Archive for March 29th, 2025

29/03/2025

“All the Dark Clouds of a Perfect Storm Have Descended Upon the People of South Sudan… ”

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(UN News)* — UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned on Friday of a rapidly deteriorating crisis in South Sudan, calling for urgent dialogue, the immediate release of detained officials and renewed commitment to the 2018 peace agreement. 

Girls wash at a water tap installed by UNICEF in a camp for displaced people in Bentiu, South Sudan.
© UNICEF | Girls wash at a water tap installed by UNICEF in a camp for displaced people in Bentiu, South Sudan.
 
“All the dark clouds of a perfect storm have descended upon the people of the world’s newest country – and one of the poorest,” Mr. Guterres told reporters at UN Headquarters in New York.

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29/03/2025

Yemen: 20 Million People Rely on Aid to Survive – IOM Chief Sounds Alarm as Yemen Marks a Decade of War and Humanitarian Despair

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By the International Organization for Migration (IOM)*

With the war entering its eleventh year, countless Yemenis are still waiting for a chance to rebuild their lives. Photo: IOM/Majed Mohammed

Geneva/ Sana’a, 26 March 2025  -– As Yemen enters its eleventh year of conflict, the country remains in the grip of relentless suffering.

Close to 20 million people rely on aid to survive, with many having endured repeated displacement, rising hunger, and the collapse of essential services.

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29/03/2025

Gaza: ‘Acts of War Bear Hallmarks of Atrocity Crimes’ – UN Humanitarians

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(UN News)* — Lifesaving supplies in Gaza continue to run dangerously low, nearly four weeks into the total aid blockade and deadly bombardment of the enclave by Israel, UN humanitarians said on Friday .

Household possessions are moved by truck in Gaza.
© UNICEF | Household possessions are moved by truck in Gaza.

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29/03/2025

Carnage in Gaza and ‘Global 195’*

Human Wrongs Watch

By Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST – TRANSCEND Media Service*

Even by Israel’s brutal, barbaric standards, the cruel, callous carnage carried out by its military in Gaza has come as a shock to the world.

The carnage which occurred on Tuesday 18th March 2025 killed 436 individuals, the majority of them children and women.

What has exacerbated the tragedy is the fact that the carnage happened as its victims were preparing for, or partaking of, their dawn meal just before beginning their daily fast during Ramadan, one of Islam’s most revered practices.

It is important to note that a big portion of the Gazan population is being subjected to starvation by the Israeli government as a way of forcing them out of the Strip.

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