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Hawaye Ibrahim, escaped to Chad to find safety for her children, after her husband was shot and killed in Sudan’s Darfur region. Fighting in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, has quickly spread to Darfur in recent weeks displacing tens of thousands of people. UNHCR

While improved rains are starting to ease the impacts of the drought in the Horn of Africa region, they also bring new risks and challenges. Heavy rains drove flooding across parts of the region, causing widespread damage and affecting at least 900,000 people. OCHA

In the first-ever report of its kind, the WHO Council on the Economics of Health for All has outlined a bold new path to reorient economies to deliver what matters - health for all. WHO

According to the World Food Programme, cyclone Mocha, the strongest storm to strike the Bay of Bengal in over a decade, has wreaked havoc on millions of vulnerable people, particularly in Myanmar. WFP

South Sudan has seen an influx in people arriving in the country to escape conflict in Sudan. At least 46,000 South Sudanese have gone back home to the country they once fled. UNHCR and partners are providing new arrivals with food, water, blankets, mats and buckets, as well as emergency medical treatment. UNHCR

Noon briefing by Stephanie Tremblay, Associate Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is rapidly scaling up its emergency operations in Sudan, every day reaching thousands more people whose lives have been upended by the ongoing fighting. WFP

Sudan’s Ambassador Al-Harith Idriss Al-Harith Mohamed said the humanitarian situation in the country “has deteriorated and is getting worse,” and denied the Sudanese Armed forces are breaching ceasefire agreements. UNIFEED

In northern Tanzania, recurring drought in recent years has put pressure on communities who make their livelihoods by keeping cattle. A group of Maasai women have turned to producing honey from beehives in the forest to generate additional income. FAO

Un rapport d’une mission d’établissement des faits du Bureau des droits de l'homme des Nations Unies a conclu qu'il y a de fortes indications que plus de 500 personnes auraient été tuées - la grande majorité sommairement exécutées - par les troupes maliennes et du personnel militaire étranger au cours d'une opération militaire de cinq jours dans le village de Moura, au centre du Mali, en mars 2022. HCDH