"ARMED GROUPS"

Iraq’s people still awaiting political class capable of addressing critical domestic challenges, top official tells Security Council.

Michelle Bachelet, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said at the Human Rights Council’s special session on Ukraine that her Office continues to verify allegations of violations of international human rights law and of international humanitarian law, many of which may amount to war crimes. UNTV CH

At the bi-weekly press briefing on Tuesday, Matilda Bogner, Head of the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, briefed journalists on the violations perpetrated in the past two months in Ukraine. UNTV CH

Briefing by Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

Third humanitarian convoy under way to evacuate civilians from besieged Ukraine city, Secretary-General tells Security Council.

A day after visiting Maiduguri, in embattled Borno State, Secretary-General António Guterres today (4 May) met with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja and said, “violence continues to cast the shadow of death over so many Nigerians,” but added that he “came out of Borno with the sense that Nigeria is able to defeat this threat.” UNIFEED

Briefing by Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General. Virtual guest: Humanitarian Coordinator in Ukraine Osnat Lubrani.

The number of terrorist attacks in the Sahel region of Africa “continues to increase” according to Secretary-General António Guterres, who arrived in the capital of Niger, Niamey, the second of three countries he is visiting on a tour of West Africa to mark the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. UNIFEED

Briefing by Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

Briefing by Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.