Monday’s attack left 40 people dead and 19 injured in Abu ShoukAccording to humanitarian partners. The International Migration Organization (Iom) said that renewed violence had forced at least 500 inhabitants of the camp to flee from other parts in the north of Darfur.

The acting humanitarian coordinator of Sudan, Sheldon Yett, condemned “all deliberate and blind attacks against civilians” in the strongest terms.

“” All parties to the conflict have a clear obligation under international humanitarian law to ensure the protection of civiliansStéphane Dujarric, UN spokesperson, said in New York’s daily newspaper on Tuesday.

“Travel and other refuge camps for civilians should not be targeted. And The fact that we have to repeat this almost every day is tragic in itself. “”

Out of way

In the middle of the current climbing of violence in and around El Fasher – the last government held Bastion in Darfur – there are also reports that the city’s exit roads have been blocked and civilians are trapped under siege, cut off from security and aid.

Mr. Yett pointed out that the immediate supply of a safe and unhindered passage for those fleeing El Fasher and other areas of active hostilities are crucial.

He also reiterated the secretary general’s repeated calls for a humanitarian break in and around the city to allow the essential delivery of food, water, medicine and other rescue supplies, stressing that trapped people are confronted with hunger and acute famine.

Deepening of the disaster in Kordofan

In the east of the Kordofan region, violence and travel are still raging.

In the state of southern Kordofan, the IOM estimates that 3,000 people fled the city of Kadugli between August 6 and 10 due to the deepening of insecurity.

Humanitarian access to the city is extremely limited, as the main supply route is inaccessible due to active hostilities, which makes road access practically nonexistent.

This humanitarian crisis aggravates an already disastrous economic situation and causes new shortages of vital goods.

The UN humanitians reiterate that all combatants have obligations under international humanitarian law to refrain from attacking civilians, taking constant care to save them and facilitate unhindered humanitarian access to all needs.

Yemen continues to be one of the countries most inserted by food in the world after more than 12 years of war between the coalition supported by Saoudie supporting the government internationally recognized and Ansar Allah – as the rebels are officially known – with 17 million hunger, according to the UN coordination office, Ochha.

Despite a fragile but durable ceasefire, regional disorders continue to erode the prospects of peace and stability. Without a political solution, “the current cycles of violence – local and regional – as well as the economic devolution and the endemic humanitarian needs will persist”, Rameh Rajasteringham, Director of the OCHA Coordination Divisiontold ambassadors.

However, it is not only possible for a lasting peace agreement: “reaching a lasting solution to the situation in Yemen is not only possible, it is essential”, declared Special Envoy Grundberg.

Regarding developments

Although the first lines have barely changed, July saw the Houthi fortify their positions, including around the city of Hudaydah, and launching a significant assault against government forces in the governorate of Sa’adah – the developments said that Mr. Grundberg declared to the Security advice were “concern”.

Since October 2023, the Houthis have been targeting Israel as well as commercial ships of the Red Sea, in solidarity with the Palestinian cause in Gaza.

During the last month, the Houthis continued missile exchanges with Israel, further destabilizing Yemen and trade in the region.

“” For Yemen to have a real chance of peace, it must be protected against being attracted to the current regional disorders emanating from the war in Gaza“Said Mr. Grundberg, calling and ending the Houthi strikes against civilian ships in the Red Sea.

In the conflict at home, “the parties must take measures that strengthen trust and good faith,” he said, because the UN aims to establish a path for new talks.

“Unfortunately, we have seen the opposite in the last month with unilateral and sales board decisions that risk deepening divisions within state institutions and structures,” said Grundberg.

Food insecurity

In some parts of Yemen, hunger and malnutrition are extreme – especially in travel areas. In July, a mission of needs revealed that the children of displaced families dying in famine in such a camp in the ABS district of the Hajjah governorate.

“” These are children who died not war injuries, but hunger – slow, silent and avoidable“Said Mr. Rajasingham.

Half of Yemen under the age of five suffer from acute malnutrition, and almost half a global growth delay, leaving them much more vulnerable to the death of current diseases.

Where health care is desperately inadequate and support services are not available for many, “It is a bet of life or death for children“He said.

Rajasingham called for an increase in funding to increase support for food and nutrition across the country, as humanitarian organizations remain in the field, despite limited resources and operational challenges.

Way to go

Meanwhile, the Yemen Special Envoy Office continues to work on de -escalation along the fronts.

