7 d. ago Somalia: Millions at risk of worsening hunger as WFP faces critical funding shortfall

MOGADISHU, Somalia – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warns today that millions in Somalia are at risk of worsening hunger and malnutrition as critical funding shortfalls have forced the agency to reduce the number of people it supports with lifesaving emergency food assistance in Somalia by over two-thirds.

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1 week ago UN sanctions against Iran imminent after failed bid to delay

When Diplomacy Paused: The Snapback That Reopened the Door to Confrontation There are moments in international life when the entire globe seems to hold its breath. I felt it in two cities this week: the hushed corridors of the United Nations, where diplomats murmured into phones and scanned scrolling votes, and the winding alleys of […]

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1 week ago Ireland to block Israeli ministers’ entry, Taoiseach announces

A Small Nation, a Big Moral Line In a packed United Nations General Assembly, Ireland’s Taoiseach, Micheál Martin, stood and made a decision that felt deliberately personal: to bar members of the Israeli government implicated in what he called the “unfolding disaster in Gaza” from setting foot on Irish soil. “We will act to prevent […]

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2 w. ago Video captures officials walking out as Netanyahu addresses the UN

A Quiet Exit, a Roar of Consequence: The Day the General Assembly Shifted The great chamber at the United Nations felt smaller than usual the moment Benjamin Netanyahu stepped toward the podium. Voices thinned. Jackets rustled. A ripple of movement—almost a choreography—swept across the rows as scores of delegates simply stood up and walked out. […]

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2 w. ago Israeli PM criticizes countries for recognizing Palestinian state

When the UN Hall Held Its Breath: A Moment of Fracture and the Weight of Memory The United Nations General Assembly, a place where diplomatic ritual often softens into ritualized rhetoric, erupted this week into raw politics and rawer grief. As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu climbed the rostrum, scores of delegates rose and filed […]

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2 w. ago United Nations launches formal investigation into Trump’s alleged ‘sabotage’ claims

A Stutter on the World Stage: When an Escalator, a Teleprompter and a Sound System Became a Diplomatic Mystery The United Nations building sits like a small, multicolored city on the East River—flags snapping in the wind, booths humming with interpreters, and a perpetual tide of diplomats who move between meetings like tides between islands. […]

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2 w. ago China Announces First Ever Commitment to Reduce Carbon Emissions

When Promise Meets Policy: China’s New Climate Pledge and the Tightrope of Global Ambition There’s a curious kind of theater to modern diplomacy: leaders speak to glass and pixels, while the planet waits with its old, messy, un-sentient patience. President Xi Jinping’s recent video address to the United Nations—laying out a first-ever numerical emission cut […]

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2 w. ago Palestinian leader to address United Nations amid renewed peace efforts

When a leader speaks from afar: Mahmoud Abbas, the UN, and the precarious fate of Palestine There is an odd intimacy to virtual diplomacy. In a cavernous General Assembly hall where world leaders usually stride the carpet and journalists crowd the aisles, an 89‑year‑old statesman sat in a small room somewhere between Ramallah and the […]

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2 w. ago Zelensky: No Security Guarantees, But Weapons and Allied Backing

At the United Nations, a Wartime President Warns the World: “Weapons and Friends” On a cool autumn morning in New York, the General Assembly chamber felt oddly small for the magnitude of the conversation inside it. Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, stood again before the world — his fourth address as a wartime leader — and […]

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2 w. ago France formally recognizes Palestinian state at UN General Assembly

In a New York room full of history, France plants a flag The United Nations building sat beneath an autumn sky as if holding its breath. Delegations shuffled papers. Flashbulbs popped. Inside that cavern of diplomacy, French President Emmanuel Macron stood and did something that rippled far beyond the marble and glass: he announced that […]

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2 w. ago Global Leaders Converge in New York for the UN General Assembly

New York in a Tangle of Flags: The UN’s 80th Session Begins The United Nations headquarters—its façade a mosaic of flags and a century of promises—has the electric hum of a city bracing for a storm. It is High-Level Week in New York, and diplomats pour into the glinting towers around the East River like […]

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2 w. ago Top agenda items to watch at this year’s UN General Assembly

A Blizzard of Flags, But Not of Confidence Step out of the subway at 42nd Street and the city seems to be trying to stage its own United Nations: a flutter of flags along First Avenue, diplomatic SUVs inching past late‑arrival delegations, and doormen in blue ties checking credentials with a tired politeness. Yet beneath […]

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3 w. ago The Weaponization of Incompetence: How President Hassan Sheikh’s Leadership Failed Somalia

For the first time in Somalia's modern history, a president was reelected to a second term. This milestone offered a rare opportunity: a chance to deepen reconciliation, strengthen institutions, and unite a fractured nation. Instead of being humbled by the public's renewed trust, President Hassan Sheikh Mohammed (HSM) grew increasingly arrogant, presiding over an administration defined by personal ambition rather than national purpose.

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