Huang Xia, the Secretary-General's Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region, briefed the Security Council on fighting, displacement, hunger and Ebola in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Council members urged that diplomatic gains be turned into change on the ground.
The Secretary-General's spokesman said UN agencies and partners have given emergency help to nearly 148,000 people since August. The World Health Organization (WHO) says cholera is surging as 200,000 people have been displaced.
The UN aid coordination office says recent Russian strikes on Ukraine’s two largest cities damaged homes and civilian infrastructure. Ukraine’s president gave figures for the dead and injured in Kharkiv.
António Guterres told the General Assembly’s Fifth Committee that the cut comes with 14 senior posts abolished or downgraded. He said efficiency alone cannot fix the UN’s cash shortage and asked member states to pay in full and on time.
The International Organization for Migration says fewer people from four West African countries reached Europe by sea in the first half of 2026. Recorded deaths and disappearances on the Atlantic route to the Canary Islands were almost the same as the year before.
The UN Development Programme launched an Investment Accelerator and a Jobs for Prosperity Facility. Its Administrator, Alexander De Croo, said the jobs gap is a projection that policy can change.