UN News Today

• Ebola contact tracing ongoing in Nigeria
• Ukraine capital targeted in more Russian strikes
• Unlawful deaths of older people ‘alarmingly under-reported’

• El Niño ‘wrecking ball’ need not be a humanitarian disaster
• Global warming will breach 1.5℃ – but deep, fast cuts can still bring it back
• Sudan war: Peace efforts resume to end ‘drone war’ fuelling humanitarian crisis

• Yemen war closes in on densely populated Taiz City
• Afghanistan: worsening hunger outlook for millions
• 8 in 10 deaths caused by preventable diseases

• Protecting earth’s biodiversity in spotlight at COP17 in Armenia
• Gaza: Funding cuts leave half a million without food assistance
• Lebanon: UNIFIL peacekeepers continue supporting most vulnerable

• More than one million species face extinction, warns UN chief at COP17
• Gaza: 340 children killed despite so-called ceasefire, says UNICEF
• Yemen war has now displaced more than 230,000 people: IOM