Here's what else is happening

• ✂UN migration agency chief sees budget cuts worsening in 2026. Amy Pope told countries at a meeting in Geneva to brace for further funding constraints next year as other donors prepare to scale back their foreign aid budgets. The IOM already announced a 30 per cent drop in its 2025 budget that would lead to 7,000 job cuts.
  Reuters (EN)
• 🔍Civil society organisations face backlash after Trump, Musk link USAid grantees to ‘terrorism’. Dozens of countries have launched investigations into NGOs and are considering restrictions on foreign aid following the US administration’s baseless accusations.
  Health Policy Watch (EN)
• 🇺🇳UN to downsize international staff in Gaza due to Israeli attacks. About 30 out of 100 foreign UN personnel will leave Gaza this week, after an Israeli attack on a UN compound reportedly killed a Bulgarian worker and injured six others.
  Al Jazeera (EN)
• 🍼Western coastal areas of Yemen near catastrophe due to malnutrition, says Unicef. One in two children under the age of five years is malnourished in Yemen, according to the UN Children's Fund, which warned that a decline in funding, made worse by the latest US aid cuts, was exacerbating the crisis.
  Reuters (EN)
• 🪑Handicap International launches repair works for vandaliesed Broken Chair. The iconic monument for victims of landmines was damaged in December by Femen activists critical of the UN for not doing more to stop Russia's war against Ukraine.
  Tribune de Genève (FR)