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World News in Brief: Sudan aid update, Kyrgyzstan death penalty, health crises in DRC, Haiti

·October 20, 2025·3 min read

The warning from the UN aid coordination office, OCHA, follows ongoing and repeated attacks on El Fasher, which is under siege by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. Ten days ago, the Darfuri city’s Daraja Oula neighbourhood was targeted in a drone strike, killing at least 57 civilians who’d been displaced...

Security Council renews Haiti sanctions

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·October 19, 2025·2 min read

The sanctions regime was established in 2022 and includes a travel ban, asset freeze and arms embargo. Panama and the United States drafted the resolution, which also renews the mandate of the panel of experts that supports the sanctions committee. It comes just weeks after the Council authorised a Gang...

Haiti is under a UN arms embargo: So why are 500,000 illegal weapons in circulation?

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·October 17, 2025·5 min read

Haiti is facing an acute security crisis as rival gangs fight for control of the capital, Port-au-Prince, and surrounding areas while terrorizing local communities through extortion, sexual violence, kidnap for ransom and murder. UN Member States agreed to impose an arms embargo on Haiti in 2022 – so what has...

Haiti: ‘Unprecedented’ number of children on the run

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·October 8, 2025·2 min read

An alarming 3.3 million children — the highest number on record — are now in need of humanitarian assistance and cases of acute malnutrition, child recruitment, gender-based violence and other children’s rights violations are on the rise. “Children in Haiti are being displaced at a distressing pace and scale,” said...

Haiti battles rabies with vaccines and vigilance

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·October 5, 2025·4 min read

Last July, in the remote locality of Butête, in southern Haiti, nine-year-old Jonas* lost his life to rabies. When a stray dog bit the boy on the leg, the wound seemed minor. Like many families living far from any health facilities, his mother was unaware that immediate care was critical....

Increasing violence and funding cuts imperil millions across Haiti

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·October 2, 2025·2 min read

Haiti faces one of the world’s most severe food crises that is only worsening due to steep funding cuts to WFP relief programmes. “We urge international partners to step up to enable WFP and partners to provide not only life-saving emergency assistance, but also to invest in programmes addressing the...

Security Council LIVE: Ambassadors authorise new Gang Suppression Force for Haiti

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·October 2, 2025·1 min read

The UN Security Council has backed a resolution authorising the transition of the Kenyan-led support mission for Haiti into a new Gang Suppression Force, in close cooperation with Haitian authorities. US Ambassador Michael Waltz said it offered new hope for the country’s future as “a key first step” to address the...

UN’s Guterres condemns gang attack in Haiti that killed at least 40

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·September 14, 2025·1 min read

The overnight assault on11 September is the latest in a string of brutal incidents and ongoing gang violence that have plagued the country since last year. In a statement issued by his spokesperson, Mr. Guterres expressed “heartfelt condolences” to the victims’ families and urged Haitian authorities to pursue justice....

Haiti: UN relief chief implores ‘we have to do better’ to support gang-ravaged nation

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·September 10, 2025·4 min read

“I’m ashamed on behalf of the world that we cannot find it in ourselves to be more compassionate, to be more kind, to recognise what people here are going through,” said Tom Fletcher, who heads the UN emergency relief agency, OCHA, during a visit to the Caribbean nation. “I listened...

World News in Brief: Afghanistan quake latest, sexual violence in Haiti, WHO medicines update, deadly floods in Pakistan

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·September 6, 2025·3 min read

The UN aid coordination office, OCHA, has released $10 million in response to the urgent need for food, water, shelter and other lifesaving provisions following this week’s devastating earthquakes and aftershocks in Afghanistan. “This is the latest crisis to expose the cost of shrinking resources on vital humanitarian work,” said...

‘The people of Haiti are in a perfect storm of suffering,’ warns UN chief

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·September 1, 2025·2 min read

Six million people are in need of humanitarian assistance, while 1.3 million people – half of them children – having been forced to flee their homes, he added. ‘Shamefully overlooked’ Haiti now ranks among the five hunger hotspots worldwide that are of “highest concern,” said the UN chief. Yet it...

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

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·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...