Gaza: Rafah invasion would be a disaster ‘beyond imagination’, warn UN medics

Gaza: Rafah invasion would be a disaster ‘beyond imagination’, warn UN medics

Echoing renewed deep concerns by the UN’s top humanitarian official Martin Griffiths that an assault on Rafah “could lead to a slaughter”, the World Health Organization (WHO) also firmly rejected allegations of years-long collusion with non-health partners either in or underneath Gaza’s hospitals. ‘There is no collusion’ “We definitely cannot be louder in saying that no, there…

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Libya: Mission chief updates Security Council on flood disaster ‘beyond imagination’

Libya: Mission chief updates Security Council on flood disaster ‘beyond imagination’

Briefing the Security Council, Abdoulaye Bathily noted the thousands of lives lost by the dam bursts which destroyed whole neighbourhoods after Storm Daniel slammed the region on 10 September.  The Special Representative told ambassadors that despite the sense of national unity and compassion shown by ordinary Libyans, the disaster had revealed “severe governance deficits” across…

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