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Eastern DR Congo: Crisis deepens as crime and insecurity surges

·February 25, 2025·1 min read

According to the UN relief coordination office, OCHA, aid workers have been among those killed, and widespread human rights violations have been reported, UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric told journalists at a regular news briefing in New York. “In Lubero Territory, north of Goma, clashes last week forced more than 100,000...

Lebanon: Food insecurity deepens following conflict, new report reveals

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·January 23, 2025·2 min read

Developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the World Food Programme (WFP) and the Ministry of Agriculture, the report reveals that the impact of hostilities on agriculture and the economy will likely slow recovery. Some 1.65 million people are now facing crisis or emergency levels of hunger, with 400,000 additional...

Fresh evacuation orders and airstrikes highlight ongoing insecurity in Gaza

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·January 3, 2025·2 min read

This comes a day after Israel once again ordered the evacuation of large areas within Gaza, citing rocket fire into its territory. The new orders cover about three square kilometres in North Gaza and Deir Al-Balah governorates, according to initial analysis by OCHA. Deadly airstrikes Strikes have since been reported...

Lebanon: food insecurity ‘set to worsen’ amid deadly strikes

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·November 11, 2024·2 min read

The update from UN agencies also reported that Israeli strikes have left more than 3,100 people dead and over 13,800 injured since October last year. Turning to the hospitals in conflict areas – Tyre and Jbeil Bint, Marjeoun, Baabda, Lebanon Mount and Baalbek – eight are non-functional, nine are semi-functional and...

World News in Brief: Aid trucks on Ukraine frontline, Africa schools close due to insecurity, Georgia rights defenders

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·September 9, 2024·3 min read

There are still nearly 2,000 people living in the town of Beryslav, including more than 70 children and 90 people who have only limited mobility. “Despite constant shelling, they have not evacuated the area, which has no electricity, which has no gas and which has no water, all due to...

DR Congo: Elections looming, amid worsening insecurity

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·December 11, 2023·2 min read

Briefing ambassadors at the UN Security Council, Bintou Keita, Special Representative of the Secretary-General noted steady progress in the electoral process despite significant logistical, financial, and security challenges. However, the resurgence of the crises related to the M23 group in the east, and new pockets of insecurity in the Greater...

Somalia: Insecurity worsens, civilians pay the price

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·October 19, 2023·2 min read

Briefing Ambassadors in New York, UN Special Representative for Somalia Catriona Laing, described the country as being at a critical juncture. “Last year, we saw the largest increase in civilian casualties since 2017. Sadly, early data indicate a similar trend in 2023, with 1,289 civilian casualties recorded so far,” she...

Haiti: Children facing triple threat of insecurity, malnutrition, disease

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·October 5, 2023·2 min read

Over five million Haitians, including a record three million children, need humanitarian support in 2023. Nearly five million are acutely hungry, UNICEF said, adding the dire situation is “terrorizing children and families and destroying livelihoods amid unprecedented hunger, malnutrition and a resurgent cholera epidemic.” Haiti was among the top...

Niger crisis could worsen insecurity throughout West Africa, UN envoy warns

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·August 2, 2023·2 min read

Briefing journalists at UN Headquarters in New York, Léonardo Santos Simão reiterated condemnation of the attempted overthrow of Nigerien President Mohamed Bazoum on 26 July. He also underscored support for efforts by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) aimed at restoring constitutional order and consolidating democratic gains in the...

‘Unprecedented insecurity’ in Haiti requires urgent action: new UN envoy

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·April 27, 2023·4 min read

Gang violence is expanding at an alarming rate in areas previously considered relatively safe in the capital, Port-au-Prince, and outside the city, with a shocking increase in criminality and abuses, and a police force that is unable to handle the situation. At the same time, almost half the population, 5.2...

Around 2 million facing food insecurity across Lebanon

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·January 20, 2023·2 min read

Lebanon’s first ever Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) Acute Food Insecurity Analysis predicts that the situation will deteriorate between January and April this year, with 2.26 million people – 1.46 million Lebanese residents and around 800,000 refugees – expected to be in the “crisis” phase or worse, needing urgent assistance. The...

‘Unprecedented’ insecurity in West Africa and the Sahel, Security Council hears

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·January 11, 2023·3 min read

In her briefing, Giovanie Biha, Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Officer-in-Charge of the UN Office for the region, UNOWAS, urged ambassadors to continue to support a strategy centred on building resilience, promoting good governance, and strengthening peace and security. Ms. Biha presented the latest UNOWAS report covering trends...