Dismay as key oral cholera vaccine is discontinued
Exclusive: halt to production of Shanchol vaccine alarms WHO amid ‘unprecedented’ global outbreaks The manufacturer of one of only two cholera vaccines for use in...
Category : Middle East and North Africa
‘Overlapping shocks’ are undoing efforts to end hunger in Africa, UN warns
Urgent aid response needed as climate crisis, Covid, local conflicts and soaring fuel prices push millions more into hunger • ‘We need urgent help’: Somalis...
UK’s lost leadership role hurts Somalia’s fight against famine, says drought envoy
Britain is no longer the key humanitarian player and ‘great ally’ it once was, says envoy trying to get support for Somalia’s drought The UK...
Sudan faces ‘generational catastrophe’ as millions of children miss school
Floods, militia raids and hunger mean a third of children are not in school at all, while the rest have too few teachers, aid groups...
Sudan campaigners demand action after alarming rise in ‘honour killings’
Reported deaths more than double in a year, with women attacked by male relatives for appearing to talk to men on smartphones Campaigners are calling...
Cop27 host Egypt warns UK not to backtrack from climate agenda
Unusual diplomatic intervention prompted by fears over Liz Truss’s commitment to net zero The Egyptian government, host of the next UN climate summit, has warned...
Young people demand climate justice in run-up to Cop27 UN talks
Activists from global south demand recompense for damage from countries most responsible for crisis Young people from some of the countries most affected by climate...
Cop27: Egyptian hosts urge leaders to set aside tensions over Ukraine
Organisers call on nations to carry on crucial climate negotiations despite differences on geopolitical issues The Egyptian hosts of the next UN climate summit have...
Saudi foreign minister defends role in securing Ukraine prisoner swaps
Adel al-Jubeir decries as ‘cynical’ accusations his country was trying to improve its image after Khashoggi killing It would be cynical to see Saudi Arabia’s...
Libyan militia detains hundreds of Chadians after poachers arrested
At least 400 Chadian workers rounded up in east Libyan town of Ajdabiya after security forces in Chad arrest four Libyan poachers Hundreds of Chadians...
