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SOUTH SUDAN / COUNTERING HATE SPEECH
Ahead of World Press Freedom Day, celebrated every May 3rd, UNESCO conducted a first national conference on countering hate speech for peace in South Sudan. UNMISS
2 May 2017
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SOMALIA / GERMANY HUMANITARIAN AID
Germany pledged 70 million euro to Somalia and is planning to at least double that amount to help scale up humanitarian response to the ongoing drought in the African country.UNSOM
2 May 2017
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GA / OBAMA
US President Barack Obama in his speech to the General Assembly said that small terrorist groups like ISIS can do "great harm." He said “no god condones this terror. No grievance…
24 September 2014
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SOUTH SUDAN / UK CONTINGENT ARRIVAL
Thirty-five British troops arrived the South Sudan's capital Juba today to join their country’s engineering contingent of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan. UNMISS
2 May 2017
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ETHIOPIA / HUMAN RIGHTS ZEID
On his first official visit to Ethiopia, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, lauded the economic and development strides the country has made in recent years…
2 May 2017
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EUROPE / STRANDED REFUGEES
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned that nearly 75,000 refugees and migrants, including an estimated 24,600 children, currently stranded in Greece, Bulgaria Hungary and the Western…
4 May 2017
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SOMALIA / WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY
An umbrella organization of Somali journalists urged the government to protect its members from violent crimes in order to enable them to work without fear or favour. UNSOM
3 May 2017
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CAR / HUMANITARIAN CRISIS
The World Food Programme (WFP) and other humanitarian groups warned that ignoring the humanitarian crisis in the Central African Republic (CAR) would mean risking the country spiralling back into…
3 May 2017
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SOUTH SUDAN / WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY
The UN Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (UNESCO) in collaboration with the Union of Journalists of South Sudan (UJOSS), and others commemorated World Press Freedom Day in Juba under…
3 May 2017
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WFP / HUNGER MIGRATION
At a time when a record-high number of people have been forced to flee their homes across the world, a new study by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) clearly establishes that high levels…
4 May 2017
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UN / MALI PEACEKEEPERS ATTACK
A United Nations spokesperson told reporters today in New York that one peacekeeper was killed and nine were wounded in an attack on a UN camp in Timbuktu, Mali on Wednesday. UNIFEED
4 May 2017
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ETHIOPIA / ZEID
The UN Human Rights Chief Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein concluded a three-day visit to Ethiopia where he lauded development efforts in the country but also called for equal attention to all sets of rights.…
4 May 2017