Welcome to my blog: Daily Wrap

Welcome to the United Nations

View in browser

UN News

Global perspective Human stories

Daily Wrap

3 April 2025

Children play football in an empty classroom at the UNICEF-supported Bulengo Primary School in the Bulengo displacement site, near Goma, North Kivu province in DR Congo, on 10 February 2025.

DR Congo: Armed violence displaces thousands as cholera outbreak worsens

Ongoing violence in North and South Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continues to kill, injure and displace civilians, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has warned.

Humanitarian Aid

A displaced family setting up a makeshift shelter in southwest South Sudan. (file)

World News in Brief: Israeli military escalation in Syria, Nicaragua rights probe, South Sudan talks

The UN Special Envoy for Syria has condemned the repeated and intensifying military escalations by Israel in the country, including airstrikes that have caused civilian casualties.

Peace and Security

Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, briefs the Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question.

UN rights chief warns of increasing risk of atrocity crimes in Gaza

The recent killings of 15 medical personnel and humanitarian aid workers in Gaza raise further concerns over the commission of war crimes by the Israeli military, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights told the Security Council on Thursday.

Peace and Security

Children walk through the mud in a displaced persons camp in Maiduguri in northeast Nigeria.

UN envoy urges international support for West Africa and the Sahel

In a briefing to the Security Council on Thursday, the UN Special Representative for West Africa and the Sahel painted a mixed picture of the region, which is facing a growing terrorist threat but also political progress and encouraging initiatives.

Peace and Security

Devastation caused by the earthquake in Mandalay, Myanmar's second largest city.

Myanmar: UN chief calls for urgent access as quake toll mounts

The UN chief on Thursday called for immediate and unrestricted humanitarian access to Myanmar, where last week's devastating earthquakes claimed over 3,000 lives and left millions in urgent need of aid.

Humanitarian Aid

Visualization of Artificial Intelligence combining a human brain schematic with a circuit board.

AI's $4.8 trillion future: UN warns of widening digital divide without urgent action

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is on course to become a $4.8 trillion global market by 2033 – roughly the size of Germany's economy – but unless urgent action is taken, its benefits may remain in the hands of a privileged few, a new UN report warns.

Economic Development

Eighteen months of war have deeply affected urban households in Sudan.

Sudan crisis: UN rights chief condemns extrajudicial killings in Khartoum

The fight for Sudan's capital, Khartoum, likely involved widespread summary executions of civilians following its recent recapture by the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), UN human rights chief Volker Türk said on Thursday.

Human Rights