• $5 million allocated to Haiti amidst surging gang violence
• World Humanitarian Day commemorated
• WHO pushes Ebola treatments to boost survival

• In Ukraine, UN Chief reflects on importance of civil society
• Afghanistan: deadly attack in Kabul Mosque
• Remembering Kofi Annan

• UN human rights chief visits Bangladesh
• Floods in Yemen
• Yemen: Controlling locusts

• First UN chartered ship carrying wheat for Africa leaves Ukraine 
• UN envoy travels to Myanmar for the first time
• New UN climate chief appointed

• One year since Taliban takeover women and children suffer
• UN chartered ship carrying wheat to Ethiopia leaves Ukraine 
• Fifth attempt to pass UN Oceans Treaty begins in New York

Okubani Market is located in northern Uganda’s Yumbe District, within the Bidibidi refugee settlement which, during the South Sudan civil war, was the largest settlement of its kind in the world.

• Ukraine: first UN aid ship due to dock and load up with grain
• Attacks on Ukraine health care continue, warns WHO
• Funding gap for UN’s humanitarian operations is biggest ever, warns OCHA

• Guterres warning on Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant
• Young workers have been hit hardest by COVID fallout, says UN labour agency
• UN rights chief Bachelet alarmed at number of Palestinian children killed in new escalation

After two years of incredible gains, the prices of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have plunged in recent months; and more turbulence is likely, according to the UN trade and development agency, UNCTAD.

In its latest podcast, the Geneva-based agency is talking about cryptocurrencies with economist Marina Zucker of UNCTAD’s debt and development finance branch.

• UN chief expresses solidarity with Republic of Korea after deadly floods
• Ukraine: UN ups aid appeal to cater for 2 million more in need of aid
• 10,000 Da’esh fighters estimated to operate on Syria-Iraq border