In order to establish a path for conferences, “It is essential that measures that strengthen trust and improve the daily life of Yemenis continue“Said Mr. Grundberg.

“I urge the dialogue between the parties, which is the only way to cause long-term lasting solutions on all questions,” he said.

“I condemn the murder of journalists Anas Al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal, Moamin Aliwa and Mohammed al-Khaldi and call for an in-depth and transparent investigation”, ” UnescoDirector General Audrey Azoulay said in a statement Tuesday.

Five of the six worked for the media organization of influential Qatari, Al Jazeera: Anas Al-Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqeh were on air correspondents, while Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamin Aliwa worked as cameras operators. Mohammed al-Khaldi was an independent photojournalist.

They were reportedly killed by an Israeli attack on a tent used by media staff at the entrance to the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City.

Flagrant and premeditated attack

Israeli defense forces (FDI) alleged that the 28-year-old correspondent Anas Al-Sharif was a Hamas agent in service. Al Jazeera denies this firmly, describing the attack as an “assassination” and “yet another flagrant and premeditated attack against press freedom”.

The UN Human Rights Council-The independent experts named freedom of expression published a statement On July 31, denouncing the “repeated threats” of an Israeli spokesperson and “unfounded accusations” against Mr. Anas Al-Sharif, signaling it as “a blatant attempt to put his life in danger and to silence her report” in Gaza.

Condemn the attack Tuesday, in the strongest terms, two special rapporteurs described murders as “an attempt to silently make reports on the genocide and famine campaign in progress” in Gaza.

“It is scandalous that the Israeli army first dares to launch a campaign to dirty Anas Al-Sharif as Hamas in order to discredit his reports, then kill him as well as his colleagues for having told the truth to the world,” said the experts, demanding an immediate investigation into murders and full access to international media, which is currently doing an immediate investigation.

Special rapporteurs and other independent experts are appointed and meet regularly at the Human Rights Council. They work in their individual quality, are not UN staff and receive no payment for their work.

Violation of international law

UNESCO chief, Ms. Azoulay, stressed that the targeting of journalists reporting on conflicts is unacceptable and violates international law.

She also reiterated her call to respect United Nations Security Council resolution 2222which was adopted unanimously in 2015 to protect journalists, media professionals and associated staff in conflict situations.

Since October 2023, UNESCO has reported at least 62 journalists and media workers killed in the exercise of its functions in Palestine, excluding deaths in the circumstances unrelated to their work, while Ohchr Reports that at least 242 Palestinian journalists were killed in the same time.

This warning comes from the United Nations World Food Program (Wfp) In A tweet Published Tuesday, requesting that more aid be authorized in the enclave by the Israeli authorities.

The Gaza Ministry of Health has reported that Five people have died in recent 24 hours due to malnutrition and famineThe United Nations Office for Humanitarian Affairs Coordination (Ochha)) said in its last update.

This bears the total number of deaths related to malnutrition to 227, including 103 children, since October 2023.

Still not enough help

Humanitarians continue to denounce the low level of supplies entering Gaza, which remains a fraction of what is necessary to meet the immense needs of around 2.1 million people who live there.

A third of the population does not eat for days, and half a million are on the verge of famine, WFP said.

The agency calls at least 100 trucks per day to be authorized in Gaza, much faster approvals and authorizations, and without armed presence or shooting near humanitarian convoys and food distribution sites, among other measures.

Humanitarian missions face obstructions

Although the UN and the partners continue to do everything possible to provide assistance, humanitarian movements are always faced with significant delays and other challenges.

UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric described the situation of journalists who attend the regular media conference at the New York seat.

He said on Monday that the humanitarian workers officially asked Israel to coordinate 16 missions – including the collection of food, medical supplies and fuel – of Kerem Shalom and border crossings of Zikim, the only two operating aid corridors.

Other missions involved goods and moving staff in Gaza, from south to north and in the southern part of the band.

“Precious time” wasted

“” Of the 16 missions, four were facilitated and three were refused; Four others were hampered but were finally fully accomplished“He said.

Among the remaining missions, two were canceled by the respective organizations and two others which involved the collection of food and health supplies of Kerem Shalom Crossing were hampered and unable to be finished. Another mission was hampered but was still underway.

“Efforts to coordinate humanitarian movements often drag for hours due to unpredictable authorizations from the Israeli authorities, keeping precious time,” he added.

West Bank disorders

Ocha has also updated the situation in occupied West Bank, where another Palestinian Bedouin community was moved on Monday due to violence by Israeli forces and colonists.

