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‘We’re afraid to return home’: Uprooted again, Congolese civilians face hunger and more insecurity

1 month 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home ‘We’re afraid to return home’: Uprooted again, Congolese civilians face hunger and more insecurity 25 February 2025 © WFP/Michael Castofas Timusifu is one of around 700,000 people who fled Goma. Around 700,000 people were forced to leave Goma, one of the biggest cities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) when it fell in January to rebels, known as M23. With the conflict spreading,…

Success for polio campaign in Gaza while West Bank tensions continue

1 month 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Success for polio campaign in Gaza while West Bank tensions continue 25 February 2025 © UNICEF/Omar Al-Qattaa Two women cross the road in the center of Gaza City. (file) UN humanitarians reported on Tuesday that aid workers in Gaza supporting local health authorities have now managed to vaccinate nearly 550,000 children under 10 – nearly all those it aimed to reach…

Ukraine: Post-war reconstruction set to cost $524 billion

1 month 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Ukraine: Post-war reconstruction set to cost $524 billion 25 February 2025 © Relief Coordination Centre A building in Izyum, in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine lies in ruins after being struck by a missile. The total cost of reconstruction and recovery in Ukraine is estimated at $524 billion (€506 billion) over the next decade, according to a new study published on Tuesday.…

UN rights chief decries substantial rise in death penalty executions

1 month 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home UN rights chief decries substantial rise in death penalty executions 25 February 2025 Unsplash/Maria Oswalt A protest against the death penalty outside the Supreme Court in Washington DC in the United States. (file) International efforts to eradicate the death penalty came into sharp focus at the Human Rights Council on Tuesday, where UN human rights chief Volker Türk decried a substantial…

‘Political courage’ needed to end war in the Middle East: Top UN envoy

1 month 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home ‘Political courage’ needed to end war in the Middle East: Top UN envoy 25 February 2025 © UNRWA A woman stands by a tent in Gaza. A sustainable resolution to the war in Gaza and the broader Israel-Palestine conflict relies on political courage from all sides, the top UN official for the Middle East Peace Process said on Tuesday…

WHO marks 20 years of its lifesaving tobacco control treaty

1 month 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home WHO marks 20 years of its lifesaving tobacco control treaty 25 February 2025 © Unsplash/Jonathan Kemper The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control is 20 years old. A UN treaty that addresses the global tobacco epidemic has saved millions of lives over the past two decades, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday.…

Farmers must be at the heart of biodiversity action

1 month 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Farmers must be at the heart of biodiversity action 25 February 2025 © CIAT/Neil Palmer A farmer plants rice in Rupan, Nepal. “Without the farmers, it is only political policy without implementation” – that was the stark message delivered by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s Director-General on Tuesday to delegates attending the latest round of UN biodiversity talks in Rome.…

Haiti: Gang violence displaces 6,000 people in one month

1 month 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Haiti: Gang violence displaces 6,000 people in one month 25 February 2025 © UNOCHA/Giles Clarke A family displaced by gang violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, lives in a tent on the roof of a former government building. More than 6,000 people in Haiti have been forced from their homes by gang violence in almost a month, hampering aid efforts by humanitarian agencies, the United Nations…

World News in Brief: Conflict in DR Congo, Europe’s ‘cradle to cane’ crisis, millions may go hungry in Chad

1 month 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home World News in Brief: Conflict in DR Congo, Europe’s ‘cradle to cane’ crisis, millions may go hungry in Chad 25 February 2025 © UNFPA DRC/Jonas Yunus A displacement camp in Goma, capital of the North Kivu region, which is now sheltering hundreds of thousands of people fleeing violence. Ongoing fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) between Rwanda-backed M23 rebels and…

World’s ‘warmongers’ must end disdain for global order, UN chief insists

1 month 3 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home World’s ‘warmongers’ must end disdain for global order, UN chief insists 24 February 2025 © WFP/Niema Abdelmageed Humanitarian aid is delivered by the UN to Kharkiv Oblast in Ukraine. With no end to numerous protracted conflicts - not least in Ukraine, three years to the day since the full-scale Russian invasion - UN chief António Guterres on Monday scorned the world’s “warmongers” for…