DR Congo: UN call to reopen Goma airport ‘lifeline’, as crisis deepens
“Goma airport is a lifeline,” said Bruno Lemarquis. “Without it, the evacuation of the seriously injured, the delivery of medical supplies and the reception...
Sudan: UN chief condemns reported executions as starvation risks rise
Many of the victims are believed to be from the Darfur and Kordofan regions.“The Secretary-General reminds all warring parties in Sudan of their obligations...
Haiti: ‘I was deported to a country I never lived in’
MireillePregnant and exhausted and clutching a small bag with all that was left of her belongings, Mireille* stood under the relentless Haitian sun, not...
Sudan: UN rights chief ‘alarmed’ by summary executions, attacks on civilians
Government forces and a rival military – the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) – have been battling for control of the country since April 2023...
Syria: Hostilities and aid challenges persist across devastated country
In an update, the UN aid coordination office, OCHA, said that more than 25,000 people have been newly uprooted from the northeastern city of Manbij, where...
DR Congo emergency: next 24 hours are critical, warn UN agencies
Dead bodies lie in the streets, hospitals are overwhelmed and there has been an uptick in reports of sexual violence, rape and looting.“Roads are...
DR Congo: Battle for Goma continues as ‘volatile’ crisis unfolds
In a briefing on Monday, Mr. Lacroix told journalists in New York that some staff from the UN’s Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic...
Guterres calls on US to exempt development and humanitarian funds from aid ‘pause’
President Trump’s executive order a week ago called for all foreign aid to be re-evaluated to ensure that it complies which his new foreign...
Human rights expert welcomes clemency for Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier
The Executive Grant of Clemency, signed on Sunday just hours before Mr. Biden left office, commutes Mr. Peltier’s life sentences to home confinement, allowing...
DR Congo emergency: Fears that regional capital Goma faces attack
“We are deeply alarmed at the heightened risk of an attack by the M23 armed group on Goma, the capital of North Kivu, in...
‘We must be there for them now’ says UN relief chief, highlighting plight of...
"Today marks one of the rare times we are able to highlight positive developments, albeit amid catastrophic humanitarian needs in Gaza," Mr. Fletcher began.
He...
Afghanistan: ICC seeks arrest warrants for Taliban leaders over gender-based persecution
On Thursday, ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan applied for arrest warrants for two senior Taliban officials: Supreme Leader Haibatullah Akhundzada and Supreme Court Chief Justice...
UN rights expert calls for end to Russia’s crackdown on lawyers
Mariana Katzarova, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Russian Federation, urged Russian authorities to release lawyers Vadim Kobzev, Alexei Liptser...
World News in Brief: Sudan famine latest, weekend attacks in Ukraine, Tanzania Marburg virus...
In an alert on Monday, the World Food Programme (WFP) said that the trucks will be the first from the UN agency to reach...
Stories from the UN Archive: Roots of ‘no justice, no peace’
Read our story here:When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife, Coretta Scott King, visited UN Headquarters in the 1960s to protest the...
Dignity for migrants should be our guiding light, insists ‘Cabrini’ film star
“Being from southern Italy, the migration issue is very close to my heart. Southern Italians have always emigrated throughout history, especially during the Second...
In Lebanon, Guterres highlights challenges and support for peacekeepers
His itinerary included a trip to Naqoura in the south – where the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) is headquartered – and he...
Relentless crisis in Haiti: One in eight children internally displaced
The latest data reveals that over 500,000 children have been forced from their homes – a shocking 48 per cent increase since September.In total,...
Sudan war becomes more deadly as ethnically motivated attacks rise
His warning comes in the wake of reports that dozens were brutally killed in ethnically targeted attacks in Al Jazirah state in the southeast,...
Gaza ceasefire could boost aid deliveries to 600 trucks per day: WHO
“The target is to get between 500 and 600 trucks in per day over the coming weeks,” said Dr Rik Peeperkorn, WHO representative in...
World News in Brief: Security Council Libya resolution, cyclone recovery in Mozambique, Marburg virus...
The resolution authored by the United Kingdom was passed by 14 votes with none against – permanent Council member Russia abstained.It introduces new provisions...
UN stands with Ukrainians for the long-term, insists UN aid chief
In a joint appeal from Kyiv, the UN’s emergency relief chief Tom Fletcher and Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, said that millions of civilians...
A decade of conflict: ‘Almost 40 million Yemenis have waited far too long’
Special Envoy Hans Grundberg highlighted the alarming trend of escalation provoked by Yemen’s Houthi forces who began attacking international shipping in the Red Sea...
Iran: UN experts alarmed as Supreme Court upholds death sentence of Kurdish woman activist
“The charges against Ms. Pakhshan Azizi do not meet the threshold of ‘most serious crimes’ required by international law for the death penalty,” the...