Israeli forces have made a descent into the Ein Ayoub community in the governorate of Ramallah and ordered the immediate expulsion of its hundreds of Palestinian residents.

Many of these people have no other shelter, said OCHA.

“I often think that I can’t even find words anymore to describe the situation. Is it alarming, is it sharp, is it urgent? That’s all and even more. “”

The sentence on which she finally settled was “surprisingly horrible”.

Haiti is currently faced with an prolonged and aggravated humanitarian crisis-the violence of the gangs extending beyond the capital of Port-au-Prince, civilians are more and more landing the weight of this terror. In addition, Haiti is one of the five countries in the world in the process of living in famine conditions.

Eassenger crisis response

In the midst of this horror, Haiti’s humanitarian plan is only nine percent financeThis makes it the least funded humanitarian response plan in the world according to Ms. Richardson.

But despite these difficult and prolonged circumstances, Ms. Richardson also wanted to emphasize that political will and funding could guarantee that the current crisis should not be the future of Haiti.

“” Haiti’s fate does not need to be misery and despair“She said.” Haiti died in a negative [way]Haiti can quickly slide upwards.

Beyond the figures

More than 1.3 million people were moved to Haiti following violence – the greatest number of the history of Haiti – and almost half of the country suffers from emergency food insecurity.

These figures have become so large that it can be difficult to conceive of the real human impact behind them.

“All of this is just figures. Beyond each figure, there is a mother, a child, a father, a young“She said.

Sometimes these figures also obscure certain livelihoods. For example, the number of 1.3 million moved obscured those who are left behind, perhaps because they could not physically flee while violence has empiety in their neighborhood.

Richardson said she had heard many stories like this.

“This might be people in a wheelchair or an elderly parent whom they just have to leave behind. They cannot move with them. ”

Ask yourself, what can you do more?

Ms. Richardson said there was a lot about Haiti’s current situation that she finds frustrating – more precisely the fact that the international community identified the solutions to mitigate, if not completely, the crisis.

“We have tools, but The response of the international community is not tied with gravity in the field“She said.

For example, the Multinational Security Support Mission (MSS) has half of the staff and very little of the equipment he needs to fulfill his mandate.

In addition, while sanctions against political leaders with gang ties are slowly settled, they are insufficient. Likewise, the international community is not enough to stop the flow of firearms.

“These tools must receive appropriate support and investment in order to achieve their full mandate. There must be a way to stop weapons in Haiti“Said Ms. Richardson.

Calling states to wonder what they can do more to put an end to the humanitarian crisis, Ms. Richardson said that the world had to perform several tasks.

‘A divided heart’

Ms. Richardson will take a new position in Libya on September 1, and while she is preparing to leave her years of work in Haiti, she told journalists that she had a divided heart.

On the one hand, it is a humanitarian crisis of “striking” proportions that the world seems to have forgotten. But. If the international community could adopt solutions before them, the crisis could end.

Haiti can turn the page

“” We cannot do what we do if we are not optimistic. Of course, we believe that there are solutions. Of course, we believe that the future is brighter than the present. »»

Ms. Richardson said that this optimism comes in part from the “honorable and brilliant” past of Haiti and the resistance it has seen on the ground.

“Each condition is there to turn the page … Haitians are extremely ready for this, so that the country has a more positive echo in the international community.”

Eleonora Servino was on the first UN help convoy to Uwaida, who saw a recent climbing of violence that left many dead and thousands of displaced people.

As an international organization for migration (Iom) The head of the mission in Syria, Ms. Verno said that the difference on the Bosra road is austere.

“Do you know this feeling when you visit somewhere as a tourist, how did the memories integrate into your mind?” Happy and peaceful places filled with amazing views, delicious food, warm smiles and a relaxed atmosphere. This is how I remember Bosra, Syria, 20 years ago.

Rival of ancient Italian relics

I went to see her old Roman theater, a [UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization] Unesco World Heritage Site. I remember the masonry perfectly preserved in the tunnels leading to the stage, the complex sculptures.

Everything rivaled, even outdated, the monuments of my native Italy. I felt at home, with a shared story.

Recently, I came back for very different reasons.

Tourists have long left

Syria has endured 14 years of brutal civil war, moving millions. Tourists have left for a long time. But now, with war and stability that comes up slowly, people come back. My organization, OIM, has just been officially authorized to resume operations. One of my first acts as head of the interim advertising mission was to hit the road to Bosra.

