United Nations warily awaits Donald Trump’s return to power
United Nations Reuters The United Nations has been planning for the possible return of Donald Trump and the cuts to US funding and engagement with world body that are likely to come with his second term as president. There was a sense of “déjà vu and some trepidation” at the 193-member world body, said one […]
Ukraine’s population has fallen by 10 million since Russia’s invasion, UN says
Berlin, Germany Reuters Ukraine’s population has declined by 10 million, or around a quarter, since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion as a result of refugees leaving, collapsing fertility and war deaths, the United Nations said on Tuesday. Speaking at a Geneva news conference, Florence Bauer, Eastern Europe head at the UN Population Fund, said […]
Sudan “spiralling out of control” as one million flee country – UN
Reuters More than a million people have fled Sudan to neighbouring states and people inside the country are running out of food and dying due to lack of healthcare after four months of war, the United Nations warned on Tuesday. Fighting between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has devastated the capital […]
UN says women and babies at risk in Yemen as funds crunch forces clinics to shut
London Thomson Reuters Foundation The United Nations warned on Thursday that more than half its reproductive health facilities in war-hit Yemen would close by the end of this month, putting the lives of women and babies at risk, unless it got more funding. The UN Population Fund said it had closed 100 facilities at the […]
Hundreds of pregnant women risk death in Yemen, says UN
Thomson Reuters Foundation Hundreds of pregnant women in the Yemeni city of Hodeidah risk dying as the escalating conflict puts medical care out of reach in a country with one of the world’s highest maternal mortality rates, the United Nations said. The UN Population Fund said pregnant women were at “extreme risk” as it became […]