Papua New Guinea

The Secretary-General has approved a request by Papua New Guinea to renew eligibility for the Peacebuilding Fund’s Peacebuilding and Recovery Facility until the end of 2030 to advance joint UN-Government efforts in the context of the Bougainville post-referendum peace process.

On Tuesday, 2 September, the Secretary-General arrived in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. He travelled to the country at the invitation of Prime Minister, James Marape to take part in events to mark the fiftieth anniversary of Papua New Guinea’s independence.

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the UN and humanitarian partners are supporting the Government-led response following the declaration on 4 September of a new Ebola outbreak in Kasai Province, in the country’s centre-west. Preliminary figures from authorities indicate 28 suspected cases; that includes 15 fatalities.

The de facto authorities in Afghanistan are now reporting 2,205 people killed and 3,640 people injured in the recent earthquake, with some 84,000 people impacted and 6,700 households destroyed. The UN and its partners are continuing to scale up the response.

A United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) recent analysis warns that as global education funding faces steep cuts, an estimated 6 million additional children could be out of school by the end of 2026, around one third of them in humanitarian settings.

Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks to the Parliament of Papua New Guinea, in Port Moresby, today:

A report published today by the UN Human Rights Office shows that between the 2021 military coup and 20 August 2025, credible sources have verified the killing of some 7,100 people by the military in Myanmar, a third of them were women and children.

The new Permanent Representative of Papua New Guinea to the United Nations, Fred Sarufa presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General António Guterres today.

Results from the Global We the Women survey, produced by the UN Office for Partnerships and the polling company John Zogby Strategies, show that 86 per cent of women from 185 countries cite climate change and more than 50 per cent identify conflict as primary concerns for the next decade.

In Bangladesh, prior to the anticipated landfall of a cyclone in the southern parts of the country, the World Food Programme (WFP) swiftly dispatched cash assistance to 30,000 families — about 150,000 people — most at risk, as part of WFP’s flagship programme “Anticipatory Action” for climate shocks.