•	‘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

More than two years since the start of the full-scale Russian invasion in Ukraine, the harrowing human cost of the conflict couldn’t be clearer, with thousands killed and many of the injured requiring triple or quadruple amputations, mine action experts said on Wednesday.

The wider economic cost of the ongoing fighting in one of the world’s main cereal and commodity-producing regions is enormous too, currently valued at many billions of dollars, amid rising food and fuel prices.

With more, here’s Paul Heslop, Programme Manager for Mine Action at the UN Development Programme in Ukraine; he’s been speaking to UN News’s Nancy Sarkis  on the sidelines of the Meeting of Mine Action National Directors and UN Advisers in Geneva.

Audio Credit: Nancy Sarkis, UN News-Geneva
Audio: 7'50"
Photo Credit: UN News/Daniel Johnson

Ukraine war: A billions-of-dollars drain on coffers worldwide

•	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

Since the 1950s, 9.2 billion tonnes of plastic have been produced, seven billion tonnes of which have become potentially toxic waste. If no action is taken, plastic pollution could triple by 2060. 

It’s in our oceans, our rivers and overall plastic pollution represents “a huge problem” says Jyoti Mathur-Filipp, Executive Secretary of the international negotiating committee secretariat (INC) focused on curbing the scourge, which met earlier this week on the road to what it is hoped will be an historic treaty next year.

Following the latest round of talks in Ottawa, Canada, “we are exactly where we need to be,” Ms. Mathur-Filipp told UN News’ Anton Uspensky, reflecting on the latest negotiations, and important steps that lie ahead. 

Audio credit: Anton Uspensky, UN News
Audio: 3'33"
Photo credit: Pawan Prasad

Negotiators advance plastic pollution treaty amid ‘extremely ambitious timeline’

After more than a year of brutal fighting between rival militaries across Sudan, the last Government-held stronghold in Darfur of El Fasher is in danger of slipping into famine unless rebel fighters end their siege.
That’s according to the UN’s Deputy Humanitarian Coordinator Toby Harward who told UN News that if the fighting for control continues it will trigger revenge attacks across Darfur and a slide into the atrocities that unfolded there two decades ago.
Abdelmonem Makki began by asking him to describe the latest situation in El Fasher.

Audio credit: Abdelmonem Makki
Photo credit: UN News

Sudan: Parts of besieged Darfur city ‘on the brink of famine’

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

More than a year of fighting between Sudan’s rival militaries has the country’s people on the verge of famine and uprooted huge numbers caught up in the crossfire.

Now, there’s a new threat - unexploded weapons littering Sudan’s towns and cities, where people have received little training about the very real dangers of these lethal devices.

Mohammad Sediq Rashid, Chief of the UN Mine Action Service (UNMAS) in the country, tells UN News’s Nancy Sarkis this deadly kind of warfare is new to Sudanese and with access to the capital getting easier, civilians are not waiting for crucial mine clearance to happen.

Audio Credit: Nancy Sarkis, UN News-Geneva
Photo Credit: UNAMID/Albert González Farran

Unexploded weapons in cities create new danger zone in Sudan

Kenya remains on high alert as Tropical Cyclone Hidaya threatens to dump more torrential rains on East African countries, which recently emerged from historic drought. 

The heavy rains have caused deadly flooding and landslides that have killed nearly 400 people across the region since March. 

The UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Kenya, Stephen Jackson, has been calling for a “push on resilience” as extreme weather events intensify due to climate change. 

UN News’s Thelma Nadzua begam by asking him about the UN’s ongoing support to the Government as the rains continue.

Kenya: ‘Whiplash’ between drought and flooding calls for building climate resilience

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