Record hunger in Haiti amid rising needs
The UN agency is sounding the alarm following the release of the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report, which uses…
External flow of weapons into Sudan must end, insists UN’s Guterres
And amid spiralling violence and the massacre of civilians linked to advancing opposition forces in the Darfurs at the weekend, the UN…
Rise in violence against civilians in South Sudan
The finding comes in its latest brief on violence against civilians, which also reveals a similar rise in incidents of conflict-related sexual…
World News in Brief: Relief supplies for Myanmar, invest in Haiti, child migrant deaths in Italy
The flight was chartered by the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, and delivered tents and household items for some 16,000 people. Myanmar continues…
Humanitarian situation continues to deteriorate in El Fasher, Sudan
The war between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and former ally the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) is in its third year and…
South Sudan on the brink as peace deal falters, UN warns
Nicholas Haysom, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for South Sudan, warned that a political standoff between President Salva Kiir and former…
Gaza faces deepening crisis as aid stocks dwindle
More than 500,000 people are reported to have been newly displaced since 18 March, many of them uprooted multiple times due to…
Thousands of Gaza patients waiting for urgent medical evacuation
On Monday, World Health Organisation (WHO) Representative Rik Peeperkorn told UN News about the desperate conditions he had seen at Al-Ahli before…
Sudan war: ‘Darkest chapters’ ahead as Darfur massacre claims over 100 lives
The latest attacks, which began on 11 April, saw Rapid Support Forces (RSF)-affiliated forces launch coordinated assaults on Zamzam and Abu Shouk…
UN forum tackles slavery reparations for Africa, people of African descent
They urged greater collaboration between governments, civil society and regional organizations to create a system that would compensate Africa and the African…