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16 February 2026

A woman farmer in a straw hat harvests rice in a lush, terraced field surrounded by mountains under a clear blue sky.

UN forum calls for overhaul of agrifood systems

Rising food prices and declining farm incomes are putting increasing pressure on the global food system, with up to 720 million people facing hunger last year, and billions more struggling to afford healthy diets.

SDGs

An aerial view of severe damage caused by Cyclone Gezani in Toamasina, Madagascar, showing destroyed buildings, flooded streets, and disrupted infrastructure following the cyclone's landfall.

World News in Brief: Madagascar hunger crisis, Colombia aid appeal, Cuba fuel shortages

Back-to-back cyclones in Madagascar have left more than 400,000 people in need of food assistance, according to estimates by the UN World Food Programme (WFP), while roads, power lines and homes have been severely damaged.

Humanitarian Aid

Children stand on a home demolished in Beit Sira, a Palestinian village in the central West Bank.

Guterres deplores Israel's move to resume land registration in the West Bank

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has condemned Israel's decision to resume land registration procedures in a large part of the occupied West Bank, his Spokesman said on Monday.

Peace and Security

A four-year-old girl named Alika carries firewood in snowy conditions outside a house in the Kyiv region, Ukraine, to help light a wood-burning stove for warmth after being displaced by missile strikes.

As conditions worsen in Ukraine, refugees struggle to return

As Ukraine prepares to enter the fifth year of the full-scale Russian invasion on 24 February, UN monitors say harm to civilians has "demonstrably worsened", while energy attacks and freezing temperatures are making it harder for displaced families to return.

Human Rights

A coastal village on Fale Island in Fakaofo Atoll, Tokelau, with houses and palm trees under a cloudy sky, surrounded by ocean waves.

UN chief urges renewed push to complete decolonization as 17 territories remain

More than 60 years after the UN launched its formal decolonization drive, Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday urged renewed commitment to completing the unfinished business of ending colonial rule.

Peace and Security

Mothers feed their children with ready-to-use-therapeutic food (RUTF) at a UNICEF-supported nutrition center in Tawila, North Darfur, Sudan, as part of a campaign to screen and treat malnutrition among children under five.

Sudan: Thousands cling to a fragile hope in makeshift tents

The Tawila camp for internally displaced in Sudan's war-torn Darfur region is home to more than half a million people who live in makeshift huts of sticks, hay and plastic sheeting.

Humanitarian Aid