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SECURITY COUNCIL LIVE: Haiti ‘shamefully overlooked’, warns Guterres

·August 29, 2025·1 min read

Haitians are enduring a “perfect storm of suffering” the UN Secretary-General António Guterres told the Security Council on Thursday as gang violence continues to paralyse daily life across the island. Around 1.3 million people – half of them children – have fled their homes and six million are relying on humanitarian assistance. Follow...

UN peacekeeping mandate in Lebanon faces scrutiny ahead of Security Council vote

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·August 27, 2025·4 min read

As members of the UN Security Council negotiate the renewal of the UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) ahead of a 31 August deadline, the mission’s future role and capacity are under intense debate. UNIFIL has long been a stabilising presence in southern Lebanon, working alongside the Lebanese armed forces,...

Libya: Security Council urged to back popular ‘yearning’ for national elections

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·August 25, 2025·3 min read

Hannah Tetteh, who also heads the UN Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), briefed ambassadors in the wake of municipal council elections last week and outlined a proposed roadmap to general elections, which should have been held way back in 2021. “The Libyan people look to this esteemed Council for help, to...

DR Congo: Rising insecurity in the east impedes diplomatic progress, Security Council hears

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·August 23, 2025·1 min read

Despite diplomatic progress in recent months, with the United States brokering a peace agreement between the DRC and Rwanda, and Qatar facilitating a Declaration of Principles between the Congolese Government and M23 rebels, tensions remain high in the eastern DRC – where multiple armed groups operate. The Security Council...

Terror threat posed by ISIL ‘remains volatile and complex,’ Security Council hears

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·August 21, 2025·2 min read

While multiple Da’esh leaders have perished in the past few years, “the group has managed to retain its operational capacity”, Vladimir Voronkov, head of the UN Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT) told the Security Council Wednesday. Da’esh makes use of regional and domestic affiliates and continues to receive substantial global...

Security Council hears about rising conflict-related sexual violence amid falling resources

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·August 20, 2025·2 min read

The crisis of CRSV is deepening, reflecting the widening scope of warfare globally. There were more than 4,600 reported cases of conflict-related sexual violence in 2024, marking a 25 per cent increase from 2023. And this data, Ms. Patten underscored, is a chronic undercount, only reflecting cases verified by the...

South Sudanese ‘are counting on us’, top UN official tells Security Council

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·August 18, 2025·2 min read

Referencing the recent quarterly report from the Secretary-General on challenges facing the world’s youngest nation, Ms. Pobee underscored that since March, previous gains in the peace process have been largely eroded. Military offensives, primarily involving South Sudan’s rival militia which answers to the First Vice President and Government troops loyal to...

Safe seas key to global prosperity, Security Council told

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·August 12, 2025·4 min read

Keeping sea routes safe today while also addressing emerging challenges was the focus of a debate in the UN Security Council on Monday which was convened by Panama, president for the month of August. Arsenio Dominguez, Secretary-General of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), told the Council that last year, a...

Security Council voices deep concern over deadly escalation in Syria’s Sweida region

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·August 11, 2025·1 min read

Unrest began on 12 July when mutual kidnappings escalated into armed conflict between Druze groups and Bedouin tribes, drawing in Syrian security forces. The violence spiralled, with reports of extrajudicial executions, desecration of corpses and looting. Footage circulated widely on social media fanned sectarian tensions and disinformation. Nearly 200,000 displaced...

‘There is no military solution’ to end Israel-Palestine conflict, Security Council hears, as starvation stalks the Gaza Strip

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·August 11, 2025·2 min read

Two top UN officials warned that the Israeli cabinet’s green light this week for a fresh offensive aimed at gaining total military control of Gaza City – home to around one million Palestinians – would only risk igniting “another horrific chapter” of displacement, death and destruction. Miroslav Jenča, Assistant Secretary-General...

SECURITY COUNCIL LIVE: Ambassadors meet in emergency session, amid starvation in the Gaza Strip

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·August 10, 2025·1 min read

The UN Security Council met Sunday morning in New York following the Israeli cabinet’s decision to again expand its military operation inside the Gaza Strip and take full control of the key population centre of Gaza City. UN chief António Guterres described it earlier as a “dangerous escalation” for the...

LIVE: UN Security Council meets on crisis in Ukraine

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·August 3, 2025·1 min read

The UN Security Council meets Friday afternoon to discuss the ongoing crisis in Ukraine, where recent attacks have left dozens dead or injured. A senior UN political affairs official is expected to brief on the situation. Follow our live coverage from UN News, in coordination with UN Meetings Coverage, for...