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• From silence to strength: Women leaders speak out in South Sudan

  Scolded for wanting to go to school as a girl and dismissed or ignored as an adult, Awrelia from Wau in South Sudan has learnt to advocate for herself, her children and for the women in her community.

• Nigeria: Schools should be ‘sanctuaries not targets’ says deputy UN chief following latest mass abduction

  The UN Deputy Secretary-General voiced deep alarm on Saturday over the latest mass abduction from a school in Nigeria, calling for the immediate release of those taken.

• ‘Leave no one behind’: As wealth gap widens, UN calls for new industrial deal for world’s poorest

  Ministers and leaders from across the world’s 44 least developed countries have pledged to accelerate industrialisation that benefits all, and strengthen resilience in the face of global challenges, at an international UN conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. 

• UN presents UN80 Initiative Action Plan, setting coordinated path for system-wide reforms

  The United Nations outlined how it intends to advance one of its most comprehensive system-wide reform efforts in decades, as Under-Secretary-General for Policy Guy Ryder presented the UN80 Initiative Action Plan. The plan brings the Secretary-General’s major UN80 reform proposals into a single, coherent structure to streamline efforts that will make the UN system deliver better.

• UN decries ‘truly horrific’ massacres in DR Congo

  Seventeen civilians, including women in labour and patients receiving care, were slaughtered inside a Catholic Church-run health centre in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) last week.

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