"SIERRA LEONE"

This week, UNICEF is launching #Reimagine, a global campaign to prevent the COVID-19 pandemic from becoming a lasting crisis for children, especially the most vulnerable children – such as those affected by poverty, exclusion or family violence. UNICEF

WHO Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus said the world "had enough time to intervene" in response to the COVID-19 outbreak adding that the public health emergency declaration on 30 January was "actually declared in a timely fashion that allows enough time for the rest of the world to respond.” WHO

Actor, filmmaker and humanitarian Idris Elba and actress, model and activist Sabrina Dhowre Elba today launched a new global COVID-19 relief fund on behalf of the United Nations’ International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) in their new roles as IFAD Goodwill Ambassadors.IFAD

Food insecurity levels in the Sahel region are “spiralling out of control”, the World Food Programme (WFP) said today, as it expressed concerns about the potential impact on humanitarian supply chains because of restrictions imposed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. UNTV CH / FILE

Security Council issues presidential statement calling for greater efforts to help Africa fight terrorism, as delegates denounce ‘insufficient’ current approaches.

Security Council issues presidential statement calling for greater efforts to help Africa fight terrorism, as delegates denounce ‘insufficient’ current approaches.

After the last Ebola patient was discharged on 3 March at an Ebola treatment center in Beni, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the beginning of a 42-day observation period before it can declare the end of the Ebola outbreak - if there are no new cases diagnosed. WHO and partners have been combating the disease for the last 19 months. UNTV CH

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said lasting peace is “interlinked with justice, development and respect for human rights” adding that for societies to move forward after conflicts “suffering needs to be acknowledged; confidence in State institutions restored; and justice done.” UNIFEED

“The world needs to continue to fund the Ebola response,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in Geneva on Tuesday, adding that “taking our foot off the accelerator now, could it be a fatal mistake.” WHO

The number of pregnant women and children in sub-Saharan Africa sleeping under insecticide-treated bed nets and benefiting from preventive medicine for malaria has increased significantly in recent years, according to the World Health Organization’s World malaria report 2019. WHO