(UN News)* — Unprecedented aid cuts are putting global progress to end maternal deaths at risk, three UN agencies warned in a new report that calls for greater investment in midwives and other health workers.
The escalation of violent conflict in recent months has pushed hundreds of thousands of people in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) into desperate conditions, warns the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) Secretary General Jan Egeland on a visit this week.
A school site in Nyiragongo, north of the city of Goma, where 300 families are now sheltering in cramped conditions and without functioning latrines or fuel to cook. As fighting flared in January this year, hundreds of other families fled the site, often to areas which have been badly hit by years of conflict. Photo: Ed Prior/NRC
2 April 2025 — Displaced families sheltering at temporary sites have once again been forced to flee, as fighting and abuse plunge people into life-threatening situations.
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