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Daphnee Cook retweeted
The humanitarian crisis in #Sudan is worsening:
🚩Escalation of violence to #Gezira state
🚩 ⬆️displacement
🚩 ⬆️malnutrition
🚩#Cholera in 9 states
@WHO stands with Sudan’s people to ensure access to life-saving care and essential services.
Read more👉 bit.ly/3RpIpRU
Daphnee Cook retweeted
MEDIA RELEASE: Nearly 500 children die from hunger in #Sudan as fighting halts life-saving treatment programmes. @save_children has been forced to close 57 of its nutrition facilities, with 31,000 children missing out on treatment for malnutrition and related illnesses.
Daphnee Cook retweeted
FEATURED in @guardian
Dire crisis for children in #Sudan - Up to 17,000 children a day have been falling into crisis levels of hunger @save_children warned.
“It’s impossible to overemphasise the seriousness of the situation in Sudan" - Dr Arif Noor.
theguardian.com/global-devel…
Daphnee Cook retweeted
📍#Sudan
With 1000s of corpses reported to be decomposing on the streets of #Khartoum and the inability to give a dignified burial, @Save_Children says " We are seeing a health crisis in the making, on top of a crisis of sorrow, fear and pain".
savethechildren.net/news/kha…
Daphnee Cook retweeted
"To build #Africa that we aspire, we need to put more efforts in building capacity of the young people towards #empowering them to be more innovative, helping them to be leaders, and giving them the knowledge" @AngelaKauleni speaking to @cnbcafrica
cnbcafrica.com/media/6331745…
Daphnee Cook retweeted
After 100 days of war in #Sudan , credible reports implicate the RSF in genocidal violence. The group is assassinating the intelligentsia of the Masalit tribe, burning villages and destroying all vital facilities.
My latest for @AJEnglish
aljazeera.com/news/2023/7/24….
Daphnee Cook retweeted
A spike in #Dengue fever outbreaks across Asia is putting children at risk with the situation set to get worse in the coming weeks as #floods #heatwaves and #ElNiño create perfect breeding grounds for mosquitos - @save_children warned
savethechildren.net/news/den…
Daphnee Cook retweeted
“There is an egregious failure of diplomacy here, we see too much competition and too little cooperation,” says @alanboswell
Meanwhile, civilians are caught in the middle:
- At least 3,000 killed;
- About 2.6m IDP;
- More than 750,000 crossed into neighbouring countries.
Daphnee Cook retweeted
Thanks to the journalists not turning away from what is happening in Sudan
Daphnee Cook retweeted
Witnessing the unimaginable: Adré refugee camp – a sprawling shelter that didn't exist three months ago. Now it's a temporary home for 130,000 Sudanese refugees with nowhere else to go, seeking safety in Chad.
This is the price innocent people pay for war. #ChadEmergency
ALT Aerial shot of Adre refugee camp, Chad. Photo: WFP/Julian Civiero
Daphnee Cook retweeted
In a historic moment, a girl child speaks at @security_un for the first time in person at CAAC, urging children's participation in peace processes based on her own experience growing up amidst conflict.
Read ➡️ bit.ly/3JMDCH0
Watch media.un.org/en/asset/k1z/k1…
Daphnee Cook retweeted
Save the Children has a really strong report on Palestinian children in military detention coming out Monday - the same day the UN Special Rapporteur presents evidence on this issue to the HRC. Global journalists please DM or email me for an embargoed press release/copy
Daphnee Cook retweeted
Buzzing #climate champions - honeybees - have been transported to #SolomonIslands to help remote communities protect the ecosystems, rebuild families' incomes, and fight against #ClimateCrisis
🐝A BUZZworthy story🐝
Visual and content available for media #ClimateActionNow
Daphnee Cook retweeted
#DRC is ‘the worst place in the world’ for violence against children - abduction, sexual violence, killing, school attacks.
@Save_Children calls on global powers to intervene.
"Children living in conflict zones deserve a future"
More on @Humangle 👇humanglemedia.com/war-crimes…
Daphnee Cook retweeted
Harrowing stories from #GreeceBoatDisaster told by @save_children partner:
- The smugglers didn’t allow food or water on board.
- On the second level, there were around 25 women, children, even babies. €50 needed to go up on higher level
Read more👇
news.com.au/world/europe/can…
Daphnee Cook retweeted
If any global journalists covering nature-based solutions to the climate crisis follow me, let me know - we at @Save_GlobalNews have a lovely photo-led story from the Solomon Islands. A positive angle for a change!