🆘Aids pandemic risks ‘resurging globally’ amid US funding halt: UN. Winnie Byanyima, executive director of UNAids, said that her organisation projects an additional 6.3 million Aids-related deaths in the next four years – a 10-fold increase from the last count.

⚖️WHO regional director Saima Wazed accused of fraud and forgery by Bangladesh authorities. The daughter of deposed Sheikh Hassina faces charges for allegedly lying about her academic records during her campaign to lead the WHO’s South East Asia regional office and misuse of power to secure funding for a foundation she used to run.

🗳️This Serbian may run for UN secretary general again, experts say. Vuk Jeremic, a former Serbian foreign minister involved in an initiative modelled on Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to streamline the UN, may consider running for the top job at the organisation in 2027, according to diplomatic sources.

💰Rohingya in Bangladesh face dire consequences if aid money drops, say UN agencies. The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, and the International Organization for Migration launched their first-ever multi-year funding appeal to provide aid to 1.5 million refugees sheltering in the Cox’s Bazar camps.

🧸UN rep Najat Maalla M'jid: ‘Rise in child trafficking is proof that we have failed’. The Moroccan paediatrician and UN special representative on violence against children warns that increasingly organised criminal networks are resorting to artificial intelligence.