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World News in Brief: Ukraine war update, Philippines typhoon latest, demographic shift in Europe and Central Asia

·November 11, 2025·2 min read

Between Friday and early morning Monday, at least 15 civilians were killed and over 70 were injured, according to OCHA. On Saturday night, missile and drone attacks affected 10 regions: Chernihiv, Dnipro, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kherson, Kirovohrad, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Poltava and Sumy. Matthias Schmale, the humanitarian coordinator for the country, condemned the attacks, saying “civilians and civilian objects are...

Central African Republic: ‘3R’ combatants in the northwest lay down their arms

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·October 19, 2025·4 min read

Some carried weapons of war; others ammunition – the very items on which their eligibility for the disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR) process they were about to embark on depended. Well-wishes rang out from the small crowd of locals gathered in Sanguere-Lim, Koui Sub-Prefecture, to see the combatants off as...

Cholera outbreak in West and Central Africa poses crisis for children

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·July 31, 2025·2 min read

“The heavy rains, widespread flooding and the high level of displacement are all fuelling the risk of cholera transmission and putting the lives of children at risk,” said UNICEF regional director for West and Central Africa Gilles Fagninou. Cholera is an acute diarrhoeal infection caused by consuming food or water...

Upcoming elections ‘crucial opportunity’ for Central African Republic, UN top official tells Security Council

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·June 27, 2025·1 min read

December’s local, legislative and presidential elections “represent a crucial opportunity” to strengthen democratic governance, promote reconciliation and consolidate stability, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations told ambassadors in the Security Council. The timely holding of presidential and legislative elections is a constitutional requirement, and the Government has consistently demonstrated its...

Guterres condemns deadly attack on peacekeepers in Central African Republic

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·June 23, 2025·1 min read

The ambush took place on Friday along the Birao-Am Dafock axis in the volatile Vakaga Prefecture, in northeastern CAR, close to the border with conflict-hit Sudan. According to the stabilization mission, MINUSCA, the patrol was targeted by “unidentified armed elements” in the locality of Am-Sissia. Attack may be a war...

Central Africa at a crossroads amid rising tensions and instability

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·June 9, 2025·1 min read

With violence worsening in both the Lake Chad Basin and the Great Lakes, the Security Council met on Monday to examine the threats confronting the wider region. “Central Africa remains rich in potential, but the challenges are still significant,” said Abdou Abarry, Head of the UN Regional Office for Central...

More than 50 million in West and Central Africa at risk of hunger

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·May 11, 2025·3 min read

More than 36 million are struggling to meet their basic food needs, which is projected to rise to over 52 million during the lean season from June to August, latest analysis reveals. This includes almost three million people facing emergency conditions, and 2,600 people in Mali who are at risk...

UN deplores deadly attack on city in central Ukraine

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·April 5, 2025·1 min read

Matthias Schmale said he was outraged by reports of yet another Russian attack on the city, which is located in the Dnipro region. “This attack follows a deeply disturbing pattern of repeated attacks on populated areas across Ukraine that continue to kill and maim civilians,” he said, noting that the...

UN chief strongly condemns killing of Kenyan peacekeeper in Central African Republic

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·March 30, 2025·1 min read

A statement from the UN Spokesperson’s Office on behalf of António Guterres said the peacekeeper had been killed on Friday by so-far unknown assailants when his unit was on a long-range patrol near the village of Tabane in the Haut-Mbomou prefecture, in the southeast of the country. “The Secretary-General expresses...

UN staff member killed in central Gaza blast, five others injured

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·March 20, 2025·3 min read

The UN is verifying and confirming the details, including the circumstances that led up to the incident at the compound,, but it was not due to “any action” that was being taken by UN personnel to remove “unexploded ordinance”, the head of the UN Office for Project Services (UNOPS) said...

Millions in Central Sahel and Nigeria face food cuts amid WFP funding crisis

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·March 9, 2025·1 min read

The crisis is being exacerbated by the expected early arrival of the lean season – the period between harvests when hunger peaks. Chronic hunger is being driven by conflict, displacement, economic instability and severe climate shocks, WFP said, with devastating floods in 2024 affecting over six million people across West...

UN report reveals brutal attacks targeting Muslims, refugees in Central African Republic

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·March 5, 2025·3 min read

Investigations by the UN human rights office (OHCHR) and the UN peacekeeping mission in the country, MINUSCA, found evidence of summary executions, sexual violence and torture. Other violations included cruel and degrading treatment, forced labour, and looting of homes and shops. Decades of instability CAR has been plagued by decades...