Between January 1 and May 30, at least 2,680 people – including 54 children – were killed, 957 injured, 316 kidnapped for ransom and many others subject to sexual violence and recruitment of children’s gangs.

“Also alarming, the figures cannot express the horrors that Haitians are forced to support daily,” said Türk.

Conflicts on all sides

In recent months, the gangs have attacked Mirebalais in the center of the country, looting police stations, destroying property and releasing more than 500 prisoners from the local prison.

Meanwhile, so-called self-defense groups have targeted individuals they suspect from affiliation of gangs. On May 20, at least 25 people were killed and 10 injured by a group accusing them of supporting gangs.

The police increased operations against them. Since January, the police have killed at least 1,448 people, including 65 during extrajudicial executions.

Mr. Türk called on the international community to take decisive measures to put an end to violence, including renewed support for the Security advice-Mut of the multinational security support (MSS) and the complete application of the boarding board of the Council.

He also reiterated his appeal to States not to refer anyone in Haiti.

“The coming months will be crucial and will test the capacity of the international community to take stronger and more coordinated measures – an action that will help determine the future stability of Haiti and the region in the broad sense,” added Mr. Türk.

Prospects for “relatively optimistic” food trade, says FAO

The organization of food and agriculture (Fao) published their annual report on food prospects on Thursday which offers a “relatively optimistic” overview of international food markets.

According to the report, production is expected to increase in almost all categories, cereal production should reach record levels. And although prices remain higher this year, between April and May, there has been an overall drop of almost one percent.

The report notes, however, that global trends – including the increase in geopolitical tensions, climate shocks and commercial uncertainties – can still have a negative impact on production.

“While agricultural production trends seem solid, drivers who may have a negative impact on global food security is increasing,” said FAO chief economist Máximo Torero.

Poultry, fish fraud and fertilizer flow

The report noted that the epidemics of avian flu have become more persistent and constitute “one of the most important biological threats to the global poultry sector”. Nevertheless, poultry exports have remained largely resolving so far.

The question of fish fraud – the false declaration of the location or the manner of capture – has also been discussed, with the FAO warning that the risks increase.

In addition, the report has examined fertilizer flows, noting the growing exports of Russia and the decrease in fertilizer prices from the cocovio pandemic.

Overall, the report indicates that the cost of imports worldwide increased by 3.6% or almost 2.1 billions of dollars.

Eastern Chad “reaching a break point” while refugees from the Sudan war continue to arrive

On Friday, aid teams in the east of the Chad warned that the reception communities are reaching the point of rupture due to climatic shocks and the pressure to accommodate neighboring Sudan war refugees.

In an alert, the highest official of the UN help in Chad, François Batalingaya, warned that a humanitarian disaster takes place almost unnoticed by the media in the world.

“Right now, nearly 300,000 people are blocked on the border, waiting to be moved to land,” he noted.

“Tens of thousands, mainly women and children, sleep in the free free air, clean water and health care. They are war survivors. They arrive traumatized, hungry and without anything. They tell stories of mass murders, sexual violence and destroyed entire communities. ”

Major exodus

Since the start of the war in Sudan in April 2023, more than 850,000 Sudanese refugees have crossed Chad. They have joined the 400,000 existing Sudanese refugees who have arrived in the past 15 years.

The head of the United Nations explained that even before the latest Sudanese arrivals, nearly a million people in eastern Chad had an urgent need for help.

Today, “they share the little they have – food, water and space – with those who flee war,” said Batalingaya.

In a call for international aid, he warned that clinics are overwhelmed, malnutrition is increasing and that basic services are snuggled.

The humanitarian network is currently stopped because the Internet has closed earlier this week After the latest fiber cable route, serving the central and southern areas were cut during intense fights.

“” While the breakdown continues, the partners cannot communicate or coordinate Response activities and people in need remain isolated and without the information they need to access vital support and emergency services ”, United Nations Coordination Office Ochha said in an update.

Connectivity A problem of life or death

The restoration of connectivity is urgent. OCHA said the Israeli army recently published a warning on social networks where areas marked in red on a map are considered dangerous combat areas, calling on people to stay away from them.

Although these areas apparently cover most of the territory of the Gaza Strip, Most people have no way to access the ad.

Meanwhile, the partners working on telecommunications are continuing the efforts to coordinate urgent repairs of the fiber optic cable routes in Gaza, including those which were previously damaged.

However, since April, the Israeli authorities have denied more than 20 requests for carrying out this work.

“It is essential that the repair of the lines is activated immediately,” said OCHA.

Humanitarian missions refused

The agency has also indicated that the Israeli authorities continue to deny many humanitarian movements aimed at providing support for the Gaza population, which has more than two million.

Thursday, they rejected eight of the 18 UN attempts to coordinate these movements, including efforts to recover wheat flour and fuel supplies.

Four other missions could not be accomplished, either because of the obstacles, or because they had to be canceled for security or logistics reasons.

The six remaining missions, which included the staff movement, succeeded.

