News from the United Nations

• Climate change takes increasingly extreme toll on African countries May 12, 2025
  Devastating floods in South Sudan in recent months left thousands of herders without their most precious possessions: goats, cows and cattle. The animals are central to people’s lives and age-old customs including marriage and cultural traditions. All risk being swept away or scorched by the ravages of climate change.
• Gaza: Starvation looms for one in five people, say food security experts May 12, 2025
  Gazans remain at “critical risk of famine,” UN-backed food security experts warned on Monday, a full 19 months since war began with Israel and 70 days since deliveries stopped of all aid and commercial supplies.
• UN migration agency helping migrants in the US return home voluntarily May 12, 2025
  The United States has asked the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to assist undocumented migrants who choose to return to their home countries. 
• Gaza: Guterres hails hostage release, renews ceasefire call May 12, 2025
  UN Secretary-General António Guterres welcomed the release of a hostage held in Gaza on Monday and renewed his call for a permanent ceasefire and greater humanitarian access to the war-torn enclave. 
• UN chief calls for major reforms to cut costs and improve efficiency May 12, 2025
  Amid financial strain and growing global challenges, UN Secretary-General António Guterres is pushing for wide-ranging structural reforms to enhance the world body’s effectiveness.
• World News in Brief: Sudan aid update, child migrant deaths at sea, nursing shortages, invasive pest scourge May 12, 2025
  The UN expressed deep concern on Monday over the impact of ongoing drone attacks on civilian infrastructure across Sudan.
• Field of Dreams: Football Breathes Life into Yemen’s Camps May 11, 2025
  Every summer in Ma’rib, Yemen, a place marked by loss and uncertainty, a football tournament offers a rare kind of hope. For hundreds of displaced youth living across more than a dozen sites, it’s a chance to unite, to belong, and to dream.
• ‘We can do better’ for pedestrian and cyclist safety worldwide May 10, 2025
  A cycling network expanded from 70 kilometres to over 400 kilometres in Fortaleza, Brazil. A project to create a bike lane in every street of Paris. And the longest pedestrian and cycle tunnel in the world, in the Norwegian coastal city of Bergen. 
• Guterres welcomes India-Pakistan ceasefire May 10, 2025
  Following pronouncements of an end to hostilities between India and Pakistan, neighbouring nuclear powers, the UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, said that the organisation stands ready to support efforts aimed at promoting peace and stability in the region.
• Haiti: Displaced families grapple with death ‘from the inside’ and out May 9, 2025
  Shattered by her husband’s death during the rising tide of gang violence in Haiti last year, Christiana and her six children fled 223 kilometres from their hometown to the city of Mirebalais, where her six-year-old daughter, Leineda, began treatment for malnutrition.