Here’s what else is happening

• 🇸🇩UN probe says mass killings, rapes, abductions, starvation by Sudan force amount to genocide. Rapid Support Forces committed the abuses as an intentional policy amounting to genocide when they captured Al-Fashir in 2025, according to the UN fact-finding mission on Sudan.
  Reuters (EN)
• 🇹🇳Rights groups, UN experts warn over world’s silence on crackdown in Tunisia. Rights groups led by Human Rights Watch warned that member states’ silence at the Human Rights Council over a worsening situation in Tunisia “signalled a free pass” for Tunis to continue its crackdown on civic space, including NGOs, journalists, lawyers and migrants.
  Middle East Monitor (EN)
• 🩺By 2050, there will be 35 million annual cancer cases without more action, warns WHO. The World Health Organization said while policy interventions have helped reduce lung cancer via a decline in tobacco use, more assertive measures were needed to reduce obesity, infections and alcohol consumption, key contributors to cancer.
  Health Policy Watch (EN)
• ⚖️UN takes ‘historic’ step and declares neglected tropical diseases a human rights issue. The resolution at the Human Rights Council, backed by six African countries and adopted unanimously earlier this week, recognises that the illnesses require more access to medicines and public health.
  El País (EN)
• 🦠Can the Ebola response avoid another sexual abuse disaster? Experts note that abuses committed by aid workers during the last Ebola outbreak took place in the same part of eastern DRC. Meanwhile, a recent scandal of abuse toward Sudanese refugees showed that even reputable organisations, such as Médecins Sans Frontières, cannot guarantee that civilians are safe
  Devex (EN)
• 💼Irene Khan named Bangladesh’s UN envoy. The UN special rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression is expected to begin as head of Dhaka’s mission in New York ahead of the UN General Assembly.
  The New Nation (EN)