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An order by South Sudan’s Army to evacuate the Opposition-held town of Akobo earlier this month pushed an estimated 100,000 people to flee across the border into Ethiopia. File | Photo Credit: Reuters An order by South Sudan’s army to evacuate the opposition-held town of Akobo earlier this month pushed an estimated 1,00,000 people to…
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Vaccines by Denmark’s Bavarian Nordic and Japan’s KM Biologics, are already approved. (Representational) London: The World Health Organization said on Friday its partners like Gavi and Unicef can start buying mpox vaccines before they are approved in a bid to get inoculations to Africa faster as the continent battles an escalating outbreak of the virus….
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7-month-old Majd Salem is among the million of Gaza’s inhabitants who face the most extreme malnutrition. Nearly 166 million people worldwide are estimated to need urgent action against hunger, according to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), a global partnership which measures food insecurity. That includes nearly everyone in the Gaza Strip, where the…
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A house lies in ruins in the border area of Shebaa in southern Lebanon, following an Israeli strike on April 27, 2024 , amid ongoing cross-border tensions as fighting continues between Israel and Palestinian Hamas militants in Gaza. | Photo Credit: AFP UNICEF, the children’s agency of the UN, said on April 30 that conflict…
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Mounting misery: Children line up to receive a plate of food at a shelter for families displaced by gang violence in Port-au-Prince. | Photo Credit: AP The UN children’s agency chief offered a dire assessment on Marcg 17 of the chaotic situation in Haiti, saying it was “almost like a scene out of Mad Max,” which…
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The High Court of Bombay has recently taken suo motu cognisance of the exploitation of the intra-State workforce that migrates seasonally from the drought-affected and water-scarce regions of Marathwada to the sugar-belt region of western Maharashtra. Maharashtra is one of the top sugar producers in India. According to the Maharashtra Sugar Commissioner, in 2022-23, the…