UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva: Tigray, Palestinian economic decline, and meningitis

In this week’s show, the UN’s top humanitarian official says that famine is likely happening in Ethiopia’s Tigray, while food waste and poor diets continue to handicap millions of children worldwide, the Food and Agriculture Organization says.

We’ll also hear about bleak prospects for recovery in the Occupied Palestinian Territories from UN economists UNCTAD, and a global initiative to tackle meningitis, with the help of the World Health Organization. 

 

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