People who were displaced by the fighting between M23 rebels and government soldiers leave their camp following an instruction by M23 rebels in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 11 February 2025. (Keystone/AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

🤝🏾DRC: MoU signed in Montreux to oversee truce. A joint mechanism between M23 rebels and Kinshasa will be set up under the auspices of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region. This ninth round of talks, the first taking place in Switzerland, was mediated by Qatar and the United States.

📍New human rights actor in Geneva. Launched in January, the Geneva Human Rights Hub, aims to find ways to make the UN’s human rights mechanisms more effective and address states’ concerns.

💉US and Global Fund ramp up support for HIV prevention jab. The Geneva-based health funder and US plan to expand the roll-out of lenacapavir to three million people over the next three years, a 50 per cent increase on the original target announced in September.

🚛ICRC delivers humanitarian aid to Iran. Convoys have begun to arrive in Tehran since Monday with the first humanitarian supplies, including blankets, hygiene supplies and cooking kits.

☢️UN nuclear chief urges strict Iran checks in any deal to end war. Rafael Grossi told reporters in Seoul that a very thorough verification regime for Iran’s nuclear programme would need to be included in any deal struck between Tehran and Washington.