“War is pushing millions of people to the brink of starvation. Only technicalities prevent famines from being declared, as people are already dying of hunger,” said Mr. Griffiths. “Waiting for an official declaration of famine before acting would be a death sentence for hundreds of thousands of people and a moral outrage,” he added. As…
Singapore: A new study has found that between 1980 and 2020, 135 million deaths have occurred globally due to air pollution caused by human activities. According to researchers at the Singapore-based Ninyang Technological University (NTU), weather patterns such as El Nino and the Indian Ocean Dipole have increased the amount of these pollutants in the…
“The Secretary-General strongly condemns the attack reportedly carried out on 5 June by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the Wad Al-Noura village, Jazira state, which is said to have killed over 100 people,” his Spokesperson said in a statement overnight, which also underscored “the immense suffering of the Sudanese population as a result of…
“We now have five million people in Haiti that are acutely food insecure, of which 1.6 million are classified as facing emergency food insecurity conditions,” said WFP Country Director Jean-Martin Bauer, speaking via videolink to journalists at UN Headquarters in New York. “These are the highest numbers on record. These are the highest numbers we’ve…
In a bleak assessment of the dire situation in Sudan where conflict is in its second year, the heads of 19 global humanitarian organizations issued an alert that further obstacles to providing aid “rapidly and at scale” will mean that “more people will die”. UN aid coordination office OCHA spokesperson Jens Laerke told reporters in…
Filippo Grandi said the number currently stands at 114 million. “Next month we will update this figure. It will be higher,” he added. Mr. Grandi recalled his last briefing to ambassadors seven months ago, when he shared his views on several crises around the globe. Non-compliance with international law He said the situation has not…
File photo Experts say that millions of cases of stomach and liver diseases are coming to light in Pakistan every month. Addressing the 6th Annual Pak GI and Liver Disease Conference, experts said that half of the patients who come to emergency departments come with complaints of stomach diseases. Dr. Lubna Kamani says that Pakistan…
Charles Birch, known as Mungo, was working with his team in Gaza long before the 7 October conflict, clearing unexploded munitions from the occupied territory. He told Conor Lennon from UN News that all of their earlier work has been undone by the bombardments that have rained down on Gaza over the last six months….
Cyber security experts have revealed that the number of attacks on millions of mobile devices this year is much higher than last year. A foreign news agency According to the report In 2023, 3.38 million malware, adware and riskware attacks on mobile devices were blocked globally, which is 50% more than in 2022. This was…
Chicago: A new report It has been reported that the transition to electric vehicles by 2050 could help save hundreds of children’s lives as well as save millions of children from asthma attacks. A study conducted by the American Lung Association found that the transition to zero-emission vehicles and the electric power grid would reduce…
