UN News Today 10 February 2025 |
Gaza crisis: Amid winter storms, humanitarians appeal for full aid accessThree weeks since the ceasefire began between Hamas and Israel, the UN Children’s Fund...
After years of conflict, Timor-Leste turns peacemaker
Timor-Leste’s road to peace has not been easy. In 1976, not long after Indonesia became independent it invaded the eastern part of the island...
DR Congo crisis: Thousands flee clashes in South Kivu
Escalating fighting between M23 rebels and Congolese troops has caused thousands of people to flee, with many heading towards the provincial capital, Bukavu –...
Global forum suggests fresh ideas for 21st century UN peacekeeping
“Our thinking should be grounded by the fact that we have more conflicts today than at any time since World War Two and by...
UN News Today 07 February 2025 |
DR Congo crisis must be stopped, warns UN rights chiefUN human rights chief Volker Türk on Friday expressed profound concern over the ongoing violent...
First Person: Bodies of children in Haiti have turned into ‘battlegrounds’
The agency’s spokesperson James Elder has just visited Port-au-Prince, the capital of the embattled Caribbean nation and has been speaking about what he experienced...
General Assembly President prioritizes overhaul as UN turns 80
UN reform is one of the top priorities for Philémon Yang, elected President of the General Assembly during the UN’s eightieth year. In an...
DR Congo: Rights chief warns crisis could worsen, without international action
Since 26 January, nearly 3,000 people have been killed and 2,880 injured in attacks by the M23 and their allies “with heavy weapons used...
‘She had a syringe, razor blade, and bandages’: Surviving genital mutilation
Zeinaba Mahr Aouad, a 24-year-old woman from Djibouti, remembers the day when, as a ten-year-old, an unexpected visitor came to her house: “She had...
It’s official: January was the warmest on record
Last month was 1.75 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial level and 0.79°C above the 1991-2020 average, despite expectations that the La Nina weather phenomenon...
Sudan: Top aid official warns against escalating violence in two states
Clementine Nkweta-Salami said the latest outbreak of hostilities in Kadugli, South Kordofan, has reportedly claimed at least 80 civilian lives and left scores more...
UN News Today 06 February 2025 |
It’s official: January was the warmest on recordThe world has just experienced the hottest January ever recorded, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on...
‘The new generation is different’: In Djibouti, activists lobby to end female genital mutilation
“I’m afraid of men, of everyone, of everything,” she told the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency (UNFPA).FGM, a practice that involves altering...
World News in Brief: US executive orders continue, killings in Sudan, breast cancer alert...
According to President Trump’s latest directive from the White House on Tuesday on international cooperation, the US will no longer participate in or financially...
DR Congo: UN mission offers protection to ‘vulnerable populations’, despite huge challenges
Vivian van de Perre, briefed from the ground in Goma, the regional capital, telling journalists that “the situation is still highly volatile, with persistent...
Explainer: How family planning saves lives
“I will never allow my daughter to go through what happened to me,” she told UNFPA, the UN sexual and reproductive health agency.What happens...
UN News Today 5 February 2025 |
US: New executive order set to impact work of the UNNew executive orders issued by the White House are set to further impact the...
Gaza: More than a million receive food aid since the start of the ceasefire
The temporary agreement to stop the fighting and release hostages brought an end to some 15 months of conflict and destruction in the Strip,...
What the UN is doing in DR Congo
Despite security challenges, UN agencies and peacekeepers have pledged to stay and deliver amid rising deaths and injuries alongside an alarming spread of highly contagious mpox...
World News in Brief: ‘Ruthless assault on human life’ in Sudan, Gaza ceasefire must...
Clementine Nkweta-Salami issued a statement on Tuesday lamenting the “relentless” intensifying shelling, air and drone strikes against civilians in the Darfur and Kordofan regions,...
Why have UN peacekeepers been in DR Congo for 65 years?
DRC gained independence in 1960 and since then the UN has played a crucial role in the country, notably through the deployment of three...
UN News Today 4 February 2025 |
UNRWA updates on Jenin camp detonations, ongoing aid efforts in GazaLarge areas of the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank have been...
US funding pause leaves millions ‘in jeopardy’, insist UN humanitarians
The development follows the pause announced to billions of dollars of funding on 24 January by the US administration affecting “nearly all US foreign...
‘Grieving and crying’ as people on either side of Gaza conflict come together
Given the brutality of the recent conflict in Gaza between Hamas and Israel, it has become increasingly difficult to imagine a durable peace. Yet,...
