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At a press conference in Nairobi, Kenya, the head of the UN's refugee agency Filippo Grandi says, "Today we pass the mark of half a million refugees from Sudan, following the beginning of the conflict." He also says that the number of people now internally displaced in the conflict torn nation is now at two million. SOUNDBITE
Panama, Feb 18 (EFE) .- The Secretary-General of the Organization of American States (OAS), the Uruguayan Luis Almagro, called on Tuesday for humanitarian aid for "7 million people who are at risk of hunger" in Venezuela.(CAMERA: Bienvenido Velasco)IMAGES: RESOURCES AND DECLARATIONS OF THE SECRETARY-GENERAL OF OAS, LUIS ALMAGRO"It would be hard for me (to describe) the conditions of the Venezuelan dictatorship, of the 5 million migrants and the 7 million who are at risk of hunger; of the thousands who have been tortured; of the relatives of the 14,000 political prisoners during recent years in Venezuela, in a system of broken doors"
Some 200,000 people have now fled Sudan to escape fighting that erupted in mid-April, in addition to hundreds of thousands who have been displaced inside the country, says UN refugee agency spokesperson Olga Sarrado. SOUNDBITE
World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus estimates the number of deaths caused by Covid-19 to be "at least 20 million", well above the official number reported to WHO of "almost seven million deaths". SOUNDBITE
The number of refugees who have fled Ukraine since the Russian army invaded on February 24 has exceeded two million, says Paul Dillon, spokesman for the International Organization for Migration (IOM), at a press conference of UN agencies in Geneva. SOUNDBITE
European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell says the EU "must be prepared to host 5 million people" from Ukraine ahead of a meeting for EU ministers in Montpellier, in southern France. IMAGES
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