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Egypt: Fact-checking site’s entire newsroom jailed as assault on press freedom widens 
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Egypt: Fact-checking site’s entire newsroom jailed as assault on press freedom widens
Six journalists who make up the entire newsroom of the Egyptian fact-checking website Matsadash remain in detention, the UN human rights office (OHCHR) said...
Nearly 64,000 flee Nigeria for Niger where a humanitarian crisis is deepening
Violence in northern Nigeria is fueling a growing humanitarian crisis across the whole region: 64,000 have fled to neighbouring Niger and several hundred have...
Ebola: IOM urges wider surveillance beyond formal routes in DR Congo
Seventy-one confirmed Ebola cases have been detected along transit routes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) since the outbreak began almost six...
World News in Brief: Ending cholera by 2030 ‘within reach’, Haiti displacement and hunger, US human rights review rescheduled
Ending cholera as a public health threat by 2030 is within reach, as every cholera death can be prevented with tools that already exist,...
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NEW YORK, November 11 (IPS) – The United Nations knows how to announce a milestone. What interests me, after a career that has included...
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More than one in three women and girls worldwide – roughly 1.5 billion – live in so-called “climate hotspots”, where high exposure to hazards...
Sudan war: First suicide bombers, now long-range drone strikes are the norm
Drones and drought are “closing in” on Sudan, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), said on Tuesday, describing unprecedented attacks on the country’s infrastructure including...
When deaths go uncounted: WHO flags dangerous blind spots in Africa’s health data
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The global energy transition took centre stage on the second day of COP31, as countries explored how to move away from fossil fuels, accelerate...
Nearly 64,000 flee Nigeria for Niger where a humanitarian crisis is deepening 
Ebola: IOM urges wider surveillance beyond formal routes in DR Congo 
World News in Brief: Ending cholera by 2030 ‘within reach’, Haiti displacement and hunger, US human rights review rescheduled