(Excerpt) Caribbean — COVAX An update on COVAX: Jamaica has become the first country in the Caribbean to receive COVAX-backed vaccines. Last week, an initial batch of more than 14,000 doses arrived...
(Excerpt) South Sudan Our peacekeeping colleagues tell us that peacekeepers serving with the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) have repaired 300 kilometres of road between Juba and Rokon. This is an...
(Excerpt) Myanmar And moving on to Myanmar, where the UN team there said that women across the country are once again demonstrating their leadership and agency following more than one month of...
(Excerpt) Ebola Turning to an update on the Ebola situation. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, vaccination teams are working in the north-east of the country. WHO (World Health Organization)...
(excerpt) Ebola The UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mark Lowcock, today announced an initial rapid allocation of $15 million from the UN’s Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF). This is to go to...
(excerpt) Haiti Turning to Haiti, just a quick humanitarian update on the country, given all that is going on. The number of people in need has increased drastically over the past year. As a result,...
(excerpt) Eswatini A quick update from Eswatini on what our colleagues on the ground are doing there to address the pandemic: The UN team, led by Resident Coordinator Nathalie Ndongo-Seh, has been...
(excerpt) Also on the Central African Republic, the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) tells us that during Friday’s...
(excerpt) Comoros — COVID-19 And an interesting update for you — or at least we thought it was interesting — on what we’re doing to address the COVID-19 pandemic in the Comoros. The UN team, led by...
(excerpt) Lesotho — COVID-19 And an update from the ground in Lesotho on what our UN team, led by acting Resident Coordinator Anurita Bains, is doing to address the pandemic. The team says that,...