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Two boys walk amid the rubble of destroyed buildings in Gaza City on October 16, 2025.
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Gaza death toll surpasses 69,000 as thousands await evacuation

The WHO called for more countries to accept Palestinian patients, noting that many of the surgeries needed cannot be performed in Gaza amid a lack of equipment

The New Arab Staff
11 November, 2025
A Palestinian woman walks in front of an Israeli rocket in the street in Gaza City, on October 30, 2025. (Photo by Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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Gaza's health ministry launches emergency child vaccine drive

Sally Ibrahim
10 November, 2025
Workers load aid supplies from World Health Organization (WHO) and UAEAID into a plane bound for Port Sudan at the Abu Dhabi International Airport in Abu Dhabi on May 5, 2023.
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WHO condemns reported 'horrific' mass killing in Sudan hospital

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
30 October, 2025
Some patients, being treated at Kamal al-Awde hospital, transferred to Al-Shifa and Al Ahli Baptist hospitals in coordination with the World Health Organization (WHO)
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Nearly 42,000 people in Gaza have 'life-changing injuries': WHO

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
03 October, 2025
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Darfur cholera cases rising fast as Sudan death toll tops 3,000

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
24 September, 2025
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Afghanistan
MENA
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WHO urges Taliban to lift ban on female aid workers

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
08 September, 2025
A limited number of trucks carrying humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip are allowed to pass through the Rafah border crossing from Egypt
Gaza War
MENA
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Medical supplies for GBS run out as cases rise in Gaza, WHO says

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
29 August, 2025
A woman prays by one of the makeshift graves of those buried in Khartoum's southern suburb of al-Azhari on August 2, 2025 when the area was under control of the Rapid Support Forces. (Photo by EBRAHIM HAMID/AFP via Getty Images)
Sudan
MENA
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Sudan records around 100,000 cholera cases in space of a year

The New Arab Staff
09 August, 2025
Seven-month-old Salim Mahmoud Awad suffers significant weight loss due to the lack of baby formula and food after being displaced to Gaza City, Gaza with his family, on July 26, 2025.
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WHO says malnutrition reaching 'alarming levels' in Gaza

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
27 July, 2025
A fuel truck crosses into Gaza from the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing in Rafah on 19 January 2025
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MENA
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Gaza fuel crisis puts entire population at risk, aid groups warn

Oliver Mizzi
03 July, 2025
Gaza hunger
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Israel kills over 85, as 81% of Gaza now in 'militarised zones'

The New Arab Staff
23 May, 2025
WHO states adopt landmark pandemic preparedness deal [Getty]
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WHO countries strike landmark deal on tackling future pandemics

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
16 April, 2025
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Health
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WHO raises alarm as 75% of UN aid efforts blocked from Gaza

The New Arab Staff
11 April, 2025
World Health Organization and UN teams evacuate some Palestinians fr
Israel
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Israel considers quitting WHO over Gaza war criticism

The New Arab Staff
09 March, 2025
The headquarters of the World Health Organization (WHO) stands on January 23, 2025 in Geneva, Switzerland
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World
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WHO reviewing 'priorities' ahead of US exit

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
24 January, 2025
Donald Trump inauguration [Getty]
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10 executive orders issued by Trump that will reshape the world

The New Arab Staff
21 January, 2025
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Post-Assad Syria
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Medical relief orgs should invest in Syrian healthcare workers

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Sasha Fahme

07 January, 2025
Kamal Adwan hospital [Getty]
Gaza War
MENA
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Gaza's Kamal Adwan hospital 'now empty' after Israeli raid: WHO

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
28 December, 2024
Boys check a fire that broke out in a destroyed house in a war-torn neighborhood in Omdurman
Sudan
MENA
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Sudan paramilitary drone attack kills 38 people

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
16 December, 2024
Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus addresses a Sport and Sustainable Development Summit at the Carrousel du Louvre (Louvre Carrousel) in Paris on July 25, 2024
Gaza War
World
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WHO chief says Israel tanks fired on Gaza aid convoy

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
17 September, 2024
Mpox has now been recorded in Morocco after the spread of it in Congo [Getty]
Morocco
MENA
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Fears in Morocco as Marrakesh reports first mpox case

Basma El Atti
Nadda Osman
13 September, 2024