The World Food Programme (WFP) warns that food assistance for more than 130,000 refugees in Burundi risks drawing down unless funding is received. WFP urgently needs $35 million to sustain food and nutrition support for refugees through August 2027. Without new resources, life-saving food distributions will end in October.
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks to the International Law Commission, in Geneva today:
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message for the Ninth World Congress against the Death Penalty, in Paris today:
Amid its review of the entity tasked with concluding the functions of two landmark international criminal courts, speakers in the Security Council today alternately highlighted the need to safeguard the legacy at stake and finalize the work of a mechanism always envisioned as temporary.
Briefing the Security Council on the International Criminal Court’s work in Libya, its Deputy Prosecutor today said recent judicial proceedings, including the confirmation hearing of Khaled Mohamed Ali El Hishri, have brought victims “some measure of justice, of healing”, while urging stronger cooperation to secure arrests and advance accountability for war crimes, crimes against humanity and abuses against migrants.
UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher, has allocated up to $60 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund to expedite the response to the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the wider region. A first tranche of $10 million has just been released for activities.
In Sudan, the UN and aid partners are rushing to contain multiple disease outbreaks despite insecurity and limited access. The World Health Organization is responding to a suspected outbreak of acute watery diarrhoea in West Kordofan State, where there are over 100 suspected cases and dozens of associated deaths.
The following statement by UN Secretary-General António Guterres was issued today:
