A man searches through the debris of his damaged home following airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen, Saturday, 24 October, 2026. (Keystone/AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)

🤝Switzerland supports Yemeni tribal code to protect civilians. The code, developed by Yemenis and organised by the Centre for Security Sector Governance, is supported by nearly 5,000 tribal leaders.

🇳🇮UN experts allege Nicaragua’s leaders may have committed crimes against humanity. They said actions by the presidential couple included eliminating opposition through arbitrary detentions, forced disappearances, political persecution and stripping citizenship from opponents.

⚕️WHO DG contender Gevorg Tamamyan: a test for Geneva’s entrenched machinery? The Armenian candidate and paediatric oncologist running to become the next head of the World Health Organization will need to convince its member states that a diplomatic outsider is able to run the agency.

👋ECB president Christine Lagarde to step down in February 2027. Her final day at the European Central Bank is set for just days before the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, where she is tipped to lead.

💰AI fortunes could bring critical funds to global health. The scramble is on. During the UN General Assembly’s recent high-level week in New York, the sector’s philanthropists met with organisations in need of funding since the US and other governments slashed aid budgets.