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A new UN early warning report has found that acute food insecurity is set to potentially increase in magnitude and severity in 18 hunger “hotspots” comprising 22 countries. WFP

In August last year, Lieutenant-General Mohan Subramanian, deployed to South Sudan as Force Commander of UNMISS, leading more than 17,000 Blue Helmets in the world’s newest nation, as they work to protect civilians and usher in a lasting peace. Since taking on this difficult role, he’s faced several challenges head on. UNMISS

The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, presented his annual report to Member States at the 76th World Health Assembly, saying that the end of COVID-19 as a public health emergency of international concern is “a moment of relief and reflection.” WHO

The Global Report on Food Crises 2023 estimates that over a quarter of a billion people were acutely food-insecure and required urgent food assistance in 58 food-crisis countries and territories in 2022. This is the highest number in the seven-year history of the GRFC, the report says. UNIFEED

The situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question Reports of the Secretary-General on the Sudan and South Sudan.

Petteri Taalas, Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization, said that negative trends in weather patterns may continue until the 2060s “independently of our success in climate mitigation.” UNTV CH

Security Council Examines Risks of Illicit Weapons Exports, Hears International Instruments Are Paramount, in Debate on Arms Control

A new water infrastructure network in Northern Pakistan has transformed the lives of the people living there. In spite of record hot temperatures, some small- scale farmers in the region have seen their crop yields dramatically increase in the last year thanks to the new project. IFAD

The Chair of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Council of Foreign Ministers, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, told reporters, “Islamic rights enshrine women's rights, that there is no space for groups such as those in Afghanistan or anywhere else to claim that Islam justifies their actions.” UNIFEED