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Funding crisis forces deep cuts to UN peacekeeping missions

·October 17, 2025·2 min read

The crisis, which UN peacekeeping chief Jean-Pierre Lacroix described as “more daunting than ever,” follows the partial non-payment of assessed contributions – the mandatory dues Member States pay to finance UN operations in some of the world’s most volatile regions – operating at a level well below the approved 2025-26...

Political crisis and corruption fuelling violence in South Sudan, UN rights body says

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·October 14, 2025·3 min read

The Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan issued the warning at the conclusion of a mission to the Africa Union (AU) headquarters in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa. South Sudan gained independence from Sudan in July 2011, but deadly fighting broke out in late 2013 between troops loyal to President...

Bold, diverse and unstoppable: Girls speak out amid a world in crisis

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·October 13, 2025·2 min read

Alongside senior officials from the UN community, they commemorated the International Day of the Girl Child through declarations, dialogue and a show of solidarity for their peers in Afghanistan and elsewhere, whose voices have been silenced. Nafisa from Ghana, 16, spoke up for girls “whose dreams are shaken by crisis”,...

Europe’s health system under strain as doctors and nurses face mental health crisis

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·October 10, 2025·1 min read

The landmark survey, funded under WHO/Europe’s project with the European Commission – coinciding with World Mental Health Day – analysed nearly 100,000 responses from 29 countries, from October 2024 until April this year. The key finding is that doctors and nurses are working in conditions that harm their mental health...

UN warns of ‘catastrophic’ humanitarian crisis in Sudan’s Darfur

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·October 5, 2025·2 min read

All this, while aid convoys remain blocked from reaching hundreds of thousands trapped close to the frontlines and as the military government and their rival Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia battle for control of Sudan. Speaking from Tawila, 50 kilometres (about 31 miles) from El Fasher in North Darfur, Humanitarian...

World News in Brief: ‘Trust crisis’ impacts vaccine rollouts, Cyberspace must ‘serve the common good’, Türk calls for lasting truce in Lebanon

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·October 2, 2025·2 min read

And because healthcare spending is also under pressure around the world, it should be a priority to develop so-called combination vaccines, the panel insisted. WHO immunisation chief Dr. Kate O’Brien, stressed that the combination MMR jab that protects against measles, mumps and rubella, is safe for children. ‘Significant risks’ “What is really...

Breathless in Gaza: Health crisis deepens as families burn plastic for fuel

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·October 1, 2025·3 min read

Um Muhammad al-Masri, displaced from the northern town of Beit Hanoun, never lets go of her asthma inhaler. She says she would die without it. Smoke fills her tent, where she runs a primitive furnace fuelled by trash. “I was prescribed medicine, but I couldn’t afford it, so UNRWA [the...

From crisis to community cure: A Haitian mother fights back against cholera

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·October 1, 2025·4 min read

When her 11-year-old daughter, Noel-Dina, was struck by fever and unbearable abdominal pain, Oriata didn’t hesitate. She immediately took her child to the nearest hospital. “She couldn’t walk anymore because she was so weak. I had to carry her on my back. I was terribly worried and thought I was going...

World News in Brief: New declaration on NCDs and mental health, Khartoum shelter crisis, WFP lifeline in Ukraine, South Sudan rights update

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·September 29, 2025·3 min read

The text, negotiated over five months, will go before the General Assembly for approval in just a few weeks’ time. It was adopted at a high-level meeting at UN Headquarters late on Thursday, where heads of State, government leaders and health ministers stressed the urgency of coordinated action. NCDs such as...

‘The UN is in a state of crisis’ warns Indian senior government minister

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·September 28, 2025·2 min read

“How has the UN lived up to expectations,” asked Mr. Jaishankar, pointing to the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East, as well as West Asia and “innumerable hotspots” which “don’t even make the news.” The minister decried a perceived lack of global solidarity on a number of issues: he...

UN chief sounds alarm over worsening crisis in Sudan’s El Fasher

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·September 21, 2025·1 min read

El Fasher has been under a tightening siege by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) for more than 500 days, with attacks against civilians intensifying in recent weeks. The majority of residents in the nearby Abu Shouk displacement camp have reportedly fled following relentless shelling and raids. “The fighting must...

Sudan crisis: Surge in summary executions by all warring parties

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·September 20, 2025·2 min read

Images from the site of the strike show mangled metal roofing that used to provide cover for worshippers; it comes as the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces – or RSF – continue their push to take control of El Fasher, as they battle forces of the military government. The UN Humanitarian...