UNDP operates in 170 countries including Ukraine where it focuses on humanitarian demining, energy infrastructure repair. (UNDP Ukraine/Flickr)

💸UN seeks private finance drive for development projects. Amid deep budget cuts from governments, the head of the UN Development Programme, Alexander de Croo, said the agency will have to be more selective over its use of public funds while at the same time encouraging more private investment.

🗣️UN human rights chief urges US to uphold international law in immigration crackdown. Volker Türk cited concerns over arbitrary and unlawful arrests and detentions after a crackdown that has seen some 3,000 heavily armed federal officers deployed in the city of Minneapolis, where a second citizen was fatally shot on Saturday.

🔮Adapt, shrink or die: the global crisis in humanitarian aid. In the final days of his term as the UN high commissioner for refugees, and on his last mission in Sudan, Filippo Grandi reflects on the future of humanitarian aid from one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.

🇸🇸South Sudan orders UN personnel, civilians to leave parts of Jonglei State. The evacuation order follows clashes that the UN says are occurring at a scale not seen since 2017.