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World must not turn its back on Sudan’s deepening crisis: Guterres

·February 15, 2025·3 min read

Speaking at a high-level humanitarian conference in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, António Guterres described the situation in Sudan as a catastrophe of “staggering scale and brutality”. He warned that it is increasing spilling into the wider region. “It is a crisis that demands sustained and urgent attention,” he said,...

Strike on Chernobyl: ‘No room for complacency’ says atomic energy watchdog

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·February 15, 2025·1 min read

Russia has denied any responsibility for the attack. The head of the UN-backed international atomic energy watchdog, IAEA – which has a team based at the former Soviet nuclear site in Ukraine – issued a statement confirming that the strike had caused a fire, describing it as “a deeply concerning incident...

UN rights office condemns continuing Israeli military operation in West Bank

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·February 15, 2025·3 min read

Since the start of the offensive on 21 January, Israeli forces have killed at least 44 Palestinians, including five children and two women, in Jenin, Tulkarem and Tubas governorates, and four refugee camps in those areas, according to OHCHR. Many of those killed were unarmed and posed no imminent threat,...

Belarus: Violations remain ‘widespread and systematic’, says independent expert group

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·February 14, 2025·2 min read

The Group of Independent Experts on the Human Rights Situation in Belarus established in 2024, was tasked with investigating alleged violations since 2020 – when a disputed election saw President Alexander Lukashenko returned to power for a sixth term – and recommending steps toward accountability. The group was established last...

DR Congo displacement, health crisis worsens amid dwindling aid access

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·February 14, 2025·2 min read

“The crisis is worsening as people flee to areas where humanitarian aid cannot reach due to insecurity,” UN refugee agency (UNHCR) spokesperson Eujin Byun told reporters in Geneva. The development comes a day after the top UN aid official in the country Bruno Lemarquis warned that a shortage of humanitarian routes...

DR Congo: Shortage of humanitarian routes threatens aid operation, top UN official warns

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·February 14, 2025·3 min read

“The frontline is getting closer to Kavumu Airport,” warned Bruno Lemarquis on Wednesday. Following the fall of regional capital Goma, in North Kivu, at the end of January, the Rwanda-backed M23 armed group is now making headway against Congelese Government forces towards Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu. Kalehe, a...

Scaling up or losing steam? Parliamentarians debate the future of the SDGs

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·February 14, 2025·2 min read

Amid deepening global debt, taxation disputes and a widening gap between ambition and action, tensions flared over how (and whether) the SDGs can still be salvaged. The meeting, themed Scaling up Action for the Sustainable Development Goals: Finance, Institutions and Politics, underscored the urgency of rebooting the 2030 Agenda. “We...

Syria: Thousands of displaced head home, but many refugees still wary

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·February 14, 2025·1 min read

More than 825,000 people who were displaced within Syria have returned to their areas of origin since December, the UN humanitarian affairs office, OCHA, said on Thursday. ...

Aid surge into Gaza continues, UN teams prioritize immediate needs

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·February 13, 2025·4 min read

Amid reports that a return to full-scale war at the weekend may have been averted with the announcement by Hamas that it would comply with the agreed release of Israeli hostages, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that aid teams were “seizing every opportunity” to...

US funding cuts threaten global health response, WHO chief warns

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·February 13, 2025·2 min read

In a media briefing on Tuesday, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus highlighted the consequences of funding suspensions, including disruptions to HIV treatment, setbacks in polio eradication and limited resources for responding to mpox epidemics in Africa. “The suspension of funding to PEPFAR, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, caused...

Airing climate justice in Costa Rica on World Radio Day

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·February 13, 2025·5 min read

In a crucial year for climate action which, in accordance with the Paris Agreement, seeks to limit global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, World Radio Day is dedicated in 2025 to highlighting the power of broadcasting to bring climate change issues to prominence. That’s the goal of Climate Radio...

World News in Brief: Peacekeeper killed in CAR, Gaza and DR Congo latest, preventing violent extremism

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·February 13, 2025·3 min read

The ‘blue helmet’ was part of a long-range MINUSCA patrol to protect civilians, that was near the village of Zobassinda, in Bamingui-Bangoran prefecture, which came under attack on Tuesday night by an unidentified armed assailant. António Guterres expressed his deepest condolences to the families of the fallen peacekeeper, and to the Government...