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TRIPOLI William Karlsson Jersey , May 17 (Xinhua) -- Chief of Staff of Egyptian Armed Forces, Lieutenant-General Mahmoud Hijazi, on Wednesday arrived in the Libyan eastern city of Benghazi for talks over cooperation and fighting against terrorism.


"With a high-level military delegation, Hijazi was received by the Libyan Chief of Staff of the Libyan Army, Abdul-Razzaq Al-Nadori, at Benina International Airport, officially opened after three years of closure due to military operations against terrorists in Benghazi," a source in the Libyan Armed Forces Information Office told Xinhua.


Hijazi will go to the headquarters of the army's General Directorate in Marj city to meet the Commander-in-Chief of the Libyan Army, Major General Khalifa Hafer, to discuss military cooperation between the two countries and to confirm Cairo's support for the Libyan army in its fight against terrorism, the source added.


This is the first visit by an Arab or western military official to Benghazi since the launch of the army's military campaign on extremist groups in the city three years ago.


The Egyptian authorities appointed Hijazi in August 2016 in a committee to follow up the Libyan file, aimed to conduct contacts between the crisis teams, and to bring them closer together in support of the political agreement.


The committee invited Fayez Sarraj, UN-backed Prime Minister, and General Khalifa Haftar to visit Cairo on several occasions, to discuss means to solve the dispute between the two officials.


The unannounced visit comes one day after the third anniversary of the military operation called "Dignity" which was launched by Haftar on May 2014 against extremist groups in Benghazi.


Hafter, who was appointed by the eastern-based Libyan parliament as commander-in-chief of the armed forces, gained control of all the eastern cities of the country months after the launch of the military campaign, except for the city of Derna and small areas of Benghazi.


"The armed forces will not leave Tripoli as a haven for terrorists," Haftar said on the occasion of the third anniversary of the his military campaign.


UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 26 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations on Saturday launched an ambitious public-private strategy to end preventable deaths of women, children and adolescents, with initial commitments of more than 25 billion U.S. dollars for the next five years to provide life-saving treatments, from immunizations to perinatal care.


The Global Strategy for Women's, Children's and Adolescents'Health includes new policies and ground-breaking partnerships from 40 countries and more than 100 international organizations, philanthropic foundations, UN agencies, civil society and the private sector.


"The Global Strategy for Women's, Children's and Adolescents' Health, which I am proud to launch today, will help to build resilient and healthy societies," said UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.


"We have shown that our partnership can yield concrete results," Ban said. "I, and the entire UN system, remain dedicated to saving and improving the lives of the most vulnerable amongst us."


The commitments, which are expected to grow significantly in the coming years, include 3.3 billion U.S. dollars from the United States, 2.6 billion dollars from Canada, 2.5 billion dollars from Sweden, 1.3 billion dollars from Germany, 420 million dollars from Norway, 326 million dollars from the Netherlands, and 300 million dollars from the Republic of Korea.


The Strategy builds on 15 years of progress under the Millennium Development Goals and the Every Woman Every Child movement, a partnership launched in 2010 to mobilize and intensify international and national action by governments, multilaterals, the private sector and civil society to address the major health challenges facing women and children.


Earlier this year, the secretary-general said such preventable deaths could be ended within a generation with political commitment, an increase in financing and strong partnership.


He noted that remarkable progress had already been made on preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission, increasing availability of oral rehydration therapy for treating infant diarrhoea, exclusive breastfeeding and in post-natal care for women, as well as increasing professional maternity care, family planning, childhood vaccinations, and prenatal care.


The Saturday announcement comes on the heels of the adoption by world leaders on Friday of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, comprising 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that aim to wipe out extreme poverty, fight inequality and tackle climate change over the next 15 years.


JAKARTA, Sept. 18 (Xinhua) -- Haze in Indonesia has caused more than 30,000 people suffering from health problems, most of which are respiratory ones including pneumonia, in Riau province, the hardest-hit region, official disclosed here on Friday.


Indonesian health ministry reported 25,834 people suffering from under respiratory infection, 538 others having pneumonia ( serious respiratory problem), 2,246 people getting skin irritation problem, and 1,656 people having eye irritation problem, said Achmad Yurianto, head of crisis center of the ministry.


"As people have suffered from pneumonia, this indicates that it (the danger) has come into alert level. Today (Friday) we sent dozens of doctors, including specialist at lung, to help settle the impact," he said at the health ministry.


To prevent further impact on the people, the health ministry has also distributed over 63,000 masks to the local residence, said Yurianto.


The ministry called the people to keep their body health resistance to prevent from the diseases, he said.


The haze in Sumatra and Borneo has also disturbed flights and spread into neighboring Malaysia and Singapore.


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