In line with the UN aid coordination workplace (OCHA), the hospital in Previous Fangak was struck early Saturday, killing seven civilians and injuring no less than 20 extra. The assault additionally destroyed important provides and compelled the withdrawal of assist employees, leaving the city’s inhabitants with out entry to important care.
“Individuals in these areas are already battling flooding, meals shortages and illness,” said Marie-Helene Verney, the UN’s performing Humanitarian Coordinator in South Sudan.
Too many lives in danger
“The destruction of important well being infrastructure and continued combating places harmless South Sudanese lives in danger.”
The bombing follows a wave of comparable assaults in Higher Nile state, the place well being services in Ulang and Nasir have been focused in latest months. The most recent strike has heightened fears of renewed battle as political and ethnic tensions rise nationwide.
The UN is now airlifting important provides to the realm, however entry stays restricted. The violence has displaced over 130,000 individuals previously two months, and assist companies warn that South Sudan’s broader $1.7 billion humanitarian plan stays solely 16 per cent funded.
Massive scale assaults on densely populated cities throughout Ukraine
The UN’s high humanitarian official in Ukraine on Monday condemned a collection of Russian strikes this weekend on densely populated cities and cities.
Between Friday and Monday, no less than 12 individuals have been killed and greater than 100 others injured in assaults thar focused Kharkiv, Kyiv and Cherkasy, and different areas in Ukraine.
These assaults additionally broken properties, faculties, a hospital and different civilian infrastructure, based on native authorities and companions, UN Deputy Spokesperson Farhan Haq instructed journalists in New York.
Within the aftermath of the strikes, “humanitarian organizations offered first assist, psychosocial help, emergency shelter kits, restore supplies, meals and drinks,” Mr. Haq mentioned.
Within the Kharkiv area, a fireplace triggered by a strike close to the town of Izium on Sunday, burned 85 hectares of land and broken over a dozen buildings. There have been no casualties reported, Mr. Haq added.
In the meantime, UN companies alongside companions reached 600,000 individuals up to now this yr with first assist, medical transport, major care and psychological well being help, together with at transit centres for displaced individuals.
An IOM-supported well being employee in Yemen accesses medical provides.
Yemen: UN delivers lifesaving medical provides
The UN Worldwide Group for Migration (IOM) on Monday delivered critical medical supplies to seven well being services in Yemen, the place a collapsing well being system and continual shortages proceed to hazard hundreds of thousands.
With help from the Authorities of the UK, IOM shipments are reaching hospitals and clinics in Aden, Lahj, Shabwah, Al Bayda and Sana’a – services serving each migrants and native communities.
“Each day, our groups see the impression of empty medication cabinets and overwhelmed clinics, on households and full communities,” mentioned Abdusattor Esoev, head of IOM in Yemen.
“By delivering important provides and supporting frontline workers, we’re not simply responding to pressing wants – we’re maintaining well being providers operating for individuals who have nowhere else to show.”
Disaster on disaster
The intervention comes amid an alarming well being disaster.
Almost 20 million individuals in Yemen require medical help in 2025, however over half of the nation’s well being services are solely partially functioning or have shut down altogether. Funding gaps have left 382 services unsupported, forcing many to shut or drastically minimize providers.
IOM’s help consists of important medicines, surgical gear and an infection prevention instruments, in addition to infrastructure repairs and help for well being employees.
For a lot of within the strife-torn nation, IOM-supported clinics stay the one supply of free medical care.
ICJ rejects Sudan’s genocide case towards UAE
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has rejected Sudan’s case accusing the United Arab Emirates (UAE) of complicity in genocide in Darfur, citing an absence of jurisdiction.
Within the decision, the UN’s high judicial physique dominated on Monday by a vote of 14 to 2 that it couldn’t proceed with the case introduced by Sudan below the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Genocide Conference) and declined to impose any provisional measures, as Sudan had requested.
The Courtroom additionally eliminated the case from its basic listing by a vote of 9 to seven.
“Having come to the conclusion that it manifestly lacks jurisdiction, the Courtroom is precluded from taking any place on the deserves of the claims made by Sudan,” the ruling acknowledged.
Complicity cost
Sudan had accused the UAE of backing the paramilitary Speedy Assist Forces (RSF), alleging its help amounted to complicity in genocidal acts towards the non-Arab Masalit inhabitants in West Darfur.
The battle between the RSF and the Sudanese military has claimed 1000’s of lives and displaced over 12.7 million individuals since April 2023.
The Courtroom famous that whereas it couldn’t hear the case, all States stay certain by their obligations below the Genocide Conference.
