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Sudanese women about to give birth are losing their babies and sometimes their own lives because of a lack of specialist healthcare support, amid the ongoing war, UN humanitarians said today. UNTV CH / UNFPA

The communities hosting refugees in South Sudan are already severely food insecure. More than 7.8 million people across the country – more than half the population - are acutely food insecure, and 2.2 million children are acutely malnourished. WFP

The earthquake in Colombia has affected nearly 10,000 families - around 43,000 people - including children and adolescents in the city of Chocó. UNICEF is providing water, sanitation and hygiene supplies for thousands of people in Chocó, including family WASH kits, maternal care kits, menstrual hygiene kits and water storage tanks. UNICEF

The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs facilitated two humanitarian convoys to front-line communities in the Kherson and Kharkiv regions of Ukraine, the United Nations said. UNIFEED

ltaf Musani, Director of Humanitarian and Disaster Management at the World Health Organization (WHO), said WHO's Surveillance System for Attacks on Health Care had documented, “since 2018, more than 10,400 attacks in 29 countries and territories, resulting in approximately 5,700 deaths and 8,500 injuries.” UNTV CH

UN Women’s Special Representative in Afghanistan Susan Ferguson urged governments and donors to continue investing in Afghan women and girls, stressing that their exclusion from public life should not be normalized. UNIFEED

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Barham Salih today called on the international community to rapidly scale up support to Syrians, saying the country stands at a critical juncture as growing numbers of refugees and internally displaced people return after years of conflict. UNHCR

South Sudan has one of the world’s youngest populations. They are disproportionately affected by conflict, but also critical to peacebuilding efforts. Their contribution was celebrated at an International Youth Day, supported by the United Nations Mission in South Sudan, under the theme ‘Different Contexts. Common Aspirations.’ UNMISS

The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission said that more civilians were killed or injured in Ukraine in July 2026 than in any month since March 2022, marking a new high in this year’s escalation of civilian harm. UNIFEED

Senior FAO official for Africa Meshack Malo described artificial intelligence as a powerful tool for farmers, stressing the need for Africa datasets, language models, research capacity and agritech firms, to enable the continent to be not only the consumer but the driver of the technology. UN NEWS