Haji Mohammad Shafi spent 44 years in Pakistan before he was forced to leave. He sold everything he owned and returned to Afghanistan with his five children, arriving with almost nothing.

Retards dans l’enregistrement des réfugiés, fermeture de foyers, recul de la protection de l’enfance. La crise financière qui frappe l’agence de l’ONU pour les réfugiés ne se traduit plus seulement par une diminution de l’aide, mais par un début d’effondrement des dispositifs censés protéger les plus vulnérables. Près de 8,3 millions de personnes de force pourraient en faire les frais cette année.

Alors que les négociations diplomatiques se multiplient concernant la République démocratique du Congo, les combats se poursuivent dans l’Est, où le M23 conserve de vastes territoires et où d’autres groupes armés continuent de s’en prendre aux civils. À cette guerre désormais chronique s’ajoute la plus grave épidémie d’Ebola jamais enregistrée dans le pays.

« Tous les voyants sont au rouge ». Devant l’Assemblée générale de l’ONU, le Secrétaire général a lancé mardi cette mise en garde, 81 ans après les bombardements atomiques d’Hiroshima et de Nagasaki, alors que le risque nucléaire atteint, selon lui, son niveau le plus élevé depuis la fin de la Guerre froide. António Guterres a appelé les États à renouer d’urgence le dialogue, enrayer la course aux armements et relancer les efforts en faveur du désarmement.

Le Conseil de sécurité de l’ONU a adopté mardi une résolution prorogeant de six mois, jusqu’au 31 mars 2027, le mandat de la Force de répression des gangs (FRG) en Haïti.

Food waste is helping to fuel global warming, one half-eaten sandwich at a time. 

Amid rising tensions, extreme weather impacts and strikes on nuclear infrastructure in war-torn Iran and Ukraine, UN Member States returned to the core issue of disarmament on Tuesday, closing out the General Assembly’s High-Level Week with calls for greater safeguards.

The Security Council met in New York on the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Tuesday, where clashes between Government forces and M23 rebels continue in the east, despite a series of peace agreements. Ambassadors focused on ceasefire monitoring, rising tensions between the DRC and Rwanda and the country’s worst Ebola outbreak on record, which has killed more than 3,900 people.  

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), health workers fighting the country’s largest-ever Ebola outbreak are struggling to overcome critical challenges to patient care, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Tuesday.

Heavy fighting in Yemen is fuelling concerns of an uptick in cholera, measles and other preventable diseases, as overcrowding at displacement sites threatens to overwhelm the limited healthcare services still open.

Afetado por inundações extremas e inflação global, arquipélago protege biodiversidade marinha enquanto enfrenta bloqueio de fundos climáticos; ministra Ilza Maria dos Santos exige parcerias e defende que conta da crise não recaia sobre países que menos poluem.

Cada português desperdiça 183 kg de comida por ano; Dia Internacional da Consciencialização sobre Perdas e Desperdício Alimentar celebra-se este 29 de setembro; iniciativa garante anonimato dos beneficiados.

After six days of speeches from the UN General Assembly podium, one word rose above all others: peace.
  This final edition of The Takeaway distils the messages he said reverberated through the Assembly Hall and looks at where the 193-member body goes from here.
 

“No country is free of racism.” That warning from US youth activist Marley Dias set the tone on Monday as UN Member States reinvigorated global efforts against racism, discrimination and xenophobia with a new declaration.

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) told the UN General Assembly on Monday that its status as a nuclear-armed State was irreversible, arguing that its military capabilities were necessary to safeguard the country’s sovereignty and maintain peace on the Korean Peninsula.

South Sudan remains committed to holding general elections in December to conclude its transition period, the country’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Cecilia Adout Majok Adeng, told the General Assembly on Monday, calling for all sanctions, including the arms embargo to be lifted. 

The continuing conflict in the Middle East is disrupting global energy markets and pushing up fuel prices, with knock-on effects far beyond the region.

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) told the UN General Assembly on Monday that its status as a nuclear-armed State was irreversible, arguing that its military capabilities were necessary to safeguard the country’s sovereignty and maintain peace on the Korean Peninsula.

Conseil de sécurité, ressources naturelles, intelligence artificielle. À la tribune de l’Assemblée générale, plusieurs dirigeants d’Afrique francophone ont décliné ces derniers jours une même frustration. Celle d’un ordre international qui, plus de 80 ans après la création de l’ONU, continue selon eux de distribuer inégalement le pouvoir, les richesses et le droit de fixer les règles.

L’ONU a appelé lundi à une désescalade urgente dans le nord de l’Éthiopie, alors que la dégradation de la situation sécuritaire perturbe l’aide humanitaire et fait craindre une aggravation du conflit.