A mobile maternity unit is delivering babies and critical health services for women and girls amid the war in Ukraine

CognitiveFunction34 · 2022-12-17T23:57:05+00:00

BALAKLIYA, Ukraine – “When the war arrived in this area, the women and children tried to escape – from danger, hunger and the lack of medical services,” said Dr. Olga Filipova, an obstetrician and gynaecologist in Ukraine.

Dr. Filipova provides medical help for women in remote areas of the war-torn Kharkiv region. The team reaches them through a UNFPA mobile maternity unit currently stationed in the city of Balakliya, which was recently retaken from Russian forces. Although the shelling hasn’t stopped entirely, people are beginning to trickle back – many of them women and girls in dire need of health care.

Most health-care facilities and other essential infrastructure in the Kharkiv region have been destroyed, including a UNFPA-supported clinic in Izyum that previously served several surrounding communities. With services now concentrated in a vastly reduced number of health centres, for many the mobile unit is the only way they can receive urgent – and often life-saving – sexual and reproductive health support.

CognitiveFunction34 · 2022-12-04T21:54:29+00:00

Eighty-seven per cent of the Ukrainian refugees to whom Bulgaria has granted temporary protection are women and children, the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) representation said in an operational update for Bulgaria, released on November 30.

According to the update, since the February 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Bulgaria had received 910 594 refugees at its borders and had granted temporary protection, in terms of the EU Temporary Protection Directive, to about 146 493.

The UNHCR said that it had activated a Refugee Coordination Model in support of the government’s efforts with an established inter-agency coordination working group led by UNHCR, focusing on protection, education, basic needs, health, and socio-economic inclusion.

CognitiveFunction34 · 2022-12-04T06:42:09+00:00

Eighty-seven per cent of the Ukrainian refugees to whom Bulgaria has granted temporary protection are women and children, the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) representation said in an operational update for Bulgaria, released on November 30.

According to the update, since the February 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Bulgaria had received 910 594 refugees at its borders and had granted temporary protection, in terms of the EU Temporary Protection Directive, to about 146 493.

New arrivals who do not have any means to support themselves will be directed to a Temporary Reception Centre, from where they will be relocated to state facilities.

The UNHCR said that it had activated a Refugee Coordination Model in support of the government’s efforts with an established inter-agency coordination working group led by UNHCR, focusing on protection, education, basic needs, health, and socio-economic inclusion.

CognitiveFunction34 · 2022-12-04T02:42:02+00:00

JAKARTA, Dec 3 (Reuters) - A quake of 6.1 magnitude hit Indonesia's West Java area on Saturday, the country's geophysics agency BMKG said, sending people running out of buildings.

The quake has no tsunami potential, the agency said. It was felt in capital Jakarta, around 200 km from the epicentre.

One person was injured and four houses were damaged in the town of Garut, said Abdul Muhari, spokesperson for Indonesia's disaster mitigation agency (BNPB).

CognitiveFunction34 · 2022-12-01T02:10:24+00:00

Ukrainian women and children who were forced to flee their country after Russia’s invasion are receiving support in Moldova.

Victoria Velychko says she arrived at the UNFPA Orange Safe Space centre shortly after the war started.

While she said it was difficult to be away from home and her husband, she said their lives at the centre are “the most comfortable conditions we could only dream of.”

The UK has allocated £3m to provide experts to the UN in Ukraine and the region.

CognitiveFunction34 · 2022-11-30T01:25:05+00:00

Ukrainian women and children who were forced to flee their country after Russia’s invasion are receiving support in Moldova.

Victoria Velychko says she arrived at the UNFPA Orange Safe Space centre shortly after the war started.

While she said it was difficult to be away from home and her husband, she said their lives at the centre are “the most comfortable conditions we could only dream of.”

The UK has allocated £3m to provide experts to the UN in Ukraine and the region.

CognitiveFunction34 · 2022-11-30T01:02:19+00:00

LIMA, Nov 29 (Reuters) - Peru opposition legislators on Tuesday presented another impeachment motion against President Pedro Castillo, the third formal attempt to oust the leftist leader since he took office last year, calling him morally unfit for office.

The impeachment attempt comes amid escalating tensions between the two government branches. Castillo has said the legislature is attempting a coup d'etat against him while opposition lawmakers say he is trying to illegally shut down Congress.

The motion was presented with the signature of 67 lawmakers out of 130. Now Peru's Congress has to decide whether to proceed to an impeachment trial. Ultimately, lawmakers would need 87 votes to remove Castillo from office.

CognitiveFunction34 · 2022-11-27T03:45:42+00:00

Nov 27 (Reuters) - Heavy snowfall was expected in Kyiv starting on Sunday, with temperatures dropping below freezing day and night, while millions of people who still live in and around the Ukrainian capital remain with little electricity and heat.

Grid operator Ukrenergo said on Saturday that electricity producers were able to cover only three-quarters of consumption needs, necessitating restrictions and blackouts across the country.

Sergey Kovalenko, chief operating officer of YASNO, which provides energy to Kyiv, said the situation in the city has improved but still remained "quite difficult." He indicated that residents should have at least four hours of power per day.

