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The United Nations top political affairs official said, “it is the right of a sovereign state to launch a satellite and to benefit from space activities. However, Council resolutions expressly prohibit the DPRK from conducting any launches using ballistic missile technology.” UNIFEED

The trafficking of illegal narcotics, precursor chemicals, timber and wildlife, people and illicit goods across Southeast Asia is being tackled thanks to the support of the specialized UN agency focusing on drugs and crime (UNODC). UNIFEED

The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sudan, Volker Perthes, said that the increased suffering of the people in the country “is not a result of aid organizations not being there or aid organizations not doing anything. The suffering of the people is a result of a war.” UNIFEED / FILE

Despite the protracted challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic, political instability and funding shortfalls, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East has continued to deliver its essential work to provide health care services to Palestine refugees in 2022 across the Agency’s five fields of operation Jordan, Lebanon, the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, Gaza and Syria. UNTV CH

Sudan’s Ambassador Al-Harith Idriss Al-Harith Mohamed said the humanitarian situation in the country “has deteriorated and is getting worse,” and denied the Sudanese Armed forces are breaching ceasefire agreements. UNIFEED

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warned on Friday that cyclone Mocha has intensified very quickly in the warm waters of the Bay of Bengal and could bring major impacts both ahead and after landfall for potentially hundreds of thousands of the world’s most vulnerable people when it hits Myanmar and Bangladesh this weekend. UNTV CH

The Human Rights Council today opened a special session on the human rights impact of the ongoing conflict in Sudan, hearing the High Commissioner for Human Rights strongly condemn the wanton violence taking place in the country in which both sides had trampled international humanitarian law. UNTV CH

The UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR and partners scale up aid efforts to reach more people escaping conflict in Sudan. Over 30,000 refugees have so far been verified, physically counted and identified in Chad as registration exercises continue. UNHCR

The number of internally displaced persons in Sudan had more than doubled in the last week, and more than 700’000 people were now internally displaced since armed clashes erupted between the Sudanese Army Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in multiple cities across Sudan, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said today. UNTV CH