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New York, US – Heads of human rights components of UN peace missions will meet at the organization's headquarters in New York on 6–10 February to discuss protection of human rights during peace operations.

Khartoum, Sudan - In Sudan, 35 per cent of children below the age of five, or nearly two million, are suffering from stunting, the United Nations Children Emergency Fund (UNICEF) charges. And it is a global crisis that the world is largely ignorant of. That is how UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake describes the plight of 180 million children under the age of five around the world whose bodies and minds are limited by stunting.

New York, US - The World Health Organization (WHO) on Saturday said that early diagnosis was the key to reducing the nearly eight million deaths caused by cancer across the globe annually. WHO in a statement to mark the World Cancer Day, which is observed on 4 February, also stressed the importance of screening programmes for healthy people to detect the disease promptly for easier treatment.

New York, US - The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHE) has voiced concern over a cattle raid in a northern state of South Sudan earlier this week, which led to 78 deaths and numerous injuries among civilians, most of whom were women and children.

New York, US - The World Food Programme (WFP) on Friday said it was distributing food rations in Mozambique, where an estimated 70,000 people were in urgent need of assistance after the country was pounded by two tropical storms.

Provide relief assistance to Sudan - A Senior UN official has warned of “dire consequences' for the people of South Sudan if the world does not provide relief assistance to them. Ms Valerie Amos, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator (ERC), said relief was required for victims of internal communal disputes, returnees from Sudan and displaced persons because of the war in neirhbouring regions in Sudan.

Security Mali-Mauritania - Mali's ambassador in Mauritania, Souleymane Koné, on Friday assured Mauritanians living in his country of their security.

UN investigation team 'attacked' in South Sudan - The UN mission in South Sudan has said its investigation team came under fire while probing reports of a massacre of nearly 80 people by armed men in uniform on Wednesday, the South Sudan-based UN-funded Radio Miraya reported on Saturday.

Doctors' strike still makes headlines in Tanzanian press - For the second week in succession, the strike by doctors working in public hospitals and manoeuvres by health authorities to avert a disastrous situation as the public became impatient with the stalemate between the two parties, made headlines in the Tanzanian dailies this week

Domestic issues dominate Nigerian media - Domestic issues and violence, including the Boko Haram menace and the mass burial of its victims, dominated front pages in Nigeria this week. The week, the first in February, followed January, which has been aptly described as 'A month of fires and raving revolution'. It also x-rayed reports of the NUPENG and ASUU strikes, subsidy probe and judgement for the late Kudirat Abiola, wife of the acclaimed winner of the June 12, 1993, presidential election in Nigeria, Chief M.K.O. Abiola.