In this week’s show, just one in seven COVID cases is detected in Africa while deaths from another deadly disease – tuberculosis – rise for the first time in a decade, the World Health Organization tells us. An update too from Afghanistan, where the UN refugee agency is desperately worried about a lack of funds for lifesaving aid work – and plunging winter temperatures…We’ll also meet the team behind The Walk, an ambitious project to raise awareness about Syrian refugees, which involves walking a huge puppet across Europe.
This content originally appeared on UN News and was authored by Daniel Johnson, Solange Behoteguy Cortes - UN Geneva.
Daniel Johnson, Solange Behoteguy Cortes - UN Geneva | Radio Free (2021-10-14T18:19:04+00:00) UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva: Africa’s COVID tracing gap, TB alert, Afghanistan and ‘The Walk’. Retrieved from https://www.radiofree.org/2021/10/14/un-catch-up-dateline-geneva-africas-covid-tracing-gap-tb-alert-afghanistan-and-the-walk/
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