Archive for September 15th, 2024

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15/09/2024

“A Race against Time”: Pregnant Djamila’s Journey to Hospital by Canoe in Flood-Ravaged Cameroon

Human Wrongs Watch

FAR NORTH REGION, Cameroon, 11 September 2024 (UNFPA)* -– As Djamila* clutched her pregnant belly, the floodwaters rose around her, threatening to engulf the fragile canoe she had escaped in.

A woman stands in floodwater surrounding a collapsed wooden gate and a house with a thatched roof
A pregnant woman is stranded by her house amid recent flooding in Cameroon’s Far North region. Credit: UNFPA Cameroon / Samuel Sawalda

“The water was everywhere,” she told UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency. “I was so scared – not just for myself, but for my babies. Every minute felt like an eternity.”

At 18, this was her first pregnancy – and she was expecting twins.

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15/09/2024

Escalation in West Bank Signals Risk of Further Atrocities

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By Akshaya Kumar | Human Rights Watch*

12 September 2024 — In recent days Israeli security forces in the West Bank have reportedly blocked medical workers from getting to people in need, dug up roads making them impassable, and used airstrikes and drones launching missiles to kill dozens of Palestinians, including children.


An explosion is seen during an Israeli military operation in the West Bank city of Jenin, September 5, 2024.© 2024 Majdi Mohammed/AP Photo

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15/09/2024

Nigeria: Hundreds of Thousands in Need of Aid as Flooding Wipes Out Homes – World Food Programme

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(UN News)* — UN humanitarians are rushing to assist scores of newly displaced people in northeast Nigeria, after torrential rains caused a dam to collapse and flood the area, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday [].

Millions remain displaced across Nigeria due to conflict, climate change impacts and natural disasters. In this file photo, a girl carries water to her shelter at an IDP camp in the country's northeast. (file)
© UNICEF/KC Nwakalor | Millions remain displaced across Nigeria due to conflict, climate change impacts and natural disasters. In this file photo, a girl carries water to her shelter at an IDP camp in the country’s northeast. (file)
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Alau Dam, located just over 10 miles to the south of Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State, collapsed in the middle of the night on Tuesday, forcing hundreds of thousands from their homes.

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15/09/2024

Gaza’s GDP Plummeted 81% in the Last Quarter of 2023, Leaving Its Economy in Ruins

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12 September 2024 (UNCTAD)* — The staggering scale of economic devastation and unprecedented decline in economic activity far surpasses the impact of all previous military confrontations.

A family carries their belongings as they walk across rubble and ruin in Gaza.
© UNRWA | A family carries their belongings as they walk across rubble and ruin in Gaza.
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UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has released a comprehensive report detailing the profound economic destruction that has gripped the Occupied Palestinian Territory in the aftermath of the Israeli military operation in Gaza that followed the 7 October 2023 attacks by Hamas.

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