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World News in Brief: Communal violence in South Sudan, Syria and Gaza updates

3 months 2 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home World News in Brief: Communal violence in South Sudan, Syria and Gaza updates 06 January 2025 UNMISS/Nektarios Markogiannis A UN peacekeeping patrol passes through Yei in South Sudan. (file) Communal violence remains the primary driver of conflict in South Sudan and continues to exact a heavy toll on civilians across the country, UN peacekeepers said on Monday…

‘Famine conditions are spreading’ as Sudan’s crisis worsens: Security Council

3 months 2 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home ‘Famine conditions are spreading’ as Sudan’s crisis worsens: Security Council 06 January 2025 UN Photo/Loey Felipe OCHA's Edem Wosornu addresses the Security Council meeting on the protection of civilians in armed conflict in Sudan. Human suffering in Sudan has reached devastating levels, with over 11.5 million people internally displaced and 3.2 million seeking refuge in neighbouring…

First Person: Gaza, where starving people are trapped in a land reduced to rubble

3 months 2 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home First Person: Gaza, where starving people are trapped in a land reduced to rubble 06 January 2025 © WFP/Jonathan Dumont Gazans in Khan Younis desperate to receive WFP rice. “We saw dead bodies scattered to the left and right, decomposing in the sun”, recounts Jonathan Dumont, Head of Emergency Communications at the World Food Programme (WFP). A veteran of conflict zones around the world…

Young Venezuelan refugees get a fresh start in Trinidad’s schools

3 months 2 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Young Venezuelan refugees get a fresh start in Trinidad’s schools 04 January 2025 IOM Trinidad and Tobago Two Venezuelan children use tablets at school. Until recently, Venezuela child refugees and migrants in Trinidad and Tobago were barred from State-run schools. This year, a change in the law backed by the United Nations means that several dozen were able to benefit from formal education…

World Braille Day 2025

3 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home World Braille Day 2025 04 January 2025 Palais des Nations Recently installed at the Palais des Nations, braille orientation tables mark an…

UN continues to call for timely Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon

3 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home UN continues to call for timely Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon 03 January 2025 UNIFIL UNIFIL peacekeepers from the Republic of Korea provide assistance to people returning to their homes in southern Lebanon. Operations by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) north of the UN-monitored Blue Line in southern Lebanon have continued, according to the UN peacekeeping mission in the country,…

‘Hospitals have become battlegrounds’: Gaza’s health system on brink of collapse

3 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home ‘Hospitals have become battlegrounds’: Gaza’s health system on brink of collapse 03 January 2025 © UNRWA Debris and waste continue to pose a health threat to people in Gaza. With seven per cent of the population killed or injured since October 2023, the health crisis in Gaza shows no signs of abating…

MIDDLE EAST CRISIS LIVE: Security Council holds emergency meeting on collapse of Gaza health system

3 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home MIDDLE EAST CRISIS LIVE: Security Council holds emergency meeting on collapse of Gaza health system 03 January 2025 © UNRWA Patients are teated at the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza (file photo). The UN Security Council met on Friday morning in New York to debate the collapse of health services in Gaza. The meeting was called by Algeria, the leading voice for the Arab world on the…

Syria: UN teams support cholera vaccination in northeastern camps

3 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Syria: UN teams support cholera vaccination in northeastern camps 03 January 2025 © UNICEF UNICEF's cholera vaccination campaign is launched in Syria's Al Hol camp. In northeast Syria, UN teams pressed ahead with a lifesaving cholera vaccine campaign in Al Hol detention camp complex on Friday, despite rumours of attacks by ISIL extremists and uncertainty across the war-torn country…

Haiti gangs crisis: Top rights expert decries attacks on hospitals

3 months 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Haiti gangs crisis: Top rights expert decries attacks on hospitals 03 January 2025 © WHO/David Lorens Mentor PAHO and its partners are providing medical assistance to 18,000 people in Haiti using mobile clinics. The UN’s top expert on human rights in Haiti on Friday condemned “intentional” attacks on hospitals, clinics and healthcare workers by armed gangs there, warning that medical…