UN News Today

UN News Today 30 October 2026

• Yemen: Aid out of reach as conflict intensifies – UNHCR • $50 million appeal to help nine million people endure winter months • Israel’s ‘yellow line’ in Gaza is a ‘kil

UN News Today 29 October 2026

• Haitians in grip of a deepening hunger crisis • Yemen: WHO reports essential medicines reach Taiz City hospitals • Afghanistan opium production jumps fivefold as farmer

UN News Today 28 October 2026

• UNHCR alarm as Ethiopia violence forces thousands into Kenya • Yemen: Fighting drives displacement in Taiz amid worsening conditions, says OCHA • Global warming is an i

UN News Today 27 October 2026

• Record greenhouse gas concentrations raise climate alarm • Ebola vaccine trial raises “hope” in DR Congo • UNHCR urges continued support as Ukraine braces for winter

UN News Today 26 October 2026

• Guterres warns against a new US-Iran escalation • Ebola frontline nurse killed in DR Congo • Ukraine probe insists Russia committed war crimes in attacks on civilians

UN News Today 23 October 2026

• Yemen: deepening fears for people trapped in Taiz City: OCHA, UNICEF • Don’t forget Sudan’s El Fasher survivors, one year since city fell: UN Women • DR Congo Ebola out

UN News Today 22 October 2026

• Ebola contact tracing ongoing in Nigeria • Ukraine capital targeted in more Russian strikes • Unlawful deaths of older people ‘alarmingly under-reported’

UN News Today 21 October 2026

• El Niño ‘wrecking ball’ need not be a humanitarian disaster • Global warming will breach 1.5℃ – but deep, fast cuts can still bring it back • Sudan war: Peace efforts r

UN News Today 20 October 2026

• Yemen war closes in on densely populated Taiz City • Afghanistan: worsening hunger outlook for millions • 8 in 10 deaths caused by preventable diseases

UN News Today 19 October 2026

• Protecting earth’s biodiversity in spotlight at COP17 in Armenia • Gaza: Funding cuts leave half a million without food assistance • Lebanon: UNIFIL peacekeepers conti

UN News Today 16 October 2026

• More than one million species face extinction, warns UN chief at COP17 • Gaza: 340 children killed despite so-called ceasefire, says UNICEF • Yemen war has now displac

UN News Today 15 October 2026

• Second case of Ebola confirmed in Kenya amid ongoing transmission in DR Congo • UN health agency urges global push to end lead exposure which kills 3.5 million annuall

UN News Today 14 October 2026

• Ukrainians targeted in another night of deadly Russian attacks: OCHA • AI tool unveiled to help health workers tackle taboos over drinking: WHO • Ethiopia: Aid access

UN News Today 13 October 2026

• $228 billion damage to homes from tsunamis, flooding and tremors: UNDRR • Gazan farmers confronting danger to grow crops in war-torn enclave: FAO • WHO supports call fo

UN News Today 12 October 2026

• New devastating flooding disaster hits Nepal – UNICEF • ‘Efficiency has limits’: UNHCR chief warns refugee protection is buckling under cuts • Bridge Valdés Press freed

UN News Today 09 October 2026

• Nobel Peace Prize awarded to former UN human rights chief Navi Pillay • Nepal flooding disaster could happen again without international support -UNICEF • Gaza: Almost

UN News Today 08 October 2026

• Myanmar’s spiral into poverty: UNDP • On World Sight Day, cheap reading glasses still out of reach: WHO • 235,000 Gazans living hundreds of flood-prone sites

UN News Today 07 October 2026

• Two in three child migrants travel alone to Europe • Ebola alert: WHO chief voices solidarity with Kenya and Uganda after patient dies in Nairobi • Yemen health funding

UN News Today 06 October 2026

• “Nothing can justify” 7 October attacks: Guterres • In Pakistan, UN chief calls for end to US-Iran war • Ebola robs children of the people they depend on: UNICEF

UN News Today 05 October 2026

• Sudan: Driver killed in aerial attack on clearly marked aid trucks in South Kordofan • 3.4 billion people across the globe lack adequate housing, which the UN calls a c