Counting down the days: UN’s 218 international days explained
Right now, the UN observes 218 international days (and counting)! The tradition started long before the UN’s inception in 1945, but it didn’t take long for the Organization and its…
Sudan: as millions face famine, humanitarians plead for aid access
In a bleak assessment of the dire situation in Sudan where conflict is in its second year, the heads of 19 global humanitarian organizations issued an alert that further obstacles…
UN humanitarian flight takes vital medical supplies to Haiti
The international airport had been closed due to rampant gang violence in the country. The flight carried nearly 15 metric tonnes of medicine and medical supplies to be added to…
Ukraine: Top UN relief official deplores latest deadly strikes in Kharkiv
The attacks occurred in the city’s Novobovarskyi district late on Thursday. At least three people were killed and a further 16 injured, according to media reports. The repeated missile strikes…
Global AI summit tackles misinformation and deepfakes with a little ‘bot’ of help
The annual AI for Good Summit has been described as the leading UN platform promoting this technology to advance health, climate, gender, inclusive prosperity, sustainable infrastructure, and other global development…
Gaza: Children are starving amid persistent aid access obstacles, warn UN agencies
The alert from the World Health Organization (WHO) follows the finding that more than four in five children “did not eat for a whole day at least once in the…
UN official urges DPR Korea to halt missile activities and return to dialogue
At 10:45 PM local time on 27 May, the DPRK, also known as North Korea, conducted what it described as “the launch of reconnaissance satellite Malligyong-1-1 aboard the new-type satellite…
UN human rights chief sounds alarm over rising violence in Burkina Faso
Allegations of responsibility point to both armed groups and State actors. “While armed groups are presumed responsible for the vast majority of incidents and victims and should be held accountable,…
World News in Brief: Updates on worsening crises in Gaza, South Sudan, DR Congo
Only three field hospitals are operating in Rafah in southern Gaza, one of which is only functioning partially, and all of these facilities are overwhelmed and undersupplied, OCHA said, with…
Situation in southern Gaza ‘horrific and apocalpytic’: WFP
Matthew Hollingsworth, WFP Country Director in Palestine, warned that with limited access to the south “we will no doubt see what we saw happen in the north in the first…