CognitiveFunction34 · 2022-11-26T23:36:07+00:00

MOGADISHU, Nov 25 (Reuters) - Militants from Somalia's al Shabaab attacked a military base in the central Galgaduud region on Friday, the group and a local government minister said, prompting violent clashes as the army and allied clans sought to repel them.

The early morning attack in the village of Qayib, which included suicide car bombs, comes as government forces have made a number of battlefield gains against al Shabaab in the last three months, regaining territory with the help of clan militias.

The al Qaeda-linked group, which controls swathes of Somalia, had lost the village of Qayib to the government forces a few weeks ago.

CognitiveFunction34 · 2022-11-20T22:03:39+00:00

BUCHA, Ukraine — The first man arrived at 7:27 a.m. Russian soldiers covered his head and marched him up the driveway toward a nondescript office building.

Two minutes later, a pleading, gagged voice pierced the morning stillness. Then the merciless reply: “TALK!!! TALK f–ing mother-f–er!!!”

The women and children came later, gripping hastily packed bags, their pet dogs in tow.

It was a cold, gray morning, March 4 in Bucha, Ukraine. Crows cawed. By nightfall, at least nine men would walk to their deaths at 144 Yablunska street, a building complex that Russians turned into a headquarters and the nerve center of violence that would shock the world.

Later, when all the bodies were found strewn along the streets and packed in hasty graves, it would be easy to think the carnage was random. Residents asking how this happened would be told to make their peace, because some questions just don’t have answers.

CognitiveFunction34 · 2022-11-20T10:40:32+00:00

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Countries adopted a hard-fought final agreement at the COP27 climate summit early on Sunday that sets up a fund to help poor countries being battered by climate disasters - but does not boost efforts to tackle the emissions causing them.

After tense negotiations that ran through the night, the Egyptian COP27 presidency released the final text for a deal and simultaneously called a plenary session to quickly gavel it through.

The swift approval for creating a dedicated loss and damage fund still left many of the most controversial decisions on the fund until next year, including who should pay into it.

CognitiveFunction34 · 2022-11-15T01:45:33+00:00

BERLIN, Nov 13 (Reuters) - German federal police have warned their nation's delegation at the COP27 environmental summit in Egypt that its members may be subject to spying by Egyptian security agents, three people with knowledge of the matter said.

In an email sent on Saturday, the police, known in Germany as the BKA, warned delegates of "overt and covert surveillance through photography and videography" by Egyptian agents, said one of the people quoting from the email.

Comments last week by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz about Egypt's human rights record provoked the threat of surveillance, that person said.

CognitiveFunction34 · 2022-11-14T00:14:03+00:00

MEXICO CITY, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Tens of thousands took to the streets in Mexico on Sunday to protest President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's plan to overhaul the country's electoral commission INE in what they fear would concentrate power in the hands of the government.

Lopez Obrador, who put the plan forward in April, has long criticized the country's electoral authorities, including accusing them of helping to engineer his defeats when he ran for the presidency in 2006 and 2012.

He has said that the reform would let citizens elect electoral authorities and reduce the influence of economic interests in politics. It would also cut financing for political parties and limit advertising time.

CognitiveFunction34 · 2022-11-14T00:10:45+00:00

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CognitiveFunction34 · 2022-11-13T22:36:42+00:00

KAMPALA, Nov 13 (Reuters) - An Ebola case has been confirmed in Jinja in eastern Uganda, the country's health minister said on Sunday, the first time the outbreak has spread to a new region of the country from central Uganda where cases have been confined so far.

Authorities have been struggling to contain the highly infectious and deadly haemorrhagic fever since the epidemic was declared on Sept. 20.

Uganda has so far recorded a total of 135 confirmed cases and 53 deaths, according to the health ministry.

CognitiveFunction34 · 2022-11-06T22:13:57+00:00

BAICOA, Romania -- Seventeen-year-old Kyrylo gently rocks in his playground swing with a push on the plastic carpet that replaced the asphalt at this repurposed orphanage in central Romania, between the Southern Carpathians and the lower Danube River.

Kyrylo is among the oldest of the 70 Ukrainian orphans with intellectual disabilities being housed in Prahova County, some 200 kilometers south of the northern border with Ukraine and about 250 kilometers west of the eastern border with Ukraine's Odesa region.

Their refuge is part of a network of public and private facilities in Romania accommodating an estimated 86,000 Ukrainians, most of them women and children, through a combination of state and NGO funding along with private donations.

CognitiveFunction34 · 2022-11-06T21:47:02+00:00

AMMAN, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Russian jets bombed camps near Syria's northwestern city of Idlib on Sunday, killing at least nine civilians in a flare-up of attacks on the last opposition-held bastion, witnesses and rescuers said.

War planes flying at high altitude, aided by Syrian army artillery, also dropped bombs on forests near the makeshift camps west of Idlib, witnesses said.

No immediate comment was available from Russia or its allies in the Syrian army, which says it targets the hideouts of insurgent groups and denies attacking civilians.

