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Unofficial bot that posts noon briefings from the United Nations Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.
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Apologies, but after a year of operation we are closing up shop.
Not that it was too much a bother to run this account, but my interest has frankly faded.
For those interested, here is the source code that ran this bot:
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July 26, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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In Ukraine, food insecurity remains a concern in front-line and border regions. A recent assessment by the World Food Programme (WFP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) found that the war has devastated livelihoods and quadrupled poverty levels, leaving those most vulnerable at gre...
June 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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The Office for Disarmament Affairs and the UN Development Programme today launched the second phase of the Saving-Lives Entity trust fund, SALIENT 2.0. Established in 2020, the fund integrates small arms control and armed violence reduction into national development strategies as part of wider ...
June 25, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees estimates 2.5 million refugees worldwide will need to be resettled in 2026, down from 2.9 million in 2025, even as the global number of refugees continues growing. This is mainly due to the changed situation in Syria, which has allowed for vol...
June 24, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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A World Meteorological Organization (WMO) report notes that Asia is currently warming twice as fast as the global average. This is fuelling more extreme weather and taking a heavy toll on the region’s economies, ecosystems and societies.
June 24, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warns that the number of malnourished children in Gaza is rising at an alarming rate, with more than 5,100 children between 6 months and 5 years of age admitted for treatment for acute malnutrition in May alone.
June 20, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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In Haiti, the UN’s humanitarian country team is sounding the alarm about the need for enhanced preparedness ahead of the Atlantic hurricane season. Amid severe funding shortfalls, contingency stocks are at their lowest levels ever, as 5.7 million people face severe food insecurity.
June 19, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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In Burkina Faso, the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator today has allocated $5.9 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund to address the most urgent needs of displaced people in the country. The new funding will be used to scale up life-saving assistance including food and shelter.
June 18, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Women in Afghanistan are falling significantly behind global standards for human development, a UN-Women report released today states. The country has the second-widest gender gap in the world, with a 76 per cent disparity between women’s and men’s outcomes in health, education, financial inclu...
June 18, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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The latest “Hunger Hotspots” report, released by the World Food Programme (WFP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), projects a serious increase in acute food insecurity in 13 countries and territories in the next five months. Sudan, Palestine, South Sudan, Haiti and Mali are hotspo...
June 17, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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The UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Chad, , François Batalingaya,, said today the country is in crisis with the east reaching a breaking point. Floods impacted nearly 2 million people last year; 3 million people are struggling to feed themselves. The$1.4 billion umanitarian Needs and Response P...
June 13, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs warns that a complete collapse of Internet and data services is paralysing aid operations across Gaza. This is reportedly not a routine outage — but a total failure of Gaza’s digital infrastructure — and most agencies are largely cut off f...
June 12, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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A new report released today by the International Labour Organization and the UN Children’s Fund shows early 138 million children were engaged in child labour in 2024, including 54 million in hazardous work likely to jeopardize their health, safety or development. This number is 20 million child...
June 11, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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A United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) report, released today, finds that one in five people globally do not expect to have the number of children they desire. Key drivers include the prohibitive cost of parenthood, job insecurity, housing, concerns over the state of the world and the lack of...
June 11, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher has released $6 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund to respond to the worst malnutrition crisis to hit the north-east Nigeria in five years. One million children under age five in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe States are at risk of severe acut...
June 11, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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In Ukraine, attacks across the country, which started last night and continued this morning, have reportedly killed over 45 civilians. The UN and humanitarian partners are providing immediate assistance in the impacted regions, including construction materials, hygiene kits, emergency shelter a...
June 5, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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In Bangladesh, where monsoon rains and high winds triggered landslides, floods and damage across the Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, the International Organization for Migration, in coordination with State authorities, launched an emergency response to support emergency relocations and re...
June 5, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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In Sudan, five members of a UN humanitarian convoy were killed on 2 June and several more were injured during an attack in North Darfur. The joint World Food Programme-UNICEF convoy was made up of 15 trucks, and they had travelled over 1,800 kilometres from Port Sudan, and they were carrying nu...
June 3, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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In Nigeria, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and humanitarian partners continue to support the response to the devastating floods in the north-central part of the country. More than 500 households were impacted and over 3,000 people displaced.
June 2, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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In Gaza, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports that the catastrophic situation there is the worst since the war began. Strikes have continued across Gaza, particularly in north Gaza, where the last remaining partially functioning hospital, Al Awda, was forced to evacua...
June 1, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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UN peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo helped the country’s armed forces Wednesday respond to armed clashes in Ituri Province near a market in Fataki that caused civilians to flee. Earlier this week, they enrolled over 1,000 ex-combatants from the Zaire armed group into communi...
June 1, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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A new World Meteorological Organization report forecast global temperatures will continue at or near record levels in the next five years, increasing climate risks and impacts on societies, economies and sustainable development, with an 86 per cent chance that at least one year will be over 1.5°...
June 1, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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In Myanmar, a new report by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights found that the vast majority of the country’s people are united in their defiance of military authoritarianism and violence.
June 1, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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In Chad, UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Thomas Fletcher has allocated $2.5 million from the UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to urgently respond to the massive influx of refugees and returnees in the east of the country from Sudan. This brings CERF's total allocation to Chad this year...
May 31, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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The Secretary-General welcomes the signing of agreement between the United Kingdom and Mauritius concerning the Chagos Archipelago, including Diego Garcia. This agreement marks a significant step towards resolving a long-standing dispute in the Indian Ocean region.
May 31, 2025 at 7:30 PM