Fighting in Yemen has intensified to levels not seen since 2020, displacing nearly 300,000 people and pushing families toward child marriage, the UN Population Fund says. In Taiz, only five of 27 designated emergency maternal and newborn hospitals are even partially functioning.
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UNICEF's Water Under Fire report documents attacks on water, sanitation and hygiene systems rising from fewer than 45 incidents in 2021 to more than 135 in 2025 across 23 countries and territories, with children facing severe consequences.
Wilson Joseph, leader of the 400 Mawozo gang, has written to the UN seeking talks while El Salvador sends 2,000 troops to Haiti to search for four missing soldiers. The UN says receiving the letter does not imply endorsement.
Fighting has sealed all roads into Taiz, cutting off supplies to nearly a quarter of a million people as a dozen hospitals risk closure. Meanwhile, funding cuts are shuttering Afghan health centres and the UN has begun the phased closure of its Western Sahara mission.
The World Food Programme is providing hot meals to evacuees from Oleshky after a humanitarian pause, while the UN Development Programme appeals for $500 million to install energy equipment before winter.
Source: UN News. Text reproduced with attribution. The United Nations Security Council has unanimously voted to extend its sanctions regime on Sudan for two months, as the World Health Organization (WHO) warns that the...
Source: UN News. Text reproduced with attribution. GENEVA — The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) is facing severe strain as deep funding cuts threaten its core mission of protecting people fleeing persecution, UNHCR...
Source: UN News. Text reproduced with attribution. The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to Navanethem "Navi" Pillay, the former United Nations human rights chief, honoring her "for her efforts...
Fighting in the region has escalated in the last few months as clashes have intensified between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Government....
