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The Government of Malawi in coordination with the World Health Organization (WHO) launched the world’s first malaria vaccine in a landmark pilot programme. The country is the first of three in Africa in which the vaccine will be made available to children up to 2 years of age; Ghana and Kenya will introduce the vaccine in the coming weeks. WHO

Briefing by Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

The UN refugee agency said “students, former public officials, opposition figures, journalists, doctors, human rights defenders and farmers” are among some 62,000 Nicaraguans who have fled their country in fear for their lives since anti-Government demonstrators began last April. UNTV CH

Speaking at a meeting on financing for development, UN chief António Guterres said, “we need more money to implement the Sustainable Development Goals,” adding that “everyone, and particularly developed countries, must meet their commitments in full” for the Addis Ababa Action Agenda. UNIFEED

The UN mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) brought together Upper Nile region’s governors and senior military commanders from across the region to breakdown the recently signed revitalized peace agreement and make it tangible for the region’s operations. UNMISS

Russian Ambassador Dmitry Polyanskiy said that efforts to revoke the credentials of Venezuela’s representative to the United Nations, and to recognize interim president Juan Guaidó are “an outrageous attempt to impose on an independent country a will of another country” and a “blunt attempt of coup d’état.” UNIFEED

106,000 people have fled their homes in Idlib province of Syria and at least 190 people have been killed as a direct result of increased military clashes and attacks since February this year, said Thursday Najat Rochdi, Senior Humanitarian Advisor to the UN Special Envoy for Syria. UNTV CH

Amidst fighting in Libya’s capital, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) relocated more than 150 refugees from the Ain Zara detention centre in south Tripoli to its Gathering and Departure Facility in a nearby safe zone. UNHCR

The World Food Programme (WFP) said that, as of 8 April, it has reached 717,000 people in Mozambique who were affected by cyclone Idai, while the total number of people impacted by the flood and in need of assistance (HRP) in the country is about 1.8 million. WFP

Thousands of Venezuelans forced their way across the Simon Bolivar bridge into Colombia on Tuesday (3 Apr), after rising waters in the Tachira river below made wading across the border especially dangerous. The bridge, which connects San Antonio de Tachira in Venezuela and Cúcuta in Colombia, had been closed since February. UNHCR