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[UN: April 17] Iran Reopens Strait of Hormuz, Lebanon Ceasefire & Lots More

This Week @UN: UN aid “reset”; upcoming SecGen candidate debates; crucial peacekeeping in South Sudan. Plus: Praising US-Iran talks; Trump’s Pope-bashing; UN envoy in Riyadh & Oman; peacenik Pope; World Bank “borrowers’ platform”; Lebanon breathes; ICJ’s birthday. Follow us on …

UN humanitarian relief chief, Tom Fletcher

Has the UN Aid ‘Reset’ Made the System Better or Worse?, Experts Ask

As the global humanitarian sector grapples with the fallout from sweeping aid cuts imposed in 2025 by the United States administration of Donald Trump and other major donors, a United Nations plan to “reset” the system, unveiled a year ago, …

Luke Lindberg

Trump Nominates an ‘America First’ Advocate to Lead the UN’s World Food Program

The United States has nominated Luke Lindberg, the undersecretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs in the Department of Agriculture, to lead the Rome-based World Food Program, the largest humanitarian agency globally. Lindberg, who lives in South Dakota, most recently …

Pekka Haavisto meets Gen Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan

[UN: March 27] New UN Mideast Envoy, SecGen Race Upsets & Lots More

This Week @UN: Finances of SecGen race; Mideast wars’ toll on kids; “the gravest crime against humanity”; glass ceiling/glass cliff. Plus: Crushing Lebanon; new envoy goes to Khartoum; a new Mideast envoy; helping Cuba; UN SecGen upsets; Strait of Hormuz …

[Feb. 20: UN] Board of Peace Rock ‘n’ Roll, Royal Epstein Fallout & Lots More

This Week @UN: Fixing e-waste economies; US cuts counterextremism funding; UN Security Council’s doubts about Trump’s Board of Peace. Plus: Gaza/West Bank miseries; Jesse Jackson @UN; Board of Peace debut; defending Francesca Albanese; more Epstein “atrocities”; AI dignity; 1 country/4 …

[UN: Feb. 13] New Flareups Over Francesca Albanese, Norwegian Diplomacy Takes a Hit & Lots More

This Week @UN: UK’s women’s rights agenda; battling for a woman SecGen; Board of Peace’s only Palestinian woman. Plus: West Bank encroachments; South Sudan’s volatility; Ukraine’s front line; France lashes out; Haiti’s gang recruitments; #1 olive oil producer. • Stay …

[UN: Jan. 30] Spain Calls for a Woman to Lead UN, Guterres’s Stark Warning & Lots More

This Week @UN: Trump to UN: Drop Dead; a female/feminist SecGen; a UN-merger risk. Plus: Gaza/West Bank/Israel; Holocaust remembrance; UN-Haiti updates; Guterres’s priorities in 2026; UN death spiral. Follow us in real time on Blue Sky, Twitter (X), Facebook, Instagram …

[UN: Jan. 23] Israel Crushes UN Compound, the $108 Billion Pension Fund & Lots More

This Week @UN: A crimes against humanity treaty; Latvia finds its voice; Israel’s UN attack; UN pension review; Gazans adapt to South Africa. Plus: Trump & Gaza; UNDP relos; Greenland/Denmark; Microsoft’s AI push; Syria’s Al Hol camp. Stay current (& …

[UN: Jan. 16] US Board of Peace Members, Big Job Opening & Lots More

This Week @UN: Fighting for postwar justice; European backlash on human rights; the case against military growth; where are the SecGen candidates? Plus: Rage in Iran; Myanmar clashes; Guterres’s final priorities; Trumpland v Greenland; US Board of Peace; UK hoopla. …

Türkiye to Open an UNRWA Office in Ankara as the Agency Confronts Operating Crises

Türkiye has been providing financial support to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) since its founding in 1949. The country is now preparing to host the agency’s fifth liaison office, in …

Siham Hassan Hasaballah, a former Sudanese parliamentarian

In Sudan’s Hell, a Glimmer of Light From Charity Volunteers

Almost three years into Sudan’s devastating war, estimates put the death count at over 150,000, more than 21 million people are facing acute hunger and in 2025 alone, of the total population of 46.8 million, a staggering 30.4 million people …

[UN: Dec. 19] Peacekeepers Killed in Sudan & So. Sudan, Congo Mission Renewed & Lots More

This Week @UN: UN person/envoy of the year; Slovenia is exhausted; UN’s AI use. Plus: Sudan; Congo; US/Venezuela; US/ICC; Houthis/UN; Gaza. Follow us daily on Twitter (X), Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Blue Sky • Our #1 story: An Eastern European …

Javid Abdelmoneim at the UN Security Council

[UN: Dec. 12] Refugee-Boss Pick, No Peace in Congo & Lots More

This Week @UN: The dirt on soil; UN SecGen race; questions on UN’s Nairobi hub; WC austerities. Plus: Israel seizes UN compound; UN detainees in Yemen; Israel fires at peacekeepers; US “peace” deal in Congo; fatal flooding in Gaza. Follow …

[UN: Dec. 5] Security Council Visits Lebanon & Syria, Unpaid UN Dues Piling Up & Lots More

This Week @UN: UN crossword, anyone?; Trump targets the Refugee Convention; Slovenia softens on SG race; Russia must return Ukrainian children. Plus: Billions of unpaid UN dues; separate Israeli airstrikes hit Syria and Lebanon; Myanmar #1 in opium; Sudan death …

children at refugee center in Tawila North Darfur

[UN: Nov. 7] It’s Climate-Talks Time; US Moves on Syria and Gaza & Much More

This Week @UN: The next secretary-general?; Sierra Leone toughens up; Syrian leader’s relief; feminist foreign policies suffering; US shakes up the Security Council. Plus: Gaza improvements; trapped & burned in Sudan; Hurricane Melissa; Brazil’s COP30; killing children in the West …

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