Mirjana Spoljaric, ICRC president since 2022, at the organisation’s headquarters in Geneva. (© Jordi Ruiz Cirera for Le Temps)

🏳️Mirjana Spoljaric Egger: ‘Switzerland and the ICRC shouldn’t mix their distinct forms of neutrality’. The ICRC president calls for a paradigm shift as the organisation must now engage directly with heads of state. She deplores the the international community’s moral failure in addressing the crisis in Gaza.

🗳️ Chile’s Bachelet withdraws from race to lead UN. The former UN human rights chief withdrew her candidacy for UN secretary general on Saturday after scoring very few votes of support at the Security Council’s third straw poll on Friday.

🧬 Anti-abortion groups launch coalition on Geneva Consensus Declaration. Nearly 60 organisations joined the non-binding agreement backed by 43 governments, which states there is no right to abortion and promotes a conservative vision of family and women’s health.

💰 Switzerland plans to end development aid for certain countries from 2029. The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation said it will withdraw from 14 countries, including Nepal, Armenia, Georgia, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, and Tunisia. It will also strip support from six multilateral organisations whose names haven’t been disclosed.

Illustration by Lissillour Lorenzini for Le Temps

❝Reflecting on war to better reinvent peace. As the boundaries between war and peace blur and rapid advances in artificial intelligence give way to new “narrative wars”, contextualising what is happening is becoming even more critical to the future of our world order, writes Geneva Graduate Institute director Marie-Laure Salles.

❝War in the age of rising chaos. Competition for scarce resources, widening inequalities, mounting demographic pressures – as technological weapons become increasingly accessible, the world is growing ever more dangerous, writes Keith Krause, director of the Geneva Graduate Institute’s Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding.