News in Brief - 2024

•	Ukraine: Ambulance teams at 3 times greater risk of death and injury
•	Human Rights Council resolution demands further Iran violations probe
•	More than 700 attacks by Israeli settlers in occupied West Bank

Audio Credit: Matt Wells, UN News
Audio: 3'4"
Photo Credit: Angels of Salvation CSO/Mariia Ostashko

News in Brief - 4 April 2024 - Ukraine, HRC and Israel

•	Israel must allow ‘quantum leap’ in aid delivery UN chief urges, calling for change in military strategy @UNHumanRights @antonioguterres
•	Sudan: UN food agency convoy reaches Darfurs for first time in months @WFP
•	Global deployment of rapid diagnostic tests to boost fight against cholera

Audio Credit: Daniel Johnson, UN News
Audio Duration: 4'34"
Photo Credit: UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

News in Brief - 5 April 2024 - Gaza, Sudan and Cholera

•	Palestine UN membership in spotlight amid Rafah invasion fears 
•	Attacks on Ukrainian nuclear facilities ‘must cease immediately’: UN atomic watchdog
•	Healthcare ‘inaccessible’ for displaced people, warns UN migration agency

Audio Credit: Daniel Johnson, UN News
Audio: 4'2"
Photo Credit: UN News/Ziad Taleb

News in Brief - 8 April 2024- Gaza, Ukraine, Migrants and Refugees

•	‘Fear and loss’ for Sudanese displaced by brutal fighting
•	Hepatitis killing thousands each day and numbers rising: WHO
•	Dozens of migrants perish in Djibouti shipwreck

Audio Credit: Shanaé Harte, UN News.
Audio: 4'
Photo Credit: © WHO South Sudan

News in Brief - 9 April 2024 - Sudan, hepatitis B and migrants

•	Gaza: No improvement in aid access to north, insists senior UN aid official 
•	Sudan facing looming famine, warn humanitarians
•	Ukraine war leaves 3.3 million in dire need on frontlines: IOM 


Audio Credit: Daniel Johnson, UN News
Audio Duration: 4'18"
Photo Credit: © UNOCHA/Themba Linden

News in Brief - 12 April 2024 - Gaza, Sudan and - Ukraine

•	Gaza: Rights experts condemn AI role in destruction by Israeli military
•	Sudan crisis in international spotlight one year since war began
•	Grower taskforce mulls action to tackle spike in plant pests


Audio Credit: Daniel Johnson, UN News
Audio Duration: 3'59"
Photo Credit: © UNOCHA/Themba Linden

News in Brief - 15 April 2024 - Gaza, Sudan and climate change

•	Gaza: No let up in deadly toll as rights chief calls for end to civilian suffering 
•	Ethiopia hunger rates focus of pledging forum: OCHA
•	UN migration agency calls for $112 million to save lives in Africa and Yemen 

Audio Credit: Daniel Johnson, UN News
Audio: 3'58"
Photo Credit: UNICEF

News in Brief - 16 April 2024 - Gaza, Ethiopia and migration

•	$2.8 billion flash appeal launched in support of three million across Gaza and West Bank
•	Violations of women’s reproductive health rights trigger rise in preventable deaths, says UNFPA
•	Lives depend on success of Cameroon emergency appeal: Humanitarians


Audio Credit: Shanaé Harte, UN News
Audio: 4'14"
Photo Credit: © UNOCHA/Themba Linden

News in Brief - 17 April 2024 - Gaza, Women's Rights and Cameroon

•	Pandemic experts express concern over avian influenza spread to humans 
•	Rights chief Türk urges peace for shattered DR Congo communities 
•	Fears of Middle East escalation undiminished amid ongoing violence


Audio Credit: Daniel Johnson, UN News
Audio: 4'24"
Photo Credit: © Unsplash/Obie Fernandez

News in Brief - 18 April 2024 - Avian influenza, DR Congo and Gaza

•	Pandemic experts express concern over avian influenza spread to humans 
•	Rights chief Türk urges peace for shattered DR Congo communities 
•	Fears of Middle East escalation undiminished amid ongoing violence


Audio Credit: Daniel Johnson, UN News
Audio: 4'6"
Photo Credit: © WFP/Ali Jadallah

News in Brief -19 April 2024- Gaza, DR Congo and influenza

- Gaza violence continues unabated, claims lives of civilians
- Climate shocks lie behind rise in workplace dangers and deaths: ILO
- Airlines, aviation authorities should not facilitate unlawful removals to Rwanda, top rights experts say

Audio credit: Daniel Johnson, UN News
Audio: 4'25"
Photo credit: © UNICEF/Naing Linn Soe

News in Brief -22 April 2024- Gaza, Rwanda, and Climate change threats to work

Gaza mass graves uncovered with victims’ hands tied: UN’s Türk
Ethiopia clashes displace 50,000, warn UN humanitarians 
Asia, the world’s most disaster-hit region from climate shocks: WMO
Audio credit: Daniel Johnson, UN News
Audio: 3'48"
Photo credit: © WFP/Michael Tewelde

News in Brief -23 April 2024- Gaza, Ethiopia and Climate in Asia

•	Gaza: People ‘are clearly dying’ from hunger, warns UN food agency 
•	Global hunger set to rise amid record displacement, warn FAO, UNHCR
•	Tanzania in rights spotlight over ritual attacks on people with albinism

Audio credit: Daniel Johnson, UN News
Audio: 4'34"
Photo credit: Corbis Images/Patricia Willocq

News in Brief - 24 April 2024 - Gaza, Hunger and People with Albinism

- Teen alcohol and nicotine use in Europe is up, WHO urges preventive measure
- UK gender change therapy review reveals devastating impacts on kids, says top rights expert
- Independent rights body to investigate fate of missing persons in Syria
 
Audio credit: Daniel Johnson, UN News
Audio duration: 3'25"
Photo credit: © UNOCHA/Bilal Alhammoud

News in Brief - 25 April 2024 - Teen alcohol use, UK gender change therapy, Syria's missing persons

- Gaza humanitarian update, rights experts’ appeal over aid access
- Sudan: Civilians ‘are trapped’ in El-Fasher, warns UN’s Türk 
- ‘Just in case’ antibiotics widely overused during COVID-19, says UN health agency

Audio credit: Daniel Johnson, UN News
Audio: 4'20"
Photo credit: © WFP/World Relief

News in Brief - 26 April 2024 - Gaza, Sudan, COVID-19 antibiotics overuse

- Gaza at ‘most dangerous’ stage amid huge unexploded weapons risk, warns demining expert
- Lift tax on aid relief, top UN emergency relief chief urges South Sudan  
- UN expresses solidarity with Kenya following deadly floods
 
Audio Credit Shanae Harte, UN News
Audio 3'40"
Photo Credit © UNICEF/Tess Ingram

News in Brief - 29 April 2024 - Gaza unexploded mines, Kenya floods, South Sudan

•	‘Extraordinary, deep anxiety’ in Rafah from feared Israeli attack: UNRWA 
•	Gaza war spillover compounds misery for most vulnerable in Lebanon
•	UN rights chief Türk ‘troubled’ by law enforcement crackdown on Gaza protests in US


Audio Credit: Daniel Johnson, UN News
Audio Duration: 3'49"
Photo Credit: © OHCHR/Irina Popa

News in Brief - 30 April 2024 - Gaza and Lebanon

•	Gazans on tenterhooks awaiting news of ceasefire call 
•	Ukraine landmine contamination still having global economic impact
•	DR Congo conflict driving record levels of displacement, hunger


Audio Credit: Shanaé Harte, UN News
Audio Duration: 4'5"
Photo Credit: © Unsplash/Brett Wharton

News in Brief - 1 May 2024 - Gaza, Ukraine and DR Congo

Our top audio stories this 2 May 2024 from the UN News team:
- Development in Palestine set back more than 20 years due to Gaza war
- Niger responds to 50 per cent spike in meningitis since last year
- Detention of child migrants in EU must end, say top rights experts

Audio credit: Matt Wells, UN News
Photo credit: UNOCHA/Themba Linden

News in Brief - 02 May 2024 - 10,000 buried in Gaza rubble, Niger meningitis, migrant children

•	Targeting Rafah could lead to slaughter, warns UN aid agency 
•	Sudan violence leaves many areas beyond reach of aid teams; UNHCR  
•	Tropical cyclone Hidaya threatens further flooding in east Africa: WMO

Audio Credit: Shanaé Harte, UN News
Audio Duration: 4'6"
Photo Credit: UN News/Ziad Taleb

News in Brief - 3 May 2024 - Gaza, Sudan and climate change in Africa

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