of resources.
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17/02/2019
Barkissa Fofana, a young microbiologist from Burkina Faso, is confident that science can help combat climate change and desertification. ©FAO/Gideon Vink
“Something has to be done to tackle the environmental problems caused by climate change, desertification and population growth,” says Barkissa from an Acacia field just outside the city of Djibo in Burkina Faso’s northern Sahel region.
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16/02/2019
14 February 2019 (UN Environment)* — The students at Kingani school in the Tanzanian town of Bagamoyo used to have two choices for drinking water at school: get sick or remain thirsty.
Rising sea levels, increased drought and reduced or erratic rainfall made the drinking wells so salty it would cause headaches, stomach aches and ulcers. To make matters worse, the water that students would spend time fetching from watering holes was so dirty that it spread disease.
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16/02/2019
16 February 2019 (FAO)* — In a vast world of 7 billion people where all you hear about are our differences, there are some important things that connect us, and one of these is food. Food connects us all. We all need it, depend on it, survive because of it and derive happiness from it.
The story of food begins with a farmer. Why do we give our chefs stars and awards, but we forget about the part our food producers play? ©135pixels/Shutterstock | Photo from FAO.
In fact, food is part of who we are. It’s part of our habits and cultures. Hundreds of TV shows, movies and podcasts revolve around the topic of food, and cookbooks always sit among the bestsellers.
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16/02/2019
15 February 2019 — A surge in sexual violence in South Sudan’s Unity state targeting victims as young as eight years old, has prompted a call from the UN human rights office, OHCHR, for urgent Government measures to protect victims, and bring perpetrators to justice.
UNMISS/Isaac Billy | The intensification of road patrols followed shocking .incidents of rape and sexual assault, reported in the area in recent weeks.
Despite the signing of a peace deal between belligerents last September, UN investigators found that at least 175 women and girls have been raped or suffered other sexual and physical violence between September and December 2018.
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16/02/2019
15 February 2019 — Fawaz, just 18-months old, suffered from severe acute malnutrition and was on the brink of death. In war-torn Yemen, he was one of hundreds of thousands of children, more likely to die, than survive.
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