News from the United Nations

• $2.5 billion plan to deliver aid to 11 million people in DR Congo February 27, 2025
  Humanitarians are calling for $2.54 billion to support operations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), amid ongoing attacks by M23 rebels in the east and a severe funding shortfall. 
• Packed with promise: Wisam’s journey back to school in Sudan February 27, 2025
  Wisam sits in her classroom, absorbed in her work, her fingers gripping a blue-coloured pencil, carefully sketching a flower in her notebook, one of more than 100,000 displaced students in war-torn Sudan who have returned to classes, with the support of Education Cannot Wait for the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) efforts to distribute urgently needed […]
• Somalia faces escalating crisis amid drought, conflict and price hikes February 26, 2025
  The humanitarian situation in Somalia is worsening as drought, conflict and soaring food prices push millions toward extreme hunger, UN agencies warned on Wednesday.
• Greatest threat to UN Peacekeeping is divisions between nations, says UN Peace Operations Chief February 26, 2025
  Peacekeeping efforts by the United Nations are being challenged by growing disunity between Member States, the UN head of Peace Operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix said in an interview with UN News, during the Conference for Women Peacekeepers in New Delhi.
• Conflict has turned parts of Sudan ‘into a hellscape,’ Security Council hears February 26, 2025
  A senior UN aid official has called on the Security Council to ensure better protection for civilians in Sudan together with unhindered humanitarian access, as the brutal war between rival militaries approaches a second year. 
• Sudan war: Any peace deal must respect national sovereignty, UN envoy says February 26, 2025
  As the war in Sudan approaches a second year, the UN Secretary-General’s Personal Envoy for the country has emphasized the need to re-double and coordinate efforts towards a peace agreement that respects national sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity – and ending the world’s largest humanitarian crisis. 
• Human Rights Council: Gaza ceasefire must hold, Türk insists February 26, 2025
  UN human rights chief Volker Türk issued a strong appeal on Wednesday for the fragile ceasefire in Gaza to hold, amid delays to talks between Hamas and Israel on extending the truce into the second phase.
• Syria: UN scales up aid deliveries as regional fighting continues February 26, 2025
  UN humanitarians on Wednesday reported a scaling up of humanitarian aid into northwest Syria, even as hostilities continue to impact civilians and limit access in different parts of the country.
• New report flags severity of US funding cuts to global AIDS response February 26, 2025
  Shuttered clinics and health workers laid off around the world reflect the widespread, negative toll the United States funding freeze is taking on the global AIDS response, according to a new situation report released on Wednesday by the UN agency charged with responding to the disease.
• West Bank security situation remains alarming, warn UN aid agencies February 26, 2025
  Weeks of deadly Israeli military raids in the occupied West Bank have turned Palestinian communities into “battlefields” and left 40,000 people homeless, UN humanitarians warned on Wednesday.