‘Recipe for chaos’

The conditions continue to deteriorate in Gaza after 20 months of war, followed by a total blockade of aid and commercial products that started on March 2.

People are piled up in shelters or live in tents and lack basic essentials. For example, the accumulation of solid waste has an impact on health and environmental conditions, the United Nations refugee agency UNRWA said Friday.

Israel has temporarily lifted the ban in mid-May, and the UN was able to bring small amounts of key aid elements such as flour and drugs-although far from being sufficient to prevent famine from having an impact on the population.

Since the end of May, the UN and the partners have been sidelined while a new help distribution model has started its operations.

Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, supported by Israel and the United States, uses private military entrepreneurs, according to the media. More than 200 people were killed and thousands of others injured by shots near his hubs.

The mechanism is “A recipe for chaos“UNRWA tweeted Friday, echoing the words of his chief Philippe Lazzarini.

“” It is armament to help and leads to fear, discrimination and growing despair“Said the agency.

“It’s time to lift the seat and leave the United Nations, including an UNRWA, do the work. Aid must be delivered safely and on a large scale. ”

“Hunger should never be encountered by bullets”

UN’s humanitarian affairs coordinator Tom Fletcher stressed the need to act now a declaration Posted late Thursday.

“Hunger should never be met with bullets,” he said. “Humanitarian workers must be allowed to do their job. Rescue aid must reach people in need, in accordance with humanitarian principles. ”

Fletcher said that attacks on civilians in Gaza “are unacceptable”, which includes the murder and injuries of hungry people looking for food and those who provide aid.

He said that the United Nations humanitarian convoys had been intercepted by armed Palestinian gangs, in danger of staff and drivers.

“Civilians who desperately need the food we are able to bring, have not been spared; Some have been killed by Israeli forces, and others crushed by trucks or stabbings trying to recover food, “he added.

Let the humanitarian workers work

He also mentioned the incidents “concentrated around militarized distribution centers, where hungry people tell us that Israeli forces have opened fire on them”.

“” Hospitals report that they have received 245 deaths and more than 2,150 injuries in these areas in the past two weeks“He said.

In addition, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation said Thursday that the Palestinians involved in their distribution had been killed, injured and captured by Hamas.

“Without immediate access and massively placed the basic survival means, We risk a descent into famine, another chaos and the loss of more lives“Warned the head of the United Nations.

“We are ready, as we have pointed out several times, to provide large-scale vital aid,” he said. “Let’s do our job.”

“We are closing this historic week not only with hope, but with a concrete commitment, a clear direction and an undeniable impulse,” said Li Junhua, under-secretary general of the United Nations for economic and social affairs and the secretary general of the summit.

Co-organized by France and Costa Rica, the five-day event brought 15,000 participants, including more than 60 heads of state and government, on the Mediterranean coast of France.

With more than 450 secondary events and nearly 100,000 visitors, the rally, nicknamed UNOC3built on the momentum of the previous ocean peaks in new York (2017) and Lisbon (2022). He resulted in a shared call to extend maritime protection, brake pollution, regulate the high seas and release the financing of vulnerable coastal and island nations.

Ambitious commitments

The result of the conference, known as Beautiful ocean action planis a two -part executive which includes a political declaration and more than 800 voluntary commitments by governments, scientists, United Nations agencies and civil society since the previous conference.

“These range from young people to ecosystem literacy in high seas, capacity building in science and innovation and undertakes to ratify intergovernmental treaties,” said Mr. LI.

The promises revealed this week reflected the extent of the ocean crisis. The European Commission announced an investment of 1 billion euros To support the conservation of the oceans, science and sustainable fishing, while French Polynesia is committed to creating the largest protected marine zone in the worldEnclosing its entire exclusive economic zone – around five million square kilometers.

Germany has launched a Program of 100 million euros to remove underwater ammunition Baltic and northern seas. Furthermore, New Zealand has hired $ 52 million to strengthen ocean governance in the Pacific, and Spain has announced five new protected marine areas.

A coalition of 37 countries led by Panama and Canada launched the High ambition coalition for a calm ocean To combat underwater pollution. Meanwhile, Indonesia and the World Bank have introduced an “coral obligation” to help finance the conservation of reefs in the country.

“The waves of change have been formed,” said Mr. Li. “It is now our collective responsibility to propel them forward – for our people, our planet and future generations.”

A diplomatic scene

The summit opened on Monday with Austere warnings. “We do not treat the ocean as what it is – the ultimate global commons,” said the UN Secretary General António GuterresAlongside the presidents of France and the Costa Rica, Emmanuel Macron and Rodrigo Chaves Robles, who called for a renewed multilateralism anchored in science.

Friday, France’s special envoy for the conference, Olivier Poivre d’Arvor, recalled the challenges: “We wanted Nice … to take a chance on a transformer change. I think we have advanced, but we can’t go back. »»

One of the main objectives of the conference was to accelerate progress High seas treaty – known as the BBNJ agreement – Adopted in 2023 to protect marine life in international waters. Sixty ratifications are necessary for it to come into force. During last week, 19 countries ratified the agreement, bringing the total number as for Friday, 50.

