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The World Food Programme (WFP) is helping the Indonesian Government to expedite, manage, store, and distribute aid supplies in Sulawesi island, affected by the recent earthquake and tsunami. UNIFEED / FILE

Commenting on the migrants’ caravan heading to the United States border, the Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants, Felipe González Morales, said “security concerns should not overshadow the human rights commitments that the US, as any other government, has according to international law.” UNIFEED

UN peacekeeping chief Jean-Pierre Lacroix said the “consensus” between parties to the Malian peace agreement was a “central element” in the successful organization of presidential elections in the country “without major security incidents.” UNIFEED

The UN refugee agency said emergency shelter and relief for thousands of victims of Indonesia’s recent earthquake and tsunami is set to arrive on the island of Sulawesi in the coming days amid reports from staff that the devastation is “beyond imagination." UNTV CH

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)’s new water-gathering and storage systems help rural communities, especially women farmers to combatting drought in Senegal. FAO

The Chair of the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, Bernard Duhaime, said that the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi “is a crime” as well as “a heinous attack against human dignity and is completely against all fundamental principles that govern the United Nations.” UNIFEED

UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nikolay Mladenov said the situation in Gaza is “imploding” adding that the strip was “on the brink of another potentially devastating conflict, a conflict that nobody claims to want, but a conflict that needs much more than just words to prevent.” UNIFEED

Marelis, a Venezuelan who fell serious ill after moving to Peru, was benefited from the residence card which grants her access to the public health system in the country. UNHCR

Russia and Turkey have said that they will allow “more time” for opposition groups to withdraw from a de-escalation zone in Syria’s Idlib, which has been spared air raids for more than a month, a senior humanitarian adviser to the UN said today. UNTV CH

A new report on the conflict in South Sudan’s Western region of Equatoria is characterised by a hallmark of abductions, forced child soldier recruits and sexual slavery of girls as young as 12 years old. OHCHR