•	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

The gangs which now control up to 90 per cent of Haiti’s capital must be persuaded to end their campaign of violence which has left the children of the Port-au-Prince region without safety, schooling and sufficient food to eat, the UN’s top envoy for Children and Armed Conflict has told UN News.  

“One of my biggest fears is that the youngest of the young in Haiti might also become victims of trafficking, particularly girls, for sexual purposes,” Special Representative Victoria Gamba, said, telling Cristina Silveiro that she is determined to visit the crisis-wracked nation “at the first opportunity” and confront the gang leaders face to face.

Audio credit: Cristina Silveiro, UN News
Audio duration: 14'29"
Photo credit: UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

Haiti: Top UN advocate for children caught in conflict committed to challenging gang leaders

Millions of women and girls saw no progress in their reproductive rights simply because of who they are or where they were born, according to the new 2024 State of World Population report, released on Wednesday by UNFPA, the UN sexual and reproductive health agency.

Agency chief Dr. Natalia Kanem spoke in depth to UN News about her main priorities, noting that women and girls are often the most vulnerable in conflict zones such as Gaza and Ukraine.

She told Nathalie Minard that “the ability of human society to prosper really depends on looking at who's vulnerable. When you fix that, you fix the issue for so many others.”

Audio Credit: Nathalie Minard, UN News Geneva
Audio Duration: 12'43"
Photo Credit: UN Photo/ Srdjan Slavkovic

Understanding ‘who's vulnerable’, key to protect women in conflict

•	$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

The Middle East is on a knife edge said the UN chief on Thursday 18 April, telling ambassadors in the Security Council that "we have a shared moral obligation to advance a comprehensive Middle East de-escalation effort, in order to reduce risks, increase stability, and pave the way towards peace and prosperity for the countries and people of the region and beyond." Listen to his full remarks.

Gaza & the Middle East: UN chief António Guterres briefs the Security Council

•	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

Sudan’s food security crisis is a matter of deep concern with a very real risk there could be famine there, the Director of the Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) Office of Emergencies and Resilience has told UN News. 

Rein Paulsen has been in the war-ravaged country with an interagency team planning how best to scale up the aid response to the food security crisis. 

FAO is supporting vulnerable farms to boost crop production and is implementing famine prevention strategies, including vaccinating animals. 

“We have a window of opportunity and that window as right now,” he told UN News’s Ezzat El-Ferri from the coastal aid hub of Port Sudan.

Audio credit: Ezzat El-Ferri, UN News
Photo credit: © FAO

Real risk of famine in Sudan, warns senior FAO official

UNESCO spoke to Mr. Michal Rahfaldt, the Executive Director of the Children’s Radio Foundation, a non-profit organization that works to develop and support youth radio projects across Africa. Michal is an anthropologist, radio producer, journalist, trainer, and academic specializing in youth media and education. Before joining the Children's Radio Foundation in 2007, Michal taught journalism, media studies, and social anthropology at the University of Cape Town. He was involved in a wide range of youth radio projects prior to working at CRF, including collaborative productions with prisoners, asylum seekers, primary and high school students, and other children and young adults. As a journalist, he has contributed to the BBC World Service, National Public Radio, and the New York Times.

Disclaimer:
UNESCO is pleased to make the audio and text of this interview available copyright-free for the celebration of World Radio Day 2019. Radio stations are especially encouraged to broadcast the interview, either in its totality or by extracting the answers and announcing the questions themselves.

Conversation with Michal Rahfaldt from the Children's Radio Foundation

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Conversation with Michal Rahfaldt from the Children's Radio Foundation

World Radio Day

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