Global Issues
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Ukraine: Russian attacks on energy could trigger major ‘crisis within crisis’
- UN News
The UN’s top aid official in Ukraine expressed concern on Friday about “continuous attacks” on energy production sites and distribution facilities.
Will COP30 Reenergize to Nigeria’s Great Green Wall Project?
- Inter Press Service
BATU, Nigeria, October 30 (IPS) - In 2017, 45-year-old Jabiru Muhammed could hardly contain his excitement when the village head of Batu in Jigawa State, northwestern Nigeria, announced that their community would work with officials from the National Agency for the Great Green Wall (NAGGW) to plant trees across a large stretch of land in the village.
UN Envoy hails Colombia’s peace process as global model, calls for more funding
- UN News
The newly appointed Head of the UN Verification Mission in Colombia, Miroslav Jenča, has praised the country’s peace process as “a global model,” while urging greater financial support to strengthen the Mission’s work.
World News in Brief: Ukraine energy targeted, nuclear proliferation warning, rights violations in Nicaragua
- UN News
Russian armed forces conducted another large-scale combined attack across Ukraine in the early hours of Thursday, reportedly targeting critical energy infrastructure, said the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission for Ukraine.
‘Repeated bouts of violence’ put Syria rebuilding at risk: Independent rights investigator
- UN News
Incidents of mass killings and torture in post-Assad Syria are tempering early optimism about the transitional government’s ability to put an end to entrenched cycles of violence, the head of the UN-mandated independent investigative body on Syria said on Thursday.
‘Blood on the sand. Blood on the hands’: UN decries world’s failure as Sudan’s El Fasher falls
- UN News
El Fasher has “descended into an even darker hell,” senior UN officials warned on Thursday, as the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia seized control of the North Darfur capital after a 500-day siege, forcing tens of thousands to flee on foot amid reports of mass executions, rape and starvation.
Security Council LIVE: Ambassadors meet in emergency session on Sudan
- UN News
Reports of mass atrocities in and around the newly-captured city of El Fasher in Darfur mark a new low in Sudan's brutal civil war and the Security Council met in emergency session on Thursday morning in New York to address the rapidly deteriorating situation. Civilians are facing starvation and mass displacement as the UN continues providing lifesaving aid throughout the country. Follow our in-depth live coverage; UN News app users can go here.
Myanmar at a crossroads: A choice between impunity and justice
- UN News
Myanmar stands at a crossroads between impunity and humanitarian crisis, as escalating military airstrikes, widespread civilian casualties and mounting evidence of war crimes continue to devastate the country.
UN chief condemns Gaza killings, urges full respect for ceasefire
- UN News
The UN Secretary-General has strongly condemned the killing of civilians, including children, in Israeli airstrikes across Gaza overnight into Wednesday, calling for all parties to uphold their commitments to the fragile ceasefire
UN nuclear watchdog highlights Iran, Syria and Ukraine as key global tests
- UN News
Mounting nuclear risks – from Ukraine’s war-torn power plants to Iran’s unresolved safeguards, and renewed inspection efforts in Syria – are testing the global non-proliferation regime like never before, the UN’s nuclear watchdog warned on Wednesday.
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