Locals wash their hands at a checkpoint set up for preventive measures against the spread of Ebola in Kanyaruchinya, near Goma, North Kivu, 27 May 2026. (Keystone/EPA/Marie Jeanne Munyerenkana)

🦠Ebola-hit DR Congo faces ‘catastrophic collision’ of disease and conflict, WHO warns. Director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was due to arrive in the country on Wednesday as he warned that attacks on health facilities and mass displacement made contact tracing and care extremely difficult.

🛂US blocks Iranian and Russian VIPs from participating in Security Council debate. Russian deputy foreign minister Alexander Alimov and Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, were among those denied visas to take part in a Security Council session on the respect of the UN charter, organised by China as part of its rotating presidency in May. This is the latest in a series of incidents fuelling accusations that Washington is violating its UN headquarters agreement.

🪖UAE accused of training Colombian mercenaries for Sudan’s war. A report by Human Rights Watch says they were sent to fight alongside the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in its war against the Sudanese army. The UAE denied the accusations.

💀US-Israel war on Iran driving historic levels of global hunger, UN says. Funding cuts compounded by the Strait of Hormuz closure have forced the World Food Programme to cut programmes in places in need to focus on areas hit by famine, according to the UN agency’s new acting head.