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As it braces for a famine during a long, dry spell, Africa’s youngest nation battles hunger.
The number of severely malnourished kids at a health clinic in a camp in Baidoa, Somalia has jumped five-fold over the last six months, a doctor said. “The number of severely malnourished kids…has jumped,” he added. The United Nations says 700 children died in nutrition centres in Somalia in the first eight months of this…
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A couple is trying to fix the problem of Ukrainian women wearing uniforms that don’t fit.
Russia’s military has used sexual violence as a “weapon of war” in its invasion of Ukraine, United Nations (UN) investigators have said. They added that Russia used sexual violence as a “deliberate military strategy” to win the war in Ukraine. Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24 and has since occupied parts of the country.
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The climate talk was already nailed by tiny Vanuatu in 1991.
The United Nations said that it doesn’t amount to enough money to meet the needs of developing nations to prepare for climate risk. At the UN climate conference, developed countries were urged to double their funding for adaptation from 2019 levels by 2025. “There have been many promises,” Mahmoud Mohieldin, the UN’s climate change high-level…
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Developing nations will be in need of financial aid to cope with climate change.
As the United Nations climate conference opened in Egypt on Tuesday, the most critical discussions will likely focus on the soaring costs of limiting and adapting to global warming, especially in the world’s most vulnerable countries. The bloc will push for funds to help developing countries adapt to droughts, floods and other climate-related events as…