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The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is on track to have record levels of verified grave violations against children for a third consecutive year in 2023. UNICEF

A UN spokesperson said that the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is "seriously concerned" about the persistent cases of gender-based violence, particularly in conflict-affected provinces of Ituri, North Kivu and South Kivu, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). UNIFEED

Increasing violence from armed conflict and intercommunal clashes which have left entire villages burned to the ground in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) along with rampant sexual violence and a cholera outbreak are devastating the lives of millions of people, the World Health Organization (WHO) said. UNTV CH

War crimes and crimes against humanity are still being committed in Ethiopia despite the signing of an agreement to cease hostilities 10 months ago, the International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia warned. UNTV CH

A joint statement from Albania, Brazil, Ecuador, France, Gabon, Japan, Malta, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States called for the parties to the Sudan conflict to “take full responsibility for preventing any acts of sexual and gender-based violence committed by their members and should issue command orders that prohibit sexual violence.” UNIFEED

Amid record levels of violence against children in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) sounded the alarm today that the country has the world’s highest number of children being raped and killed on a daily basis. UNTV CH

Mohamed Ag Ayoya, Humanitarian Coordinator for the Central African Republic, said the country is “utterly Africa's overlooked middle child, one that is squeezed, landlocked, and often forgotten inside a troubled region.” UNIFEED

The Director of Operations and Advocacy of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Edem Wosornu, said that the situation is “the worst” it has ever been, with around 8 million people in need of urgent humanitarian assistance in the provinces of North Kivu, South Kivu, and Ituri. UNIFEED

The Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs, Martin Griffiths, called for an end to the carnage in Haiti, where escalating violence has killed and injured more than 70 people in Port au Prince just in the last two weeks, a UN Spokesperson said. UNIFEED

The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) sounded the alarm on Tuesday about the “crisis of uncertainty” that is developing in Niger following last month's military takeover. UNTV CH