It is the only way to the governorate of AS-Sweida, which recently experienced weeks of violence, leaving many deaths and more than 168,000 displaced.

I was part of the first United Nations assessment mission. With the support of Ochha [UN humanitarian agency] And the Syrian Arabian Red Crescent, the convoy provided 40 trucks of aid from various agencies and organizations.

“Signs of violence everywhere”

Signs of violence were everywhere. The streets were strangely silent in Sweida. No traffic. None of the bustle you expect in a city that once had more than 70,000 inhabitants.

Built -in buildings, shipwrecked cars and a feeling of omnipresent tension dominated the landscape.

We have visited three areas where internally displaced people have found a shelter, either in host communities or in municipal centers. People have opened their homes to those forced to flee. However, the lack of electricity, water and the main road blocked contracts for resources, which makes it more difficult despite the good will and the humanitarian spirit of ordinary citizens.

“People are always in shock”

The need for humanitarian assistance is clear, from what we have seen and what we have heard. People are always in shock. We talked to people who have lost so much: houses, families, goods, livelihoods.

Our DTM teams (monitoring of the matrix) are on the ground by conducting regular surveys. The needs are basic but essential: food, species, hygiene articles, clothes, cooking sets, fuel and shelter.

We are an essential element of the humanitarian community, pleading and supporting those moved by the conflict. We will continue to work to keep access open and improve it, guaranteeing people what they need. »»

In his Annual report Released on Tuesday, the Independent investigation mechanism for myanmar (IIMM) said that it had made “significant progress” documenting crimes and identifying managers, including security forces supervising detention facilities.

Myanmar went down to the civil war after February 2021 military coup And the detention of civilian leaders, including President Win Myint and the State Councilor Aung San Suu Kyi. The takeover triggered mass manifestations, a violent repression against dissent and an armed resistance movement at the national level.

“Significant evidence”

Detailed crimes in Tuesday report include burning of sexual body parts, other forms of sexual violence and summary executions of captured combatants or civilians accused of being informants.

“” We have discovered significant evidence, in particular testimonies of eyewitnesses, showing systematic torture in the myanmar detention facilities, »» said Nicholas Koumjian, chief of the mechanism.

“” We have progressed in the identification of the authors, including the commanders who oversee these facilities and we are ready to support all the courts arranged and capable of pursuing these crimes.“”

Order responsibility

The report covers the period from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2025 and relies on more than 1,300 sources, including nearly 600 testimonials from eyewitnesses, photographs, videos, documents, cards and forensic evidence.

It also details an intensification of surveys on air attacks against schools, houses and hospitals – including incidents in the days following the earthquake of March 2025When rescue operations were still in progress.

The UN Human Rights Council-The researchers recorded analyze the composition of the air army of Myanmar and its chain of command to identify those responsible for these strikes.

New surveys have also been opened on the atrocities of the state of Rakhine, where the soldiers and the ethnic armed group Arakan Army are fighting for control, alongside current probes on crimes committed against the Rohingyas in 2016 and 2017.

International responsibility

The evidence collected by the investigators have already supported the procedures before the International Criminal Court (ICC), the International Court of Justice (Icj) and in Argentina.

He contributed to the CPI prosecutor in November 2024 Request for an arrest warrant For Min Aung Hlaing, the military leader of Myanmar and the Argentine Federal Court in February 2025 guaranteed against him and 24 others.

“” Our report highlights a continuous increase in the frequency and brutality of the atrocities committed in Myanmar,“Said Mr. Koumjian.

“We work towards the day the authors must respond to their actions in court.”

Spiral crisis

The fighting between the military, the pro-democracy forces and the ethnic armed groups have moved millions and pushed the country into deep political, economic and humanitarian troubles.

The country also faces the long -standing consequences of military operations of 2017 against the Muslim minority Rohingya in the state of Rakhine.

These campaigns – described by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, as “an example of an ethnic cleaning manual” – have forced hundreds of thousands of rohingya to flee through the border of Bangladesh, where most remain in congested refugee camps.

Multiple pressures

Investigators warn that their work is compromised by the UN liquidity crisis, which reduced the mechanism budget in 2025 to only 73% of the approved amount and will require a 20% reduction in regular staff funded by the budget in 2026.

To identify resource constraints and operational challenges – including the lack of direct access to Myanmar witnesses, security risks and cybersecurity threats – the investigation team has adopted a three -year strategic plan, focusing on strengthening operational resilience and capacity improvement.