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Sudan war: Aid teams plead for access to thousands trapped in El Fasher

·November 14, 2025·3 min read

That ordeal reduced people to eating peanut shells and animal feed, UN human rights chief Volker Türk said on Friday, before condemning the reported mass killings of civilians, executions based on ethnicity and other atrocities, which are likely continuing. At the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Mr. Türk told Member...

Gaza: War has made children violent, sad and bereft

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·November 13, 2025·2 min read

Issuing a warning that the children’s sense of stability and security has been eroded as key everyday services have collapsed, humanitarians insist that young Gazans will need “sustained, long-term efforts to recover”. According to child safety partner assessments conducted in September, shared by the UN aid coordination office (OCHA), 93...

Sudan war: Women endure starvation, rape and bombs fleeing El Fasher

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·November 11, 2025·3 min read

“Women speaking to us from El Fasher, the heart of Sudan’s latest catastrophe, tell us that they’ve endured starvation…displacement, rape and bombardment,” Anna Mutavati, UN Women Regional Director for East and Southern Africa, told reporters in Geneva. “Pregnant women have given birth in the streets as the last remaining maternity...

World News in Brief: Ukraine war update, Philippines typhoon latest, demographic shift in Europe and Central Asia

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·November 11, 2025·2 min read

Between Friday and early morning Monday, at least 15 civilians were killed and over 70 were injured, according to OCHA. On Saturday night, missile and drone attacks affected 10 regions: Chernihiv, Dnipro, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kherson, Kirovohrad, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Poltava and Sumy. Matthias Schmale, the humanitarian coordinator for the country, condemned the attacks, saying “civilians and civilian objects are...

Famine declared in two Sudanese cities cut off by war, fragile gains elsewhere

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·November 5, 2025·2 min read

Although food security has begun to improve in areas where fighting has subsided, famine has taken hold in conflict-hit locations that have been cut off from aid or under siege, according to the latest UN-backed IPC food security analysis. Famine conditions have been confirmed in Darfur’s El Fasher and Kadugli, where “people have endured months...

Defending truth-tellers, from war zones to the digital frontline

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·November 2, 2025·2 min read

Marking Sunday’s International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists, the United Nations is calling for justice for those silenced, and protection for those still speaking truth to power – whether in conflict zones or in the online spaces where abuse is spreading fast. “Media professionals around the globe...

Giving birth in the shadow of Sudan’s war

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·October 26, 2025·3 min read

In the heart of Sudan’s White Nile State, to the south of the country’s capital, Khartoum, Kosti Maternity Hospital handles thousands of deliveries a year, but the ongoing war, the destruction of regional infrastructure and the displacement millions of people, many of them women, has put huge strain on its...

Father of Gaza hostage calls for an end to war – and a two-State solution

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·October 8, 2025·2 min read

On 7 October 2023, Corporal Nimrod Cohen was guarding the area near the Nirim kibbutz close to Gaza frontier, when his tank malfunctioned and his unit was overrun by armed militants. Nimrod was the only one taken alive, and his father has received credible reports – including from some of...

Two years of Gaza-Israel war bring ‘indescribable’ pain, warn aid agencies

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·October 7, 2025·3 min read

“The pain is indescribable” on the anniversary of the “abhorrent” attacks, said UN relief chief Tom Fletcher. “I renew my call for the unconditional, immediate release of all the hostages – and until then, they must be treated humanely,” he continued. “Civilians everywhere have to be protected.” Mr. Fletcher underscored the...

Ukraine: ‘This war needs to end,’ Türk tells UN Human Rights Council

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·October 4, 2025·3 min read

The full-scale Russian invasion of the country began in February 2022 and “this year has seen intense attacks along the frontline, and massive airstrikes, largely in populated areas,” he told the Human Rights Council in Geneva. “In some towns in frontline communities, nearly all the housing has been damaged or...

Sudan war: Life-saving cholera vaccination campaign begins in Darfur

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·September 23, 2025·2 min read

The World Health Organization (WHO)’s Deputy Representative to the country Hala Khudari reported on Tuesday that the outbreak, which started in July 2024 in Kassala, has spread to all 18 states of the country. More than 113,600 cases have been registered so far and over 3,000 deaths – a “concerning...

SECURITY COUNCIL LIVE: Take ‘immediate steps’ to de-escalate tensions over Russia-Ukraine war, urges Jenča

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·September 23, 2025·1 min read

The Security Council met in New York in emergency session on Monday after planes from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) intercepted three Russia jets in Estonian airspace last Friday, according to the Estonian Government. Referencing the intensifying attacks by Russia on Ukraine and reported casualties inside Russia, “the world...