"ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT"

According to a new UN report, world output growth is projected to decelerate from an estimated 3 percent in 2022 to 1.9 percent in 2023, marking one of the lowest growth rates in recent decades. UNIFEED

Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva, concluded on Tuesday her visit to Zambia, where she met with students at the University of Zambia in Lusaka as well as opening an IMF office in the African country’s capital. IMF

Briefing journalists today on the World Social Report 2023, The Head of the Population Division of the United Nations said, “At a time of declining trust in governments and in each other, policies that promote sustainability and equity in an aging world can foster solidarity across generations and communities.” UNIFEED

Global growth is slowing sharply in the face of elevated inflation, higher interest rates, reduced investment, and disruptions caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to the World Bank’s latest Global Economic Prospects report. WORLD BANK GROUP

Security Council extends drawdown of African Union Transition Mission in Somalia by six months, unanimously adopting Resolution 2670 (2022).

Women literally being erased from public life in Afghanistan, speaker tells Security Council, sounding alarm over country’s dire situation.

At an event to mark the International Anti-Corruption Day, various speakers noted that South Sudan ranked last on Transparency International's 2021 Corruption Perception Index and called for an urgent need for reform. UNMISS

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said his Office will launch a year-long campaign to mark 75 years since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted. Türk, who this week visited Ukraine, said this miraculous, transformative text is as relevant today as when it was written. UNTV CH

Noon briefing by Stephanie Tremblay, Associate Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

Leaders of the Federal Government of Somalia, its international partners and a cross-section of Somalis gathered in the capital on Monday and Tuesday for the country’s first-ever International Investment Conference–an opportunity for the world to appreciate the progress being made by Somalia on the political and economic front. UNSOM