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Daily Wrap 30 October 2025

'Blood on the sand. Blood on the hands': UN decries world's failure as Sudan's El Fasher falls El Fasher has "descended into an even darker hell," senior UN officials warned on Thursday, as the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia seized control of the North Darfur capital after a 500-day siege, forcing tens of thousands to flee on foot amid reports of mass executions, rape and starvation. Read more Peace and Security 'Normalising' Taliban rule would betray Afghan women, warns UN expert Governments moving to restore ties with the Taliban risk legitimising oppression and deepening Afghanistan's crisis, an independent UN human rights expert cautioned on Thursday, calling for a principled approach that defends the rights of women and girls. Read more Human Rights Hurricane Melissa leaves thousands displaced across the Caribbean Hurricane Melissa has left a trail of devastation after crossing Jamaica, Cuba and the Bahamas, with severe effects also felt in Haiti, the Dominican Republic and parts of Central America, the UN aid coordination office (UNOCHA) reported on Thursday.  Read more Humanitarian Aid World News in Brief: Ukraine energy targeted, nuclear proliferation warning, rights violations in Nicaragua Russian armed forces conducted another large-scale combined attack across Ukraine in the early hours of Thursday, reportedly targeting critical energy infrastructure, said the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission for Ukraine. Read more Peace and Security UN Envoy hails Colombia's peace process as global model, calls for more funding The newly appointed Head of the UN Verification Mission in Colombia, Miroslav Jenča, has praised the country's peace process as "a global model," while urging greater financial support to strengthen the Mission's work. Read more Peace and Security 'Repeated bouts of violence' put Syria rebuilding at risk: Independent rights investigator Incidents of mass killings and torture in post-Assad Syria are tempering early optimism about the transitional government's ability to put an end to entrenched cycles of violence, the head of the UN-mandated independent investigative body on Syria said on Thursday. Read more Peace and Security Security Council LIVE: Ambassadors meet in emergency session on Sudan Reports of mass atrocities in and around the newly-captured city of El Fasher in Darfur mark a new low in Sudan's brutal civil war and the Security Council met in emergency session on Thursday morning in New York to address the rapidly deteriorating situation. Civilians are facing starvation and mass displacement as the UN continues providing lifesaving aid throughout the country. Follow our in-depth live coverage; UN News app users can go here. Read more Peace and Security

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