"CONFLICT SITUATION"

The Security Council issued statements expressing “grave concern about the level of food insecurity in South Sudan” and at the recent attacks in Saada, Yemen by Saudi-led coalition forces. UNIFEED

Concerned about terrorism, organized crime in West Africa, Security Council stresses regional office needs adequate resources for conflict prevention at 8327th meeting.

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

Informal comments to the media by Karen Pierce, Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations and the President of the Security Council for the month of August, on the situation concerning Georgia.

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

The head of the United Nations mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) David Shearer said he was “horrified” by violent attacks and the looting of the humanitarian compounds in the town of Bunj on 23 July. UNMISS

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

United Nations is “concerned over reports of continued violence in Syria’s Idlib governorate causing civilian deaths and destruction of civilian infrastructure.” UNIFEED

A Spokesperson for Secretary-General António Guterres clarified that Russian military police personnel reportedly patrolling the Syrian-Israeli border, “are not part” of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF). UNIFEED

A top UN official warned that an attack on one of the last functioning hospitals in Yemen in the key port city of Hudaydah has put hundreds of thousands of people at risk and damaged efforts to prevent a third cholera epidemic in the war-torn country. UNTV CH