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Security Council: New faces, old tensions as five nations take their seats

·January 4, 2026·4 min read

Bahrain, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Latvia and Liberia have begun two-year terms as non-permanent members, replacing Algeria, Guyana, the Republic of Korea, Sierra Leone and Slovenia, whose terms ended last month. They join the other five non-permanent members – Denmark, Greece, Pakistan, Panama and Somalia – who...

Ukraine faces freezing winter under fire as UN warns of rising civilian toll

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·December 10, 2025·2 min read

Briefing ambassadors, Kayoko Gotoh, Director of the Europe and Central Asia Division at the Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, said 2025 has been one of the deadliest years for civilians since Russia’s full-scale invasion began nearly four years ago. Civilian casualties between January and November were 24 per cent...

Conflict and hunger ‘two faces of the same crisis’, UN deputy chief tells Security Council

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·November 18, 2025·3 min read

“This Council’s mandate is maintenance of international peace and security, and there can be neither peace where people are starving, nor security where hunger drives conflict,” she said. A recent UN report warned that the world’s most extreme food crises are driven primarily by armed conflict and violence, including famines...

Ukraine faces ‘unprecedented housing crisis’

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·November 16, 2025·1 min read

More than 236,000 buildings have been destroyed or damaged during the war and over 2.5 million housing units – around 10 per cent of the housing stock – have been damaged in some way or are inaccessible due to the ongoing conflict. The shortage of municipal housing combined with an...

UN faces ‘race to bankruptcy’ as Guterres unveils sharply reduced 2026 budget

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·October 20, 2025·2 min read

The revised proposal marks a significant drop from his original ask for next year of $3.715 billion and is 15.1 per cent below the 2025 approved appropriation. Speaking to the Fifth Committee of the General Assembly – which handles UN finances and administration – Mr. Guterres described a deeply precarious...

Afghanistan faces ‘perfect storm’ of crises, UN warns

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·September 18, 2025·4 min read

Roza Otunbayeva, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan, told ambassadors that while the country has seen a relative decline in armed conflict since the Taliban takeover in 2021, the humanitarian, economic and human rights situation has deteriorated significantly. “It is an open question whether there is sufficient pragmatism among the...

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,...

UN envoy urges Colombia to ‘stay the course’ as peace faces new strains

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·July 19, 2025·2 min read

Briefing the Security Council for the last time as head of the UN Verification Mission, Special Representative Carlos Ruiz Massieu said the peace agreement provided a roadmap for addressing the root causes of conflict. “The Final Peace Agreement of 2016 set out the path to be followed: a holistic and...

Absent faces, destroyed homes – young students paint the pain of Gaza

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·May 8, 2025·4 min read

Their paintings and drawings range from a portrait of an esteemed Palestinian poet and family members killed in conflict, to a sky blackened by thick smoke – and a child crying in front of his mother’s corpse. The poignant images are currently on display at UNRWA’s Remal School in Gaza...

Haiti faces ‘point of no return’ as gang violence fuels chaos

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·April 21, 2025·2 min read

Special Representative María Isabel Salvador told ambassadors in the Security Council that a “deliberate and coordinated” campaign is being waged by organized crime groups to expand territorial control and paralyse the capital, Port-au-Prince. Recent gang attacks have targeted previously unaffected areas such as Delmas and Pétion-Ville, while the storming...

Gaza faces deepening crisis as aid stocks dwindle

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·April 17, 2025·1 min read

More than 500,000 people are reported to have been newly displaced since 18 March, many of them uprooted multiple times due to ongoing military operations across the Gaza Strip. Conditions on the ground are deteriorating rapidly, with critical shortages in basic supplies and growing malnutrition, especially among children. “Tents are...

Sudan faces unprecedented hunger and displacement as war enters third year

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·April 14, 2025·3 min read

As the war enters its third year, UN humanitarians warn that immediate action is essential. “This is a manmade crisis, driven by conflict – not by drought or floods or earthquakes and because of the obstruction of access to humanitarian assistance by parties to the conflict,” Shaun Hugues, Regional Emergency...