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WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced the Organization’s recommendation for the “broad use of the world’s first malaria vaccine,” adding that the long-awaited vaccine “is a breakthrough for science, child health and malaria control.” WHO

Verónica Nataniel Macamo Dlhovo, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Mozambique, addresses the general debate of the 76th Session of the General Assembly of the UN (New York, 21-27 September 2021).

Young people living in the Central African Republic, Chad, Nigeria, Guinea, and Guinea-Bissau are the most at risk of the impacts of climate change, threatening their health, education, and protection, and exposing them to deadly diseases, according to a UNICEF report launched today. UNICEF

India calls for adoption of convention on terrorism, as Security Council considers fears that fighters will return to Afghanistan, surge in Africa.

Noon briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

More than 700 health care workers and patients have died since December 2017 and more than 2,000 have been injured in attacks on health facilities, according to a three- year analysis by the UN World Health Organization (WHO), released today. UNTV CH

Noon briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

Complete eradication of Da’esh can only strengthen international peace, security, says delegate, as General Assembly wraps up debate on counter-terrorism strategy.

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) warns that without urgent funding, one of the world’s fastest-growing displacement crises in northern Mozambique risks becoming a hunger emergency as families continue to flee insurgent violence. WFP

Noon briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General