UNICEF estimates that almost a quarter of a million children in Nigeria suffer from the deadly condition of severe acute malnutrition – not because they are hungry, but because they are eating the wrong kind of food. UNICEF
The United Nations top envoy to the Middle East said today (25 July) that while talks between the Israelis and the Palestinians remain stalled, “events on the ground continue to move in the wrong direction.” UNTV
The United Nations peacekeeping chief announced today (25 July) that half of the 300 UN observers in Syria have left the country, while adding that the crisis there remains “of utmost concern” and the world body will continue to promote a political solution. UNSMIS
China’s growth rate is set to moderate to around 8 percent this year due to measures by authorities to cool the economy, and the global slowdown, say IMF economists in their latest assessment of the world’s second-largest economy. IMF