Africa

UNMISS/Nektarios Markogiannis

UN chief welcomes decision to delay formation of South Sudan unity government

12 November 2019
Peace and Security

The UN Secretary-General has welcomed the decision to push back the deadline for the formation of a unity Government in South Sudan.

UN Photo/Marco Castro

Egypt: ‘Credible evidence’ that ‘brutal’ prison conditions prompted Morsi’s death, thousands more at risk

8 November 2019
Human Rights

A group of independent UN human rights experts said on Friday that there was “credible evidence” that inadequate prison conditions in which former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi was held may have led “directly” to his death in June, and thousands of other detainees may be at “severe risk”.

OCHA/Otto Bakano

Guterres says justice must be done following deadly Burkina Faso convoy attack

7 November 2019
Peace and Security

Authorities in Burkina Faso must “do everything in their power” to bring to justice the perpetrators of an attack on a mining company convoy in the West African nation on Wednesday, which killed dozens and left scores more injured, the UN chief said on Thursday. 

MINUSMA/Marco Dormino

UN peacekeepers warn of increasing global challenges

7 November 2019
Peace and Security

Organized crime, breakdowns in law and order, and attacks by extremists, are examples of the challenges faced by UN peacekeepers, the Security Council was told on Wednesday, during a briefing by senior UN Police Commissioners, and UN Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix.

ICC

‘Terminator’ warlord Bosco Ntaganda sentenced to 30 years in prison for DR Congo atrocities

7 November 2019
Law and Crime Prevention

The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday handed down a maximum 30-year prison sentence for mass murder and numerous other atrocities, to Bosco Ntaganda, the heaviest sanction yet imposed by judges at The Hague, in the Netherlands.

WHO Sudan

Cholera prevention efforts underway to protect millions in Sudan’s Khartoum state

6 November 2019
Health

A campaign has got underway to prevent the spread of a deadly cholera outbreak to Sudan’s populous Khartoum state, home to more than eight million people, UN medics said on Wednesday.

© UNICEF/Tanya Bindra

Tuesday’s Daily Brief: Cameroon crisis deepens, Tsunami Awareness Day, online gender gap, Somalia floods leave children vulnerable

5 November 2019
Climate Change

A recap of Tuesday’s top stories: Humanitarian needs in Cameroon up 15-fold from 2017; UN risk reduction chief calls for more resilient cities; Somalia’s floods put 200,000 children at risk; Internet use study reveals growing gender gap; UN partners spotlight youth mental health. 

© UNICEF/Tanya Bindra

Nearly two million Cameroonians face humanitarian emergency: UNICEF

5 November 2019
Humanitarian Aid

Ongoing violence in Cameroon’s northwest and southwest has created a fast-growing humanitarian emergency now affecting some 1.9 million people, a “15-fold increase since 2017”, UN humanitarians said on Tuesday.

UNSOM/John Arigi

Unity, regional cooperation and international support needed for Horn of Africa to develop sustainably 

4 November 2019
Peace and Security

The road ahead “will not be easy” for the Horn of Africa, UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed said on Monday, briefing the Security Council on her Joint Solidarity Mission with the African Union (AU) at the end of October. 

IOM South Sudan

UN migration agency appeals to South Sudan group to free volunteer worker and child

1 November 2019
Health

The UN migration agency appealed on Friday for the immediate liberation of a volunteer and child who’ve been missing since a gun battle in South Sudan at the weekend that claimed the lives of three agency workers.