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- SundayNews
- August 2, 2024
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IHG Hotels & Resorts and Action Against Hunger launch new partnership to tackle food insecurity
IHG Hotels&Resorts (www.IHG.com), one of the world’s leading hotel companies, is proud to announce a new multi-year partnership withâ¯global NGO Action Against Hunger (http://apo-opa.co/4dmuW7j) in support of its invaluable work to combat…
- SundayNews
- August 1, 2024
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Famine now prevalent in parts of war-torn Sudan
The 15-month-long escalating conflict between warring militias “has severely impeded humanitarian access and pushed parts of North Darfur into famine, notably in the Zamzam camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs)”,…
- SundayNews
- August 1, 2024
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Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) outraged and alarmed over repeated attacks on hospitals in El Fasher and blockade on urgently needed medicines and food
Repeated attacks on healthcare facilities in El Fasher, in Sudan’s North Darfur, are causing the already heavy death toll in the city to rise even further; The ongoing blockage on urgently…
- SundayNews
- August 1, 2024
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Healthy diets remain unaffordable for a third of the worldâs population
More than a third of the world’s population could not afford a healthy diet in 2022, and some regions have yet fully to recover from the harms wrought by the…
- SundayNews
- August 1, 2024
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On World Breastfeeding Week, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and World Health Organization (WHO) call for equal access to breastfeeding support
In the last 12 years, the number of infants under six months of age who are exclusively breastfed in Nigeria has increased by more than 10 per cent. Today, 34…
- SundayNews
- August 1, 2024
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Sudan crisis: Severe acute malnutrition skyrocketing in Save the Children clinics as country now in worst phase of food insecurity
The number of children in Sudan seeking treatment for severe acute malnutrition (SAM) has surged to unprecedented levels with clinics overwhelmed and global experts on food security warning that parts…
- SundayNews
- August 1, 2024
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Outgoing World Health Organisation (WHO) representative lauded for fight against pandemics
Legislators have commended the outgoing World Health Organisation (WHO) Country Director, Dr. Yonas Tegegn Woldemariam for his role in the fight against the Covid-19 and Ebola epidemics. In his communication…
- SundayNews
- August 1, 2024
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Nigeria: Authorities must uphold human rights ahead of planned nationwide protests
Ahead of planned nationwide protests in response to food shortages and cost of living crisis, Amnesty International’s Nigeria Director, Isa Sanusi, said: “The Nigerian authorities must ensure that security agencies…
- SundayNews
- August 1, 2024
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Merck Foundation Chairperson & Chief Executive Officer (CEO) meet Botswana President and First Lady to acknowledge their Alumni and Award winners
Merck Foundation (www.Merck-Foundation.com) declared Botswana First Lady as Ambassador of “More than a Mother” to build healthcare capacity, break infertility stigma, stop GBV and support girl education; Merck Foundation Chairperson&CEO…
- SundayNews
- July 30, 2024
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Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TÄ°KA) Renovated the Patient Care Ward of the Gynecology and Obstetrics Hospital in Tunisia
Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TÄ°KA) has renovated and reopened the patient care ward at the Wassila Bourguiba Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital in Tunisia Turkish Ambassador to Tunisia, Ahmet Misbah…