(UN News)* — UN Secretary-General António Guterres has condemned the killing of six Palestinian journalists in Gaza this past weekend, his Spokesman said on Monday [].
The reporters – five of whom worked for the Al Jazeera media network – were killed in a targeted Israeli strike in Gaza City the previous day.
“These latest killings highlight the extreme risks journalists continue to face when covering the ongoing war,” UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said during his regular media briefing from New York.
“The Secretary-General calls for an independent and impartial investigation into these latest killings.”
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 7 2025 (IPS)* –– The humanitarian situation in Haiti has deteriorated significantly in the past few weeks, with the United Nations (UN) underscoring a growing list of abuses committed by armed groups, including killings, kidnappings, and sexual violence.
Christiana, a mother of six, fled repeated waves of armed violence, first from her home in Morne Blanc, where her husband was killed in 2024, then from Mirebalais in March 2025, seeking safety in Boucan Carré. Credit: UNICEF/Herold Joseph
(UN News)* — In Africa’s Sahel region, deepening violence and poverty – driven by displacement, hunger and terrorism – are stripping women and girls of their right to safety, education and a viable future.
Risks to women and girls across this vast region are severe and systemic, as political instability, environmental collapse and a declining international presence take their toll.
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From abductions and child marriage to exclusion from schools and public life, their lives and opportunities are being steadily stripped away, Sima Bahous, Executive Director of UN Women, told ambassadors in the Security Council on Thursday [].
“In the Sahel, where the world’s gravest concerns converge, women and girls bear the brunt,” she said.
Paulo Benedito built his life around the sea. Born and raised in Quissanga, a small coastal town in northern Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province, Paulo came from a long line of fishermen.
The ocean was more than a livelihood—it was a way of life passed down through generations.
Each morning, he would set out before sunrise in his wooden boat, returning hours later with enough fish to feed his family—and, if the catch was good, to sell at the market.
Without urgent donations, 1.3 million people risk losing food assistance.
Displaced by conflict in northeastern Nigeria, Iya and her large family barely survive with WFP support. Now, that assistance may dry up altogether. Photo: WFP/Arete/Nommiyid Chantu
On the good days, Iya and her husband are barely able to feed their large family. On the bad ones, their seven children go to bed hungry in the small mud-brick hut they call home.
In northeastern Nigeria’s Mafa displacement camp, where the family lives, August is shaping into a month of many bad days.
“The support we get isn’t enough,” says 45-year-old Iya of the World Food Programme (WFP) food assistance. As a conflict-displaced person, her last name is being withheld for her protection. “As a parent, it’s never enough.”
GENEVA – Uganda is on the verge of hosting two million refugees as escalating crises in Sudan, South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) drive hundreds of people to cross the border daily in search of safety and lifesaving aid.
Since the start of 2025, an average of 600 people per day have arrived in the country, with numbers expected to reach two million by year’s end.
Already Africa’s largest refugee-hosting country and the third largest globally, Uganda is currently home to 1.93 million refugees, over a million of whom are below the age of 18.
(UN News)* — Help is needed urgently to halt a deadly cholera outbreak that is sweeping across Sudan, UN agencies said on Friday [], while warning that communities continue to be terrorised by parties to the conflict even as they flee violence.
“People told me multiple times that when they were fleeing from Zamzam [displacement camp], armed people would threaten them while they were in flight, saying sure, ‘Flee, go to that place, run here, run there, we will follow you, we will find you’,” said Jocelyn Elizabeth Knight, a Protection Officer for the UN refugee agency, UNHCR.
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Briefing journalists in Geneva, Ms. Knight described speaking to one traumatized child at a UNHCR shelter, whose experience mirrors that of countless other youngsters across the nation.
“A tiny boy told me, ‘You know, during the day things are okay here, but I’m afraid to go to sleep at night in case the place where we’re living is attacked again’.”
Indigenous peoples consider 22% of the world’s land surface their home. They live in areas where around 80% of the planet’s biodiversity is found on not-commercially-exploited land. UN Composition with photographs by Manuel Elias, Alessia Pierdomenico, Evan Schneider and Marcel Crozet (left to right.)
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Sana’a, Yemen — Fourteen men and four women set off from the Horn of Africa, drifting into the unknown across the sea.
After surviving the journey to Yemen, Sennait gave birth at a migrant centre and now hopes to rebuild her life with her baby. Photo: AI-generated image
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Among them was Sennait*, a 20-year-old Ethiopian woman carrying the weight of her father’s recent death and the scars of a harrowing trek from her village to the coastal town of Bossaso.
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Her life had once been simple. She went to school, laughed with friends, and helped her father tend their small farm.
After surviving the journey to Yemen, Sennait gave birth at a migrant centre and now hopes to rebuild her life with her baby. Photo: AI-generated image
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