Cargo ships sail in the Arabian Gulf towards Strait of Hormuz in United Arab Emirates, 19 March 2026. (Keystone/AP Photo)

🌾Diplomatic push underway on Hormuz fertiliser proposal, UN says, as shortages bite. Meetings to discuss the initiative, which comes amid rising concerns about food insecurity, have been taking place in New York over the past two weeks.

🛢‘The transition away from fossil fuels is a prerequisite for global peace’. Alex Rafalowicz, director of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative, speaks ahead of this month’s summit in Colombia focused on the transition away from the climate-altering energy source.

💰Gap between rich and poor nations is growing even wider, UN report says. A year after last year’s development conference in Seville that called on narrowing the global wealth gap, a report found that geopolitical strains are pushing the divide further apart.

💥Red Cross calls consecutive strikes in Lebanon 'gravely concerning'. The ICRC called for the protection of aid workers after the death of a volunteer in an Israeli strike.

📥Scoop: UN chief resists push to pick ‘America First’ nominee to run WFP. António Guterres will leave the decision to pick a new World Food Programme leader to his successor, according to several UN officials and outside observers. It comes as as European governments privately raise opposition to the Trump administration’s nominee for the post.

🥣Millions of people in Sudan surviving on one meal a day as food crisis deepens, NGOs say. A report by Action Against Hunger, CARE International, the International Rescue Committee and the Norwegian Refugee Council, found that the three year long war has caused widespread hunger.