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UN warns copper shortage risks slowing global energy and technology shift

1 day 3 hours ago Breadcrumb Home UN warns copper shortage risks slowing global energy and technology shift 09 May 2025 © ILO/Bobot Go A worker in the Philippines installs a new electric cable atop a pylon. High-tension power lines made of copper are the backbone of electricity infrastructure worldwide. A looming global copper shortage could stall the world’s transition to clean energy and digital technologies unless smarter…

More than 50 million in West and Central Africa at risk of hunger

1 day 3 hours ago Breadcrumb Home More than 50 million in West and Central Africa at risk of hunger 09 May 2025 © WFP/Lena von Zabern Oumalis Abdraman and her six-month-old baby arrived from Western Darfur in Koulbus where they received WFP treatment against for malnutrition. The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that millions of people in West and Central Africa are facing record hunger as conflict, displacement,…

UNFPA calls on US to reconsider ban on future funding

1 day 3 hours ago Breadcrumb Home UNFPA calls on US to reconsider ban on future funding 09 May 2025 UNFPA Myanmar A UNFPA staff member distributes relief supplies to a woman affected by the March earthquakes in Myanmar. The United States’ decision to halt future funding to the UN sexual and reproductive health agency, UNFPA, will slash critical health services for women and girls worldwide, the agency warned on Friday…

Haiti: Displaced families grapple with death ‘from the inside’ and out

1 day 3 hours ago Breadcrumb Home Haiti: Displaced families grapple with death ‘from the inside’ and out 09 May 2025 © UNICEF/Herold Josep A child displaced by violence in city of Mirebalais, Haiti, draws a picture of their new home. Shattered by her husband’s death during the rising tide of gang violence in Haiti last year, Christiana and her six children fled 223 kilometres from their hometown to the city of Mirebalais,…

World News in Brief: ‘Massive’ needs in Sudan, DR Congo aid shortfall, support for Congolese refugees and Angola cholera relief

1 day 3 hours ago Breadcrumb Home World News in Brief: ‘Massive’ needs in Sudan, DR Congo aid shortfall, support for Congolese refugees and Angola cholera relief 09 May 2025 © UNICEF/Mohammed Jamal Families that fled fighting in Zamzam and El Fasher in North Darfur, seek refuge in Tawila. UN humanitarian teams have completed a mission to the Sudanese town of Tawila to provide life-saving assistance for civilians recently…

Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions Secretariat Press Conference

1 day 17 hours ago Breadcrumb Home Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions Secretariat Press Conference 09 May 2025 Press Conference Announcement Rolph Payet, Executive Secretary of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions David Ogden, Deputy Executive Secretary of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm ConventionsChristine Fuell, Executive Secretary, ad interim, of the Rotterdam Convention

UN rights body rules Guatemala failed displaced Mayan Peoples

2 days 3 hours ago Breadcrumb Home UN rights body rules Guatemala failed displaced Mayan Peoples 08 May 2025 Unsplash/Arturo Rivera A street vendor in Antigua, Guatemala. The UN Human Rights Committee has found that Guatemala did not follow through on promises to resettle and compensate Mayan Peoples who remain forcibly displaced.…

Guterres welcomes election of Pope Leo ‘at a time of great global challenges’

2 days 3 hours ago Breadcrumb Home Guterres welcomes election of Pope Leo ‘at a time of great global challenges’ 08 May 2025 UN News/Laura Quiñones St. Peter's Square, Vatican City. UN Secretary-General António Guterres welcomed the announcement of a new Pope on Thursday.  His Holiness Pope Leo XIV – born Robert Francis…

‘She cries in her sleep’: Deeper crisis looms beneath devastation from Myanmar quake

2 days 3 hours ago Breadcrumb Home ‘She cries in her sleep’: Deeper crisis looms beneath devastation from Myanmar quake 08 May 2025 © UNFPA Yu Yu, a midwife, provides care for a newborn baby and the mother after her delivery in an emergency. An estimated 3,800 people have died as a result of the devastating earthquakes that struck Myanmar on 28 March. Six weeks on, the situation in Myanmar remains dire, with whole…

World News in Brief: South Sudan urged to avoid slide to war, Türk calls on EU not to weaken landmark law, Ukraine and Mali updates

2 days 3 hours ago Breadcrumb Home World News in Brief: South Sudan urged to avoid slide to war, Türk calls on EU not to weaken landmark law, Ukraine and Mali updates 08 May 2025 UNMISS/Nektarios Markogiannis Une famille a trouvé refuge dans une ancienne base de la MINUSS dans le sud-ouest du Soudan du Sud (Archives) The UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) together with the African Union mission there, and other…