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🇨🇩UN rights council to meet Friday on DR Congo violence. The emergency session will be held at the DRC’s request after the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels announced a unilateral ceasefire following a week of fighting that has left scores dead.
AFP via Barron's (EN)
👩🏽‍🍼Scoop: UN Population Fund thought it prepared for the worst – it didn’t. Maternity health programmes in Afghanistan, Gaza, Bangladesh, Ukraine, Pakistan and other countries are among those jeopardised by the US funding freeze.
Devex (EN)
🎧Inside Geneva: Trump and the UN. Experts discuss what the US’s latest decisions to halt foreign assistance mean for UNRWA, the World Health Organization and aid overall.
Swissinfo (EN)
🧾UN begins talks toward fair tax accord without US. The US said it would withdraw from the negotiations for a convention aimed at tackling fiscal evasion, an initiative led by developing nations which have complained that wealthy countries have excluded them from decision-making about tax issues.
AFP via Barron's (EN)
🐱Claws out in UNDP office in West Africa. An urgent trip by a senior staffer to take her cat to the vet across two countries has sparked outrage and prompted a formal investigation by the agency’s Office of Audit and Investigations.
PassBlue (EN)

Good morning, this is Kasmira. It’s time to strap your seatbelts. There’s turbulence ahead for international Geneva, concedes state councillor Nathalie Fontanet, who oversees its activities, but with it comes a chance for reform, she tells me.