World News in Brief: Burkina Faso, refugees and climate change, Afghan women deserve seat in Doha: CEDAW

Resources are desperately needed to ramp up aid supplies for Burkina Faso, a landlocked country in West Africa, which is staring at an “unprecedented humanitarian crisis”, according to the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

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World News in Brief: Burkina Faso, refugees and climate change, Afghan women deserve seat in Doha: CEDAW

FROM THE FIELD: Crisis in Kassala

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Almost two months after deadly earthquakes struck Türkiye and northern Syria, a large-scale humanitarian operation is underway for which funding is still desperately needed, the UN Humanitarian Affairs coordination office (OCHA) said on Friday.

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