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Nimco holding newly harvested onions. Photo: Abdirashad Ilyaas/NRC
“The journey was terrifying. We faced hunger, thirst and walked for days with nowhere to go,” the 45-year-old mother recalls.
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05/05/2025
‘Worsening Funding Crisis Increases Danger and Risks for Refugees’
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()* — The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) warned on Friday [] that a worsening funding crisis is placing refugees – who cannot return home due to war or persecution – in increasing danger.
UNHCR said that two-thirds of countries hosting refugees are already severely overstretched and urgently need support to continue providing education, healthcare and shelter.
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04/05/2025
Front-line Midwives: Three Reasons to Support These Humanitarian Health Workers amid a Global Funding Crisis
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By the UN Population Fund*
UNITED NATIONS, New York, 2 May 2025 – “This week, I assisted 19 deliveries – two of which were life-threatening emergencies,” said Espérance, a midwife at Kyeshero General Hospital in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
“We’re working in difficult conditions, with the fear of not being able to save everyone. But we’re holding on.”
Each year, three quarters of all maternal deaths occur in just 25 countries, the majority of which are in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
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03/05/2025
‘Journalism Facing New Threats from Artificial Intelligence and Censorship’
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(UN News)* — Countries must do everything to ensure that free and independent news reporting can thrive, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said on in a message to mark World Press Freedom Day.
“Amidst spiraling conflict, climate chaos, growing divisions, and a rapidly changing digital landscape, a free press is more vital than ever,” said Volker Türk.
Furthermore, “the media help us understand the world around us and encourage critical thinking and dialogue.”
Threats and deaths
Free and independent media are the best antidote to disinformation but press freedom is under threat in every region of the world, he warned.
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03/05/2025
‘Journalists Face Attacks, Detentions, Censorship, Intimidation, Violence and Even Death — Simply for Doing Their Jobs’
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By the UN Secretary General, António Guterres*
In a world plagued by conflict and division, World Press Freedom Day highlights a fundamental truth:
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02/05/2025
Aid Cuts Hit Ethiopia’s Malnourished Children, Jeopardizing Life-Saving Response
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By Elshaday Gebeyehu, Jessica Lawson and Elizabeth Bryant | World Food Programme*
WFP warns millions at risk of growing hunger and malnutrition as country is buffeted by a raft of shocks
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22 April 2025 — At a crowded health post in northern Ethiopia, Belaynesh Berihu cradles tiny daughter Eldana, as a health worker slips a coloured tape around the infant’s arm to gauge malnourishment.
“She eats very little, she doesn’t have an appetite,” says Berihu, whose daughter weighed less than 2 kg at birth. Berihu, too, is painfully thin – surviving on a diet of mostly wheat and teff-based bread.
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02/05/2025
‘Millions Will Die from Funding Cuts’
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(UN News)* — Lifesaving operations everywhere continue to be shut down by sweeping funding cutbacks which will result in millions of people dying, the UN’s top aid official said on Wednesday [].
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01/05/2025
Stuck in the Middle? Indebted Nations Plot Path to Growth amid Global Trade Upheaval
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By Miklos Gaspar
(UN News)* — Faced with mounting debt and economic stagnation, middle-income countries have issued a call for financial reform, sustainable investment, and a roadmap to escape the so-called “middle-income trap,” at a UN-backed international conference held in Manila, Philippines, which concluded on Tuesday [].
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30/04/2025
If the US Nuclear Umbrella Collapses, Will It Trigger a Euro-Bomb?
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– The Trump administration’s hostile attitude towards Western Europe—and the threat to pullout of the 32-member military alliance, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) – signifies the danger of losing the longstanding protection of the US nuclear umbrella over Europe.
30/04/2025
NATO Was Founded to Crush Communist, Socialist, and Anti-colonial Movements Worldwide
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By Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service*
NATO was never a good idea gone wrong. It was founded to crush communist, socialist, and anti-colonial movements in Europe and around the world.
Medea Benjamin and David Swanson explain NATO’s supremely violent history in NATO: What You Need to Know.
The organization was born on April 4, 1949, when foreign ministers from 12 nations came together in Washington, D.C. to sign the 1100-page North Atlantic Treaty.
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