• UN experts call for urgent action to end racial discrimination, in wake of New Zealand attack
• ‘Massive and protracted’ humanitarian crisis in DR Congo can be ‘beaten back’ if donors step up
• Idai disaster: Stranded victims still need rescue from heavy rains as UN scales up response

• Humanitarian emergency getting bigger by the hour, warns UN food agency
• DRC’s election of President Tshisekedi 'a momentous transition moment'
• Mali violence ‘is worsening’ for civilian in centre and north, warns rights expert

* First aid in nine months unloaded at key port in Yemen

* Response to Tropical Cyclone Idai ramps up as 1.5 million forced to flee

* Half of health zones in DR Congo's Ebola-hit areas, show no new cases 

• Damage to the planet poses growing risk to human health
• 260,000 children in DRC facing acute malnutrition
• Syria still living on ‘razor edge’