UNITED NATIONS (AA) – The UN has warned that 17 million people are facing acute food insecurity during the last three months of 2022. “Some gains have been made in preventing famine … but this is still an alarmingly high number,” Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Joyce Msuya told the UN Security Council. Civilian...
Banjul, Gambia (AFP): When Wuri Bailo Keita’s two-year-old daughter Fatoumatta developed a fever, he took her to hospital where she was diagnosed with malaria and sent home with a prescription for a paracetamol syrup. Less than a week later she was dead. The infant is just one of 69 Gambian children who have died of […]
Johi, Pakistan (AFP): His head haloed by a whirlwind of mosquitoes, Aamir Hussain stands on the roof of his home in southern Pakistan surveying the fetid floodwaters all around. Four months after the start of record monsoon rains linked to climate change, the standing water has curdled into a pestilent soup breeding malaria, cholera and [&hell...
ANKARA (AA) – The World Health Organization has issued a medical product alert for four contaminated medicines detected in Gambia which have been potentially linked with acute kidney injuries and 66 child deaths. “The four medicines are cough and cold syrups produced by Maiden Pharmaceuticals Limited in India. WHO is conducting further i...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Nine-month-old Nayma is being given a high dose of drugs under the careful watch of physicians at a health center in Bangladesh capital Dhaka. She has been diagnosed with a deadly drug-resistant form of tuberculosis. Nayma has been provided treatment for the last three months for MultiDrug Resistant Tuberculosis,...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Palestinian schools in occupied East Jerusalem went on strike on Monday to protest Israeli attempts to impose textbooks that attempt to wipe out Palestinian national identity. The one-day strike was staged in response to a call by a coalition of national and Islamic factions in the city. “We reject Israel’s attempt...
JOHANNESBURG (AA) – At least 730 children have died in nutrition centers across Somalia this year, the UN Children’s Fund said on Tuesday, warning of a famine in the coming months. “Malnutrition has reached crisis levels – 1.5 million children, nearly half of the under-five population, are likely to have acute malnutrition,’’...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AA) – Some 22,500 children died from air pollution in Nigeria’s most populous southwestern state of Lagos in 2021, according to environmental authorities. The figures were revealed by Dolapo Fasawe, head of the Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency (LASEPA), on the sidelines of the opening ceremony for the ...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – An 11-year-old Palestinian girl and her brother, who have been injured in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, left the territory on Wednesday for treatment in Türkiye. The trip of the Palestinian children accompanied by their parents, has been organized upon instructions from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdog...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Depriving girls of secondary education caused a loss of at least $500 million to the Afghan economy in the last 12 months, according to an analysis by the UN’s children fund. UNICEF said keeping girls out of secondary school costs Afghanistan 2.5% of its annual GDP. “If the current cohort of three […]