“This is an important victory,” said Poivre d’Arvor. “It is very difficult to work on the ocean right now when the United States is so little involved.”

The French envoy alluded to the absence of a senior American delegation, as well as to a recent decree of President Donald Trump, advancing deep exploitation. “The abyss is not for sale,” he said, echoing the remarks made earlier in the week by President Macron.

However, Mr. Poivre d’Arvor underlined the wide agreement concluded at the top. “A country can be missing,” he said. “But 92% of” co -owners “were present today in Nice.”

His counterpart, Arnoldo André-Tinoco, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Costa Rica, urged other nations to accelerate the financing of ocean protection. “Each commitment must be held responsible,” he said during the closing meeting of the conference.

Momentum – and a test

For Peter Thomson, the UN special envoy for the ocean, Nice marked a turning point. “This is not so much what is happening at the conference, that’s what happens later,” he said UN Newsrecalling the first days of ocean plea during the target of sustainable development 14 (SDG14), On life underwater, was established for the first time.

“From the desert in which we were in 2015 … where we are now, where you see this incredible commitment.”

For the future, attention already turns to the fourth conference of the United Nations Ocean, planned to be co-organized by Chile and South Korea in 2028.

“We will again see a big push up here,” predicted Mr. Thomson. He expressed hope that the main global agreements – including the BBNJ treaty, the subsidy agreement for WTO peaches and the future world plastics treaty – will all be ratified and implemented by then.

The 2028 summit will also mark a calculation moment, while SDG 14 approaches its 2030 objective.

“What are we doing when SDG 14 matures in 2030?” Mr. Thomson asked. “Obviously, this must be raised from ambition. It must be stronger. He stressed that if SDG14 had aimed to protect 10% of the ocean by 2020 – a target that the world has not reached – the new reference is 30% by 2030.

Wearing a shell collar offered by the Marshall Islands, the Native of Fiji congratulated the small island nations and the Atoll collectives for having fixed ambitious marine protections.

“If small countries can make great measures like that, why can’t the big countries follow suit?” He said.

He also praised the 2,000 scientists who met for the One Ocean Science Congress before the summit. “What a great way to manage things,” he said.

A unit demonstration

Despite the festive tone, the tensions lingered. Small island in development of states pushed to a stronger language Loss and damage -The damage inflicted by climate change that goes beyond what people can adapt. “You cannot have an ocean declaration without SMSN,” warned a delegate earlier this week.

Others, including President Chaves, from Costa Rica, called for a moratorium on the exploitation of the deep sea in international waters until science can assess risks – a step not included in the final declaration.

However, the political declaration adopted in Nice, entitled Our ocean, our future: United for urgent actionreaffirms the objective of protecting 30% of the ocean and the land by 2030, while supporting world executives as the Kunming-Montreal biodiversity agreement (Adopted in 2022, hiring countries to stop and reverse the loss of nature by 2030 through ambitious conservation targets and sustainable biodiversity management) and the UN International Maritime OrganizationClimatic objectives (IMO).

“The real test,” said Mr. Li, “is not what we said here in Nice – but what we do next. »»

While the sun plunged behind the Promenade des Anglais and the final plenary of the adjourned conference, the sea – old, vital and in danger – was silent of a fragile but shared promise.

Since the beginning of the year, M23 fighters supported by Rwanda have swept the eastern DRC, taking key cities, notably Goma and Bukavu. Violence has moved more than a million people in the provinces of ITTURI, North Kivu and South Kivu.

Speaking of the village of Saké in the north of Kivu, Predict The resident representative, Damien Mama, described having met a woman whose house had been destroyed after fled the combatants who advance in January.

Cut of livelihoods

“You know, with five children, you can imagine what it represents,” said Mr. Mama. “She told me that [her family] have received food and a temporary shelter; But what she needs is to go back to her farm to continue cultivating, to continue her activities and also have her house rebuilt. »»

All these new moved by the rebellious M23 advance are added to the Five million people already live in travel camps in the east of the DRC.

Health workers have repeatedly warned that crowded and unsanitary conditions provide ideal conditions for the spread of diseases, including MPOX, cholera and measles.

Given the scale of needs, it is urgent that small businesses get the help they need to present themselves again “offering income -generating activities to women and young people who create jobs,” insisted the UNDP manager.

“The economy has suffered a lot,” he said. “” Banks have closed, companies have been destroyed and many now operate less than 30% of their capacityWhich is a blow for their businesses. »»

Support for women and girls

At the same time, the United Nations agency remains determined to help the many women and girls affected by alarming levels of sexual violence.

This echoes an alert published last month by the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef), that during the most intense phase of this year’s conflict, a child was raped every half hour.

Over the next five months, the UNDP intends to support the creation of 1,000 jobs and restore basic infrastructure, benefiting around 15,000 people.

To do this, the United Nations will need $ 25 million.

“Until now, we have obtained $ 14 million thanks to [South] Korea, Canada, the United Kingdom and Sweden; And our call will be to encourage other countries and donors to provide us [the] Gap of $ 11 million. »»