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Close to 1 billion people in low- and lower-middle income countries - 1 in 8 of the world’s population –are served by health-care facilities that lack a reliable electricity supply, according to a new report from the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Bank, the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), and Sustainable Energy for All (SEforAll). WHO

Global growth is slowing sharply in the face of elevated inflation, higher interest rates, reduced investment, and disruptions caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to the World Bank’s latest Global Economic Prospects report. WORLD BANK GROUP

According to a new UN report, a child or youth died once every 4.4 seconds in 2021. UNICEF

Since June 2022, a combination of heavy rains and riverine, urban, and flash flooding has led to an unprecedented natural disaster in Pakistan. Floods have affected 33 million people, with more than 1,730 lives lost as well as 2 million housing units impacted, and several thousands of schools and hospitals damaged or destroyed. FILE

At the International Conference on Climate-Resilient Pakistan, co-hosted by the Government of Pakistan and the United Nations, which took place today at the UN Office in Geneva, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for support to help Pakistan with a 16 billion US dollars rebuilding effort following devastating floods. UNTV CH

With temperatures continuing to plunge in Ukraine, nearly 10 million Ukrainians who live in the most affected areas by the war will probably spend winter without water, heat and electricity, and 18 million will need humanitarian aid, according to UN estimates. UNTV CH

In Mozambique’s Nampula province, UNHCR has partnered with the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the government to provide electricity to refugees and displaced people living at the Maratane refugee settlement, under the Energy for All project. UNHCR

Leaders of the Federal Government of Somalia, its international partners and a cross-section of Somalis gathered in the capital on Monday and Tuesday for the country’s first-ever International Investment Conference–an opportunity for the world to appreciate the progress being made by Somalia on the political and economic front. UNSOM

Peru has become the most food insecure country in South America, according to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization, (FAO). Half the population of the Andean country is suffering from food insecurity, twice as many as before the pandemic. UNTV CH

Ahead of traveling to Sharm el Sheikh for the COP27 climate summit, World Bank Group President David Malpass visited the Komati coal-fired plant in South Africa, which is being decommissioned and repurposed. WORLD BANK