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UN agency rolls out three-year plan to safeguard Ukraine’s bread basket

·January 7, 2026·1 min read

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) released its emergency response and early recovery plan, outlining priority measures to protect agricultural livelihoods, restore production and strengthen the whole agrifood sector. The plan links immediate emergency assistance with early recovery and resilience-building. It prioritises protection of food production for vulnerable rural...

Venezuela crisis: UN aid effort continues amid political upheaval

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·January 7, 2026·3 min read

The backdrop Venezuela has endured years of economic collapse, political instability, hyperinflation and economic sanctions from Washington, compounded by floods, landslides and other climate shocks. The recent seizure of President Nicolás Maduro by US special forces has added a new layer of uncertainty to an already volatile situation. According to...

Winter storms upended thousands in Gaza

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·January 6, 2026·1 min read

“Tents were blown away or damaged, homes collapsed under storm conditions, and personal belongings were soaked,” according to its latest update. “In several locations, entire displacement sites were flooded due to inadequate drainage and low-lying terrain.” The storms also damaged temporary learning spaces and roads used to bring much-needed supplies into Gaza, where...

Venezuela’s people must be heard, insists UN human rights chief

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·January 6, 2026·3 min read

The US action made “all States less safe around the world”, said Ravina Shamdasani, spokesperson for the High Commissioner. Speaking to journalists in Geneva, Ms. Shamdasani rejected the US justification for its intervention on the grounds of the Venezuelan Government’s “longstanding and appalling” human rights record. “Accountability for human rights...

UN chief deeply concerned over ‘possible intensification of instability’ in Venezuela

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·January 6, 2026·2 min read

In a statement delivered by Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Rosemary DiCarlo, António Guterres said the Council was meeting “at a grave time” following the 3 January US military action in Venezuela. The broad outlines of the operation, which unfolded across Caracas and the northern states of Miranda, Aragua and La...

Iran protests: UN warns against further bloodshed

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·January 6, 2026·1 min read

That’s according to UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric, briefing reporters in New York on Monday. News reports cited videos posted online Monday showing demonstrations in Tehran and the city of Yasuj, while demonstrations took place last week in a large majority of Iranian provinces, according to human rights activists. Deaths and...

Gaza: 100 per cent of basic food needs met for first time since 2023

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·January 5, 2026·1 min read

“The January round is the first since October 2023, in which partners had sufficient stock to meet 100 per cent of the minimum caloric standard,” UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric told journalists on Monday. That’s compared to the end of 2025, when each family received just 50 to 75 per cent...

Security Council LIVE: ‘The power of the law must prevail,’ says Guterres

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·January 5, 2026·1 min read

The Security Council is meeting in emergency session in New York to address the US rendition of Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro from Caracas, a move that has sent shockwaves through the region and beyond. The UN chief António Guterres told ambassadors there must be respect for national sovereignty, “political independence...

Yemen aid response buckling under funding cuts as needs keep rising

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·January 4, 2026·1 min read

According to the December humanitarian update from aid coordination office, OCHA, Yemen’s 2025 Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan is just 25 per cent funded, forcing agencies to scale back life-saving services across all sectors, despite worsening needs. Health and protection services have been particularly hard hit, exposing vulnerable communities to growing...

Security Council: New faces, old tensions as five nations take their seats

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·January 4, 2026·4 min read

Bahrain, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Latvia and Liberia have begun two-year terms as non-permanent members, replacing Algeria, Guyana, the Republic of Korea, Sierra Leone and Slovenia, whose terms ended last month. They join the other five non-permanent members – Denmark, Greece, Pakistan, Panama and Somalia – who...

‘Do not give up on children’: Displaced by violence, a Haitian girl finds hope at school

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·January 3, 2026·4 min read

A teenage Haitian girl who was forced to flee her home in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, due to gang violence has urged adults not to “give up on children.” Thirteen-year-old Dieussika was living peacefully with her family before armed violence and insecurity forced them to flee. “We had to leave our...

US actions in Venezuela ‘constitute a dangerous precedent’: Guterres

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·January 3, 2026·2 min read

US President Donald Trump made the announcement on social media, and the US Attorney General said Mr. Maduro and his wife would face “the full wrath of American justice on American soil, in American courts,” based on a 2020 narcoterrorism indictment during the first Trump administration in New York. The...