In Rwanda, the UN and aid partners are supporting a $40 million Government-led preparedness plan against Ebola, through surveillance, laboratory capacity, case management, infection prevention and control, water and sanitation, and risk communication. The UN Central Emergency Response Fund has allocated $2 million.
In Ukraine, attacks over the weekend claimed a dozen civilian lives and injured many more across the country. Warehouses of the World Food Programme (WFP) in Dnipro and the World Health Organization (WHO) near Kyiv sustained damage. The UN and its humanitarian partners delivered 11 metric tons of aid to frontline communities in Kherson.
In Venezuela, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reports that more than 100 aid organizations have carried out over 2,200 activities to help people affected by last month’s earthquakes and to meet preexisting needs, from the delivery of hot meals to the distribution of tents across 14 states.
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reports that efforts to contain the Ebola outbreak are scaling-up following the spread of the disease to two additional provinces: Haut-Uele and Tshopo. Cases in Kisangani highlight the risk of wider transmission along key transport corridors.
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General António Guterres:
A United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) report finds that child food and nutrition insecurity is a primary driver of undernutrition in Afghanistan, placing 3.7 million children under age 5 at increased risk. Recent data show that wasting has worsened across 26 of the country’s 34 provinces, compared with 2025.
The Security Council is set to discuss the implementation of resolution 2231 (2015), which endorsed the 2015 nuclear agreement between Iran and major world Powers, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). A UN official is expected to present the Secretary-General’s latest report on the resolution’s implementation, covering developments since December 2025.
Following the collapse of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal and the region’s chaotic recent military escalations, the United Nations dedicated nuclear agency has “lost continuity of knowledge” about the Iranian nuclear programme it was once tasked with overseeing, the Security Council heard today, in a briefing by the Organization’s senior political affairs officer.
On 6 July, attackers raided an Ebola treatment centre in Butembo, North Kivu, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, setting fire to a facility. Since the outbreak was declared on 15 May, humanitarian partners have recorded security incidents targeting Ebola response personnel and other aid workers in Ituri, South Kivu and North Kivu provinces.
In Uganda, the Secretary-General notes with concern the reported detention of political and civic actors, including cases in which the whereabouts of some individuals have not been established. Freedom of expression, including independence of the media and the rights to liberty and security of person, are enshrined in Uganda’s Constitution, he stated.
