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The United Nations' Secretary-General warned on Wednesday that “there isn’t a moment to lose” to stop the SAFER oil tanker, a rusting ship near the Yemeni coast, from spilling more than 1 million barrels of oil into the Red Sea. UNIFEED

The Head of the World Health Programme (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said the WHO has issued an updated appeal for almost 150 million US dollars for Ukraine and refugee-hosting countries, but noted the Organization still faces a funding gap of 100 million US dollars. WHO

The United Nations Resident Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen, David Gressly, told journalists in New York that he was “optimistic” that the operation to salvage the Safer tanker off the coast of Yemen, “will end up as a positive news story.” UNIFEED

At a pre-recorded event remembering the victims of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, Secretary-General António Guterres said the genocide against the Tutsi “was neither an accident nor unavoidable,” and a generation after the events, “the state of shame endures as we remember the bloodshed 28 years ago.” UNIFEED

Russia must immediately suspend military operations in Ukraine, the UN International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled on Wednesday, in The Hague. ICJ

Two years since the World Health Organization (WHO) characterised the global spread of COVID-19 as a pandemic, more than 6 million people have died and new variants are still a threat. WHO

The UN General Assembly and Security Council elected Hillary Charlesworth of Australia to the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations. UNIFEED

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) redrew the maritime boundary between Somalia and Kenya in what it considered to be an equitable solution to the border dispute in the Indian Ocean. ICJ

Heavy rainfall that has triggered deadly and catastrophic flooding in several western European countries this week is just the latest indicator that all countries need to do more to hold back climate change-induced disasters, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Friday. UNTV CH

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres issued a statement on the delivery by the International Residual Mechanism for the Criminal Tribunals of the appeals judgment in the case against Ratko Mladić, the former commander of the Bosnian Serb armed forces, calling “on all those in position of power to refrain from denying the seriousness of the crimes that have been adjudicated.” UNIFEED / FILE