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Addressing an ECOSOC Special Ministerial Meeting on a Vaccine for All, World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus said, “vaccine equity is the challenge of our time. And we are failing.” UNIFEED

The United Nations mission in Mali (MINUSMA) bid farewell on Friday to four Chadian peacekeepers who perished in a complex attack against the mission’s Aguelhock camp in the Kidal region on 2nd April. MINUSMA

Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean recovered briskly in the second half of 2020, yet still more slowly than the global economy and other emerging markets, the IMF announced on Thursday in a press briefing in Washington, DC.

WHO’s chief Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said that in Papua New Guinea, there is large-scale community transmission in the capital Port Moresby and the Western Province, and all 22 provinces have now reported COVID-19 cases. WHO

WHO’s chief Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, "around the world, cases and deaths are continuing to increase at worrying rates," adding that “this is approaching the highest rate of infection that we have seen so far during the pandemic. Some countries that had previously avoided widespread transmission are now seeing steep increases in infections." WHO

A spate of clashes involving Government security forces and insurgent groups in northeast Nigeria has caused mass displacement and threatened humanitarian assistance, as armed groups go “house-to-house” in the search for aid workers, the UN said today. UNTV CH

Pakistan launched a drive on Thursday to issue smart identity cards to some 1.4 million registered Afghan refugees, in what will be a vast national campaign to verify data and improve access to critical services. UNHCR

UN Deputy-Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed said the “diverging world we are hurtling towards is a catastrophe for all” and stressed that it is “both morally right and economically rational to help developing countries overcome” the COVID-19 crisis. UNIFEED

“It's been a very gratifying thing to be able to be part of helping to support, prod and encourage peace in South Sudan,” said the outgoing top UN official in the country David Shearer calling on its leadership to show “responsibility towards its citizens.” UNIFEED

The UN Special Envoy for Yemen Martin Griffiths told the Security Council, “the urgency of progress towards a peaceful settlement makes the continued violence on the ground all the more concerning,”adding that Marib remains “the major centre of gravity in this conflict.” UNIFEED