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Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations today called on G5-Sahel Member States to "relentlessly pursue the efforts made to date, to deploy the remaining troops as quickly as possible, so that the Joint Force can resume its operations.” UNIFEED

Gaza on verge of collapse, senior United Nations official tells Security Council, calling for all parties to act urgently, ‘avoid another war’, at 8265th meeting.

The Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Nickolay Mladenov, said the recent violence at the Israel-Gaza border was “a reminder that Gaza is on the verge of collapse, that its people – who have lived for more than a decade under the control of Hamas, with crippling Israeli closures and with diminishing hopes for an end to the occupation and a political solution, and who have survived three devastating conflicts – are increasingly desperate.” UNIFEED

Despite cyclones bearing down on Somalia, causing flooding and upheaval throughout the country this past week, Somali students took the Unified National Examinations for further pursuing their education. UNSOM

The ongoing violence in Libya is crumbling the health care system. Direct targeting of health workers and patients in the conflict could constitute war crimes, a United Nations joint report has said. OHCHR /UNSMIL

General Assembly adopts resolution opening doors for bolstered cooperation with Parliamentarians in bridging people’s demands to wider global agenda at 89th plenary meeting.

Briefing by Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

Libyans eager to leave decade of violence, instability behind, top United Nations official tells Security Council at 8263rd meeting.

The rainy season onset in South Sudan wreaked havoc on the lives of the most vulnerable who are already living in difficult conditions after fleeing ongoing violence and finding shelter in the Protection of the Civilians (POC) site in Bor, South Sudan. UNMISS

Noon briefing by Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesman for the Secretary-General.