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Somalia President Mohamud to arrive for the UN environment summit in Nairobi

28Feb

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Somalia President Mohamud to arrive for the UN environment summit in Nairobi

Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud is set to arrive in Nairobi for the sixth United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA6). In a statement on Wednesday, the Head of State at the summit will highlight Somalia's unique environmental challenges. "The challenges particularly will include the climate-induced humanitarian situation in the country by exploring ways to work collaboratively with global partners to build a sustainable future for Somalia," the statement reads. Additionally, President Sheikh will touch on the challenges hampering peace, stability, and sustainable development in the region. He will also discuss how certain destabilising unilateral actions threaten to exacerbate the worsening situation. Apart from the summit, President Sheikh will engage in bila...

WHO Renames Monkeypox As ‘Mpox’

The World Health Organization announced Monday that “mpox” is now the preferred name for monkeypox. “Both names will be used simultaneously for one year while ‘monkeypox’ is phased out,” the organization said. The Biden administration said they “welcome the change” and the US will use the mpox name “from this point forward.” Monkeypox was named in 1970, more than a decade after the virus that causes the disease was discovered in captive monkeys, the organization said. But monkeypox probably didn’t start in monkeys – its origin is still unknown – and the virus can be found in several other kinds of animals. The name was created before WHO published best practices for naming diseases in 2015. Scientists and experts have pushed since the start of ...

Thousands in Ukraine cut off from aid, UN says

Hundreds of thousands of people inside Ukraine have been cut off from life-saving aid due to the military encirclement of cities, a U.N. report said on Monday, calling urgently for safe passage. Attempts are under way to create humanitarian corridors after two days of failed ceasefires intended to let civilians flee. Such routes are also critical for bringing aid such as water, food and medicine. "Reliable and predictable 'windows of silence' and 'safe passage' are urgently needed to relocate people whose lives are at risk and provide life-saving humanitarian relief supplies," said a bulletin from the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on Monday, based on information received through to Sunday.