United Nations World News

• ‘We watched them die before our eyes’: Sudan health workers helpless amid medical shortages

  As violence forces tens of thousands to flee Sudan’s South Kordofan state, doctors in a key maternity hospital are facing impossible choices – with too few supplies, too many patients, and lives slipping away.

• Deminers race to keep up with military technology

  In conflict zones where new technologies are making landmines more dangerous, deminers must innovate at the same pace to avoid being left behind, a leading UN mines expert has told UN News. 

• World News in Brief: South Sudan rights, opioid guidelines update, DR Congo crisis continues

  South Sudan is evolving into a catastrophic human rights and humanitarian crisis, UN Human Rights Council-appointed independent experts warned on Thursday.

• Guterres warns of ‘wider war’ as Middle East conflict enters second month

  The Middle East crisis has lurched into its second month, prompting UN Secretary-General António Guterres to issue a stark warning on Thursday morning that the world is “on the edge of a wider war” with catastrophic global implications.

• Middle East crisis exposes global energy fault line as UN urges shift to renewables

  The ongoing crisis in the Middle East is exposing a central vulnerability in the global economy: the dependence on fossil fuels flowing through regions affected by conflict, a situation which is strengthening the UN’s case for a faster transition to cheaper, more resilient renewable power.