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The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) urged international lenders to expand debt-for-education swaps, warning in a Friday report that many developing countries are spending more on debt servicing than on schooling their children. 

As drought risk intensifies in South Sudan¡¯s Eastern Equatoria state, a new UN-backed plan aims to protect thousands of people before the worst impacts take hold. 

Since the United States and Israel launched attacks on Iran in late February, there has been a ¡°lost continuity of knowledge¡± on Tehran¡¯s nuclear programme, Rosemary DiCarlo, the UN peace affairs chief, warned the Security Council on Friday as tensions mounted amid new strikes across the Middle East.

In war-torn Sudan, a deadly new cholera outbreak has already claimed more than 100 lives, heightening serious concerns for vulnerable communities including in besieged El-Obeid, where daily drone attacks have continued to hamper aid access. 

At least one million women and girls have lost access to critical humanitarian support since January 2025 as unprecedented aid cuts push women's organizations in crisis zones to the brink of collapse, the UN¡¯s gender equality agency, UN Women, said on Friday. 

Representatives from 12 countries carried out a ¡°virtual diplomatic field visit¡± to a displacement site in the Gaza Strip and heard from some of the residents about their pressing needs, the United Nations said on Thursday.