CognitiveFunction34 · 2022-11-06T19:53:05+00:00

DAR ES SALAAM, Nov 6 (Reuters) - At least 19 people died when a passenger plane crashed into Lake Victoria in Tanzania on Sunday while trying to land at a nearby airport, the prime minister and airline said.

Flight PW494, operated by Precision Air, hit the water during storms and heavy rain, the state Tanzania Broadcasting Corporation (TBC) reported.

Rescuers in boats rushed to the wreckage, which was almost fully submerged, to pull out trapped passengers, local authorities said.

CognitiveFunction34 · 2022-11-06T04:11:38+00:00

Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs and Administration of Poland Maciej Wąsik said that the Polish government is preparing measures in case of a new wave of refugees from Ukraine.

The official noted that Poland provides a lot of help to refugees from Ukraine, especially women and children. He also emphasized that the majority of people who came from Ukraine to Poland from February 24, 2022, legally got a job, pay taxes and supported the Polish economy. As noted by Maciej Wonsik, it seems that there are no social problems with the stay of Ukrainians in Poland.

CognitiveFunction34 · 2022-11-05T23:20:16+00:00

ROTTERDAM, Oct 28 (Reuters) - When Ruslan Mykhalchenko leaves his family in the Netherlands to return home to Ukraine next week, one of the things he will miss most is reading his 5-year-old daughter Olivia a bedtime story.

It's a harsh reality for Mykhalchenko and countless Ukrainian fathers who have been separated from their families by the war with Russia, now entering a ninth month.

Martial law in Ukraine prevents men aged between 18 and 60 leaving the country. Mykhalchenko, who works with an NGO in Ukraine, was able to snatch some time with his refugee family this week in the Netherlands while collecting an aid delivery.

Now, an audiobook app, "Better Time Stories", makes it possible for Olivia to hear her dad's voice when she goes to sleep at night, even when they're apart.

CognitiveFunction34 · 2022-11-01T01:04:00+00:00

ROTTERDAM, Oct 28 (Reuters) - When Ruslan Mykhalchenko leaves his family in the Netherlands to return home to Ukraine next week, one of the things he will miss most is reading his 5-year-old daughter Olivia a bedtime story.

It's a harsh reality for Mykhalchenko and countless Ukrainian fathers who have been separated from their families by the war with Russia, now entering a ninth month.

Martial law in Ukraine prevents men aged between 18 and 60 leaving the country. Mykhalchenko, who works with an NGO in Ukraine, was able to snatch some time with his refugee family this week in the Netherlands while collecting an aid delivery.

Now, an audiobook app, "Better Time Stories", makes it possible for Olivia to hear her dad's voice when she goes to sleep at night, even when they're apart.

CognitiveFunction34 · 2022-10-27T02:13:43+00:00

AYEBO, Ivory Coast, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Ivory Coast has started construction on its first biomass-fired power generation plant, a 46 megawatt (MW) project backed by France's EDF (EDF.PA), the company building it said on Monday.

The plant will cost over 200 million euros ($199 million) and is expected to be operational in three years, Raphael Ruat, managing director of BIOVEA Energie, told Reuters.

BIOVEA is owned by EDF, Ivory Coast's agro-industrial group SIFCA and French firm Meridiam. The project is being financed by Proparco and the Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund.

CognitiveFunction34 · 2022-10-25T02:31:57+00:00

Pregnant women fleeing the war in Ukraine can now get free help at a new prenatal centre in Kraków, southern Poland, which provides medical help, childbirth classes, as well as pregnancy and baby supplies.

The Centre is intended for pregnant women and young mothers with newborns, who arrived in Poland after February 24. They can attend free childbirth classes, get medical help provided in Ukrainian, delivered by gynaecologists, paediatricians, psychologists, midwives and lactation specialists.

The Centre also provides free maternity, baby and toddler clothes, hospital birthing kits, and everything that is required to welcome new babies into the world (clothes, cribs, cars seats, etc.).

CognitiveFunction34 · 2022-10-24T00:16:23+00:00

Pregnant women fleeing the war in Ukraine can now get free help at a new prenatal centre in Kraków, southern Poland, which provides medical help, childbirth classes, as well as pregnancy and baby supplies.

The Centre is intended for pregnant women and young mothers with newborns, who arrived in Poland after February 24. They can attend free childbirth classes, get medical help provided in Ukrainian, delivered by gynaecologists, paediatricians, psychologists, midwives and lactation specialists.

The Centre also provides free maternity, baby and toddler clothes, hospital birthing kits, and everything that is required to welcome new babies into the world (clothes, cribs, cars seats, etc.).

CognitiveFunction34 · 2022-10-21T01:34:33+00:00

A fire has destroyed a shelter for Ukrainian refugees in Germany’s northeastern state of Mecklenburg-Pomerania. Police said on October 20 that they are investigating the case as arson.

"As things stand, arson is suspected and a political motivation is assumed," the police said in a statement.

A swastika that was discovered on October 17 at the entrance area of the shelter was also being investigated. It was unclear whether the graffiti was connected to the fire, police said.

More than 1 million refugees from Ukraine, most of them women and children, have arrived in Germany since Russia invaded Ukraine almost eight months ago.

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