Mission chief updates Security Council on flood disaster ‘beyond imagination’ — Global Issues

Mission chief updates Security Council on flood disaster ‘beyond imagination’ — Global Issues

Briefing the Security Council, Abdoulaye Bathily noted the thousands of lives lost by the dam bursts which destroyed whole neighbourhoods after Storm Daniel slammed the region on 10 September. The Special Representative told ambassadors that despite the sense of national unity and compassion shown by ordinary Libyans, the disaster had…

Global leaders call for action to meet ambitious development boost — Global Issues

Global leaders call for action to meet ambitious development boost — Global Issues

The weeklong forum, organized by the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), focuses on the challenges faced by developing countries amid today’s overlapping global crises. The Secretary-General urged participants – including national and business leaders, sustainable stock exchanges, sovereign wealth funds and finance experts – to put the Sustainable…

UN ‘committed’ to aid Ukraine, blue helmets exit northern Mali, Chad update — Global Issues

UN ‘committed’ to aid Ukraine, blue helmets exit northern Mali, Chad update — Global Issues

That’s according to Humanitarian Coordinator Denise Brown, who led a convoy at the weekend carrying aid for around 1,000 civilians to Chasiv Yar, just six kilometres from the frontline in the Donetsk region. The UN aid coordination office OCHA warned on Monday that civilians are facing “daily attacks” along frontline…

Mission chief updates Security Council on flood disaster ‘beyond imagination’ — Global Issues

‘History is watching’ warns UN relief chief, saying aid access is key priority — Global Issues

“History is watching,” Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths told UN News in Geneva, highlighting the desperate situation facing around one million Gazans uprooted in the last week, after the Israeli military warned of an imminent offensive following the deadly 7 October attacks on Israel by militant group Hamas, which has…

Mission chief updates Security Council on flood disaster ‘beyond imagination’ — Global Issues

UN relief chiefs urges end to ‘humanitarian nightmare’ in Sudan — Global Issues

Up to 9,000 people have been reportedly killed, more than 5.6 million driven from their homes and 25 million people need aid, because of the conflict that erupted in mid-April between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and other armed groups. In a statement marking…

Mission chief updates Security Council on flood disaster ‘beyond imagination’ — Global Issues

Middle East on ‘verge of the abyss’ UN warns, as Israel-Hamas conflict deepens Gaza crisis — Global Issues

The UN chief’s appeal comes as clean water and other vital supplies are dwindling inside Gaza in the wake of Israel’s blockade. UN and other humanitarian agencies have worked round the clock to preposition aid since the latest conflict between Israel and Hamas broke out following the militant group’s 7…

Mission chief updates Security Council on flood disaster ‘beyond imagination’ — Global Issues

Forcing patients to flee hospitals a ‘death sentence’ warns WHO — Global Issues

The statement came as the Israeli-imposed deadline for some 1.1 million civilians to leave the northern part of the enclave, ahead of what is expected to be a major advance into Gaza by Israeli ground forces, expired. “UNRWA shelters in Gaza and northern Gaza are no longer safe. This is…

UN voices concern over obstacles to Mali mission’s orderly withdrawal — Global Issues

UN voices concern over obstacles to Mali mission’s orderly withdrawal — Global Issues

The peacekeeping mission which for many years has been the deadliest place to serve as a UN ‘blue helmet’, is due to draw down fully by 31 December, in accordance with its Security Council mandate. At that point, MINUSMA’s 12 camps and one temporary operating base will be closed and…

Nowhere to go, as humanitarian situation reaches ‘lethal low’ — Global Issues

Nowhere to go, as humanitarian situation reaches ‘lethal low’ — Global Issues

The development follows an announcement by UN Spokesperson, Stéphane Dujarric, just before midnight Eastern Standard Time on Thursday, that UN representatives in Gaza had been “informed by their liaison officers in the Israeli military” that everyone living north of Wadi Gaza should relocate to southern Gaza within 24 hours. ‘Death…

Russia urged to withdraw arrest warrants for judges — Global Issues

Russia urged to withdraw arrest warrants for judges — Global Issues

“We share the concerns expressed on Tuesday by the Presidency of the ICC’s Assembly of States Parties that these actions are unacceptable, and we call for them to be promptly withdrawn,” said Spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani, speaking in Geneva. Last month, Russia issued arrest warrants against the President, deputy and one…