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S.Sudan citizens 'deliberately starved' by warring parties: UN
The three-member commission looked into abuses between the signing of a peace deal in September 2018 and December 2019.
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Libya govt dims hopes of salvaging UN ceasefire talks
A near year-long battle for control of Tripoli worsened on Tuesday when the eastern-based Libya National Army (LNA) of Khalifa Haftar shelled the city’s seaport for the first time.
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14 children among up to 22 dead in Cameroon massacre: UN
The three-year conflict between anglophone forces seeking to break away from French-speaking Cameroon has claimed more than 3,000 lives and forced more than 700,000 people to flee their homes.
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'Heartbroken' Zindzi Mandela hits out at De Klerk 'justification' for apartheid
FW de Klerk was labelled an apartheid apologist by the EFF following a recent interview he did with the SABC.
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Lacking support, Palestinians pull request for UN vote against Trump plan
A diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that the United States has placed "very strong pressure" on other countries on the Security Council, including threats of economic retribution.
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'Think about your people' : UN chief tells South Sudan rivals
President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar have failed to break a deadlock over key terms of a power-sharing agreement with just two weeks until they are to form a unity government.
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ANALYSIS: Pushing the final frontier for ending female genital mutilation
After more than three decades of campaigning against FGM, this year is a watershed moment for women and girls at risk, write Mohamed M Fall and Dr Julitta Onabanjo.
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WHO forecasts 81% cancer jump in poorer countries
The Geneva-based World Health Organisation (WHO) said in a report that these countries had focused their limited resources on combating infectious diseases and improving maternal and child health instead of fighting cancer.
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China ambassador says no need for 'unnecessary panic' over virus
But with the disease -- which has killed 213 people and infected nearly 10,000 in China -- spreading to some 20 nations, governments, businesses and worried people around the world were taking matters into their own hands.
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Bring drunk driving limit to 0, says Mbalula as accidents cost SA R168bn
During his festive season safety announcement, Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula said government had met its target to decrease road deaths by 10% compared to the same period the previous year.
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Top UN court orders Myanmar to prevent Rohingya genocide
The International Court of Justice rejected arguments made by Myanmar's civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi in The Hague in December and set out urgent steps for the majority Buddhist nation to end the violence.
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Record 45m people need urgent food aid in southern Africa : UN
'This hunger crisis is on a scale we’ve not seen before and the evidence shows it’s going to get worse,' World Food Programme (WFP) regional director Lola Castro said in a statement.
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'Moment of crisis' has come on climate change: Attenborough
"We have been putting things off year after year, we have been raising targets and saying 'Oh well, if we do it within the next 20 years," he told the BBC.
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Twenty wounded in northern Mali rocket attack on UN base
Six peacekeepers were seriously wounded in the attack on the base in the town of Tessalit in the Kidal region, spokesperson Olivier Salgado told Reuters.
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UN resumes grain milling in starvation-threatened Yemen
Artillery fire on 26 December damaged WFP grain stores at the Red Sea Mills located on the front line in the Yemeni port city of Hodeidah.
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UN warns of another poor harvest in Zimbabwe next year
Soaring inflation, shortages of foreign exchange, fuel and electricity have brought back memories of the hyperinflation of a decade ago, amid criticism that President Emmerson Mnangagwa has failed to turn around the economy.
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UN ups 2020 budget, includes funds for war crimes probes
The increase is due to additional missions assigned to the UN Secretariat, inflation and exchange rate adjustments, according to diplomats.
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Sudan opens Darfur crimes probe against Bashir regime figures
The conflict between pro-government forces and ethnic minority rebels left around 300,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced, according to the United Nations.
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Erdogan says Turkey will increase military support to Libya if necessary
Turkey backs Fayez al-Serraj’s Government of National Accord (GNA) in Libya, which has been torn by factional conflict since 2011, and has already sent military supplies to the GNA despite a United Nations arms embargo, according to a report by UN experts seen by Reuters last month.
