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The 2009–2010 West African meningitis outbreak was an epidemic of bacterial meningitis which occurred in Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, and Nigeria since January 2009, [1] [2] an annual risk in the African meningitis belt. A total of 13,516 people have been infected with meningitis, and 931 have died. [1]
The United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (French: Mission multidimensionnelle intégrée des Nations Unies pour la stabilisation au Mali, MINUSMA) [1] was a United Nations peacekeeping mission in Mali. MINUSMA was established on 25 April 2013 by United Nations Security Council Resolution 2100 to stabilise the ...
Website. www.unocha.org. Politics portal. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is a United Nations (UN) body established in December 1991 by the General Assembly to strengthen the international response to complex emergencies and natural disasters. [1] It is the successor to the Office of the United ...
(Reuters) - UNICEF, the U.N. children's agency, appealed on Friday for international aid to help prepare violence-plagued Haiti for a dangerous Atlantic hurricane season that could be deadly for ...
Assimi Goïta. The 2021 Malian coup d'état began on the night of 24 May 2021 when the Malian Army led by Vice President Assimi Goïta [4] captured President Bah N'daw, [5][6] Prime Minister Moctar Ouane and Minister of Defence Souleymane Doucouré. [7] Assimi Goïta, the head of the junta that led the 2020 Malian coup d'état, announced that N ...
In the 1980s, early United Nations reports on the HIV/AIDS pandemic made some reference to homosexuality.. In its 1994 decision in Toonen v.Australia, the UN Human Rights Committee—which is responsible for the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)—declared that laws criminalizing consensual same-sex relations between adults are in violation of international human ...
The United Nations Appeals Tribunal (UNAT), which replaces the former United Nations Administrative Tribunal, is an appellate court, of the two-tier formal system of administration of justice in the UN. [1] It was established by the UN General Assembly in December 2008 to review appeals against judgments rendered by the United Nations Dispute ...
UNICEF estimates that 8.5 million children and young people under the age of 20 live in areas affected by Ebola in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. Of these, 2.5 million are under the age of five. The program's immediate focus is to help contain the spread of the disease and address communities immediate needs. [32]