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Central Africa at a crossroads amid rising tensions and instability

·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...

UN Security Council extends South Sudan mission amid rising instability

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·May 9, 2025·2 min read

Introduced by the United States and supported by 11 other Council members, the resolution extended the mandate of UNMISS until 30 April next year. This action follows a short nine-day “technical rollover” approved by the Council on 30 April to allow more time for negotiations. Through the text – adopted...

Record hunger in Haiti amid rising needs

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·April 19, 2025·2 min read

The UN agency is sounding the alarm following the release of the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report, which uses a scale from 1 to 5 to assess conditions. It reveals that more than half the Haitian population, a record 5.7 million people, are projected to experience acute...

Climate change: La Niña fades, as global heat keeps rising

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·March 7, 2025·1 min read

La Niña, a natural climate phenomenon, results in cooler Pacific Ocean temperatures and influences weather conditions worldwide. The latest forecasts from WMO indicate sea surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific are expected to return to normal. The agency says that there is a 60 per cent chance conditions will...

World News in Brief: Gaza medical challenge, justice for Africa, rising violence in Myanmar

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·December 16, 2024·4 min read

The situation is especially dire in North Gaza governorate, which has been under siege for more than two months, UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said during his daily briefing from New York. Access to basic services has also been severely constrained, he added, noting that the UN agency that assists Palestine...

World News in Brief: Sudan’s refugee crisis, UNRWA Gaza update, violence rising in South Sudan, call to halt latest US executions

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·October 17, 2024·4 min read

In the first week of October alone, close to 25,000 people fled to eastern Chad, marking the highest weekly influx this year. This follows months of intensifying violence in Darfur, and Chad now hosts over 600,000 Sudanese refugees, which is more than any other country in the region. Since the conflict...

Gaza: UN chief condemns rising civilian casualties in the north

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·October 15, 2024·2 min read

Israeli forces struck tents sheltering displaced civilians near al Aqsa hospital, in an area where people from northern Gaza were told to relocate. At least four people were burned to death, and scores of others, including women and children, suffered severe burns. Just hours earlier, another strike on a school...

UNAIDS: Rising debt in sub-Saharan Africa costing lives

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·September 19, 2024·2 min read

The report details how this debt crisis is jeopardising progress aimed at ending AIDS in Sub-Saharan African countries, which account for a significant majority of people living with HIV globally – 25.9 million people of the nearly 40 million total. If debt payments and stifled budgets are unaddressed in the...

UPDATED: Injured patients ‘waiting to die’ in northern Gaza as last hospital shuts down, amid rising ‘catastrophic’ hunger levels

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·December 21, 2023·5 min read

The latest grave assessment from the World Health Organization (WHO) came after UN teams reached Al Ahli Arab hospital and Al Shifa hospital on Wednesday, amid reports of intensifying ground operations by Israeli Defense Forces and continuing airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, in response to Hamas’s 7 October terror attacks...

Israel-Palestine crisis: Gaza’s north cut off from aid; death toll rising

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·November 2, 2023·4 min read

According to the Hamas-run Ministry of Health, 8,805 Palestinians have been killed since 7 October, including at least 3,648 children and 2,187 women, and some 22,240 have been injured, UN humanitarian coordination affairs office OCHA said. Strikes on Jabalia Refugee Camp OCHA stressed that as Israeli ground operations and bombardments...

Haiti: UN envoy upholds critical role of elections amid rising gang violence

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·October 24, 2023·4 min read

“Elections are the only path and the only imperative to restore democratic institutions in Haiti. Only democracy and the rule of law can form the basis from which Haiti can progress towards development and growth,” she said. The envoy, who also heads the UN Office in Haiti, BINUH, underlined the...

Israel-Palestine: Rising death and displacement, including among UN staff

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·October 11, 2023·2 min read

OCHA cited Israeli media, which reported that as of Tuesday evening, more than 1,000 Israelis, including foreign nationals, were killed and at least 2,806 people were injured, according to the Ministry of Health. The Ministry of Health in Gaza said at least 830 Palestinians have been killed and 4,250 injured....