WHO warns disease and hunger are at alarming levels in the Congo, where almost 10 million people are on the move.
While much of the world focuses on the death and devastation in Gaza and Ukraine, a historic humanitarian crisis fueled by conflict, disease and weather is unfolding across central and northeast Africa.
Starvation, epidemics, climate change, civil wars, displacement and sex trafficking are upending the lives of millions of men and women, boy and girls.
Scoop: The cuts result from Trump abolishing Biden-era efforts to save lives through legal U.S. immigration options.
Scoop: The budget freeze is part of almost $700 million the U.N. refugee agency already received from the United States.
Other U.N. agencies that have been cited as potential replacements for UNRWA all agree it is irreplaceable.
Scoop: UNHCR's directors scrambled to tighten its budget because of the Trump administration's 90-day aid stoppage.
"Europe faces a clear and present danger," E.C. President Ursula von der Leyen said as the emergency meeting began.
The averate rate of gains for women-held seats accelerated between 2000 and 2015, but slowed in the last decade.
The five-point plan, unveiled as "ReArm Europe," is Europe's largest military and economic mobilization effort this century.
After an extraordinary U.S. repudiation, Ukraine won pledges from world leaders to urgently boost Europe's self-defense.
