Haiti's violence has paralyzed the country, obstructed humanitarian aid, and fueled the resurgence of cholera amid a widening food crisis, U.N. officials emphasize.
The deputy head of the United Nations appealed to world leaders to answer the Haitian government's call for help by sending troops to restore peace and security.
"At the end of 2022, Haiti is in a deepening crisis of unprecedented scale and complexity that is cause for serious alarm," Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed told the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday.
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.S. President Joe Biden each took the stage at the U.N. General Assembly to emphasize there are global stakes in the outcome of the war.
Despite the absences, the politics of catastrophe and climate inaction toward Earth's impaired health await the assembly's annual gathering of world leaders next week in New York.
The suspension, a typical reaction to Africa's military coups, bars Niger from voting on the A.U.'s proposals.
African Union and West African regional bloc leaders supported deployment of a standby military force and demanded that Niger's junta release the ousted president.
A new report says the world's marketplace appears to be growing at a modest rate that's defined as a global recession.
The Platform to Protect Whistleblowers in Africa said the health leader was "targeted by an Ethiopian government investigation that appears to have been politically motivated."
“The path to justice for his killing remains fully blocked," said Amnesty International’s Secretary General Agnès Callamard.
The idea is to speed up the adoption of a global economic model that more closely aligns with the U.N.'s 17 Global Goals.
