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Antibiotic resistance surges globally, UN health agency warns

·October 13, 2025·2 min read

According to the agency’s latest surveillance report, antibiotic resistance rose in more than 40 per cent of the bacteria-drug combinations tracked between 2018 and 2023, with average annual increases ranging from 5 to 15 per cent. “Antimicrobial resistance is outpacing advances in modern medicine, threatening the health of families worldwide,”...

Thousands flee amid renewed fighting in northern Mozambique, UN warns

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·October 8, 2025·2 min read

The surge in displacement in late September marks a turning point in the conflict – now entering its eighth year – with more than 100,000 people already uprooted during 2025. The violence in Cabo Delgado began in 2017, led by armed groups locally known as al-Shabaab – unrelated to the...

Women’s leadership role in peace and security issues ‘going in reverse’, UN chief warns

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·October 7, 2025·2 min read

Members met for their annual open debate on the women, peace and security agenda just ahead of the 25th anniversary of the Council’s landmark resolution 1325 (2000) on the issue. As the Secretary-General noted, the resolution “gave voice to a simple truth: women’s leadership is central to just and lasting...

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...

Fewer than one in 10 Somalis to receive life-saving aid in November, warns WFP

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·October 3, 2025·1 min read

“We are seeing a dangerous rise in emergency levels of hunger, and our ability to respond is shrinking by the day,” said Ross Smith, WFP director of emergencies.  “Without urgent funding, families already pushed to the edge will be left with nothing at a time when they need it most.”...

‘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 warns time running out for families with terrorist ties stranded in Syria camps

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·September 27, 2025·3 min read

This urgent humanitarian and security situation threatens stability in the region and beyond, but the political transition underway in Syria could provide an opportunity to step up repatriations. The issue was the subject of a high-level international conference organized by the Government of Iraq with technical support from the UN...

Pakistan’s Prime Minister warns of regional tensions, calls for ceasefire in Gaza

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·September 27, 2025·2 min read

“Our world is more complex today than ever before,” Mr. Sharif said, citing intensifying conflicts, violations of international law, and a climate crisis that “threatens our very survival.” Multilateralism, he argued, was “no more an option – it is need of the hour.” Prime Minister Sharif said that his country...

Afghanistan quake: Rescuers dodge dangers, women and girls face disaster, warns UN

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·September 20, 2025·2 min read

“While the major aftershocks have passed, or have mostly passed, women in affected areas are facing a long-term disaster without more urgent assistance,” said Susan Ferguson, UN Women Special Representative in Afghanistan. One woman rescuer supported by the UN agency described “scrambling” along the sides of mountains, “dodging falling rocks...

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 warns of escalation risk after large-scale Russian drone incursion into Poland

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·September 13, 2025·1 min read

She said it was not the first time drones had been spotted beyond Ukraine’s borders “but it is the first time that multiple drones have flown so deep into a neighbouring country’s airspace.” Ms. DiCarlo said the UN had no way of verifying any claims or counter-claims surrounding the incident...

Israeli strike in Doha marks ‘alarming escalation’, warns top UN official, in call to uphold diplomatic norms

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·September 11, 2025·2 min read

Rosemary DiCarlo described Tuesday’s strike in a residential area of the Qatari capital – which targeted Hamas’s political leadership killing several affiliates along with a Qatari security officer – as potentially opening a “new and perilous chapter in this devastating conflict, seriously threatening regional peace and stability.” The attack occurred...