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Daily Wrap 12 November 2025

'A wave of truth': COP30 targets disinformation threat to climate action Negotiators in Belém, Brazil, opened COP30 with a stark warning: the race to avert catastrophic global heating is being sabotaged by a surge of climate disinformation. The falsehoods, spreading faster than ever online, threaten to derail fragile progress on climate action. Read more Climate and Environment UN and African Union vow closer action for peace and development The UN Secretary-General called on Wednesday for action to prioritize Africa, urging the world not to turn its back on the continent.  Read more UN Affairs TB cases fall for first time since pandemic Tuberculosis, or TB, remains one of the world's deadliest infectious killers, claiming over 1.2 million lives and affecting an estimated 10.7 million people last year, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday.  Read more Health At-risk mountain vipers and iguanas, in rare company at key wildlife talks Renewed efforts to protect the world's most exotic and endangered animals and plants from illegal traders, overexploitation and extinction are set to begin at UN-partnered biodiversity talks in Uzbekistan at the end of the month. Read more Climate and Environment Sudan: Migration chief hears horrific accounts of exodus from El Fasher Some 90,000 people have been displaced following the fall of El Fasher in Sudan's North Darfur - with another 50,000 fleeing violence in the Kordofans, according to the UN migration chief. Read more Humanitarian Aid World News in Brief: Gaza latest, Americas loses measles-free status, tornado recovery in Brazil At least 600,000 litres of desperately needed diesel fuel has managed to enter the Gaza Strip in less than a week, UN aid coordinators OCHA said in an update. Read more Humanitarian Aid Ukrainian civilian casualties rise 27 per cent compared to last year Civilian casualties in Ukraine were 27 per cent higher from January to October 2025, compared to the same period last year, according to the latest UN human rights report on the situation in the eastern European country.  Read more Peace and Security Millions of lives at risk, warn UN food agencies, as hunger crisis worsens The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and World Food Programme (WFP) warn of a major hunger emergency, with acute food insecurity set to worsen in 16 countries and territories between now and May 2026, putting millions of lives at risk. Read more Humanitarian Aid Latest deadly shipwreck highlights need for safer migration Forty-two people are missing and presumed dead following a shipwreck off Libya – the latest fatal crossing in the Central Mediterranean, where more than 1,000 lives have been lost this year.  Read more Migrants and Refugees Stand your ground: How one community in Brazil is coping with rising tides For more than 40 years Ivanil lived in a house raised on stilts just 20 metres from the water's edge, in the same community where she was born, on Marajó Island where the Amazon River meets the Atlantic Ocean in northern Brazil.  Read more Climate and Environment

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