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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) praised the move by the Japan’s central bank to raise interest rates for the first time in 17 years, spokesperson Julie Kozack told reporters in Washington DC. IMF

The number of children who died before their fifth birthday has reached a historic low, dropping to 4.9 million in 2022, according to the latest estimates released today by the United Nations Inter-Agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME). UNICEF

Secretary-General António Guterres said, “The Commission on the Status of Women is a catalyst for the transformation we need,” adding that at this difficult and divided moment, let’s end poverty in all dimensions by “investing in women and girls, betting on women and girls, and pushing for peace and dignity for women and girls everywhere.” UNIFEED

In Malawi the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has been investing in rural women to help them address gender inequality. IFAD

Three-time cancer survivor and singer / songwriter Bianca Muñiz delivered a keynote address at an event to mark World Cancer Day 2024, at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) headquarters in Vienna, Austria. IAEA

British celebrity chef Sophie Grigson visited Malawi to find out how small-scale farmers are coping with the worst farming season in a decade. IFAD

Children in Kenya get vaccinated with the world’s first WHO-recommended malaria vaccine, RTS,S vaccine, one of the three pilot countries that participated in the Malaria vaccine implementation programme. UNICEF

Shipments of the world’s first WHO-recommended malaria vaccine, RTS,S, have begun with 331,200 doses landing in Yaoundé, Cameroon. The delivery is the first to a country not previously involved in the malaria vaccine pilot programme and signals that scale-up of vaccination against malaria across the highest-risk areas on the African continent will begin shortly. UNICEF

The UN General Assembly elected 15 new countries to serve on the Human Rights Council. UNIFEED

WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, “As the northern hemisphere winter approaches, we continue to see concerning trends for COVID-19. Among the relatively few countries that report them, both hospitalizations and ICU admissions have increased in the past 28 days, particularly in the Americas and Europe.” WHO