Name: Episode 19 by UNIFIL Radio
Duration: 5 min 14 s
Description: In News from UNIFIL #19, UNIFIL Spokesperson, Andrea Tenenti, highlights the discovery of over 200 weapons caches since November 2024, calling it a violation of Resolution 1701. The episode also features peacekeepers from the Republic of Korea, India, and Spain supporting local communities through Taekwondo classes, tree planting, and unexploded ordnance safety sessions.

In News from UNIFIL #19, UNIFIL Spokesperson, Andrea Tenenti, highlights the discovery of over 200 weapons caches since November 2024, calling it a violation of Resolution 1701. The episode also features peacekeepers from the Republic of Korea, India, and Spain supporting local communities through Taekwondo classes, tree planting, and unexploded ordnance safety sessions.

Episode 19

Refugees from Sudan are crossing into Chad in growing numbers in search of shelter from the spiralling conflict, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR said on Tuesday.
 
"Most arrived in Chad with nothing – no food, money, or identification," UNHCR representative in Chad, Magatte Guisse said. "Several wounded individuals, including children and elderly women, reportedly fell from vehicles during the chaotic escape."
 
"Their journeys to safety were perilous, with refugees facing, robbery and extortion at checkpoints and repeated threats along the way."

Exhausted Sudanese women, children are increasingly fleeing to Chad ‘with nothing’

• Gaza: Humanitarians reject Israeli proposal to take over aid delivery
• Exhausted Sudanese women, children flee into Chad ‘with nothing’ as fighting escalates
• South Sudan: Hospital bombing in South Sudan may be war crime, UN warns 


Audio credit: Daniel Johnson, UN News 
Music composed and produced by Joachim Harris. All rights reserved. 


UN News Today 06 May 2025 - Gaza, Sudan, hospital bombing in South Sudan

Tens of thousands of people went missing under the Assad dictatorship in Syria during more than five decades of systematic repression and forced disappearances. 

In response, the UN General Assembly established the Independent Institution on Missing Persons in the Syrian Arab Republic (IIMP) in 2023 to help account for them all.

The investigative body aims to provide long-awaited truth and closure for Syrian families. 

Speaking to UN News’s Abdelmonem Makki following their recent assessment mission to Syria, IIMP head Karla Quintana said that “everyone knows someone who is missing”.

Audio credit: Abdelmonem Makki, UN News

Independent investigators take on ‘titanic’ mission to find Syria’s missing

Kandice Ardiel highlights the importance of peacekeepers’ freedom of movement, while Julie Myers talks about risk awareness efforts by UNIFIL to protect children from unexploded ordnance. Also in this episode: a high-level diplomatic visit to UNIFIL.

Episode 23


كانديس أرديل تُسلّط الضوء على أهمية حرية حركة قوات حفظ السلام، فيما تتحدث جولي مايرز عن جهود اليونيفيل في التوعية من مخاطر الذخائر غير المنفجرة، لحماية الأطفال بشكل خاص. وفي هذه الحلقة أيضاً: زيارة دبلوماسية رفيعة المستوى إلى اليونيفيل.

الحلقة رقم 23

The digital revolution has created unprecedented opportunities for children and young people across the globe to communicate, learn, and socialise. 

However, browsing the internet as artificial intelligence gathers pace, also presents dangers – from sexual abuse to cyberbullying – highlighting the need for smarter and more effective regulation to keep youngsters safe. 

As the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) holds its annual forum on Science, Technology and Innovation, UN News’s Emma Trager-Lewis spoke to Baroness Kidron, Founder of 5Rights, a UK-based organization dedicated to children’s rights in the digital world.

Emma began by asking the former film director and producer, who addressed Tuesday’s session on harnessing AI for sustainable development, why she first got involved in campaigning for digital rights.

Audio and photo credit: Emma Trager-Lewis, UN News

Regulating AI to protect children online

• Gaza: Another school is hit in devastated enclave
• Ongoing Russian attacks in Ukraine hit civilians hardest, warns top UN aid official
• Vital food aid reaches DR Congo city of Beni for thousands of displaced

Audio credit: Daniel Johnson, UN News
Music composed and produced by Joachim Harris. All rights reserved.

UN News Today 07 May 2025 - Gaza update, Ukraine deadly attacks, DR Congo crisis

One in two people in Sudan is facing acute hunger and 13 million people have been displaced from their homes because of two years of war.

Although the UN aid operations are continuing, drone attacks on the humanitarian hub Port Sudan have threatened aid deliveries.

“It’s critical that the deliveries of vital aid continue safely and regularly, as we’re responding to unprecedented needs,” said Leni Kinzli, Head of Communications for the UN World Food Programme (WFP) in Sudan.

The UN agency has just distributed emergency food packages to 335,000 displaced people who have arrived in Tawila, after fleeing “horrific levels of violence” in Darfur’s El Fasher town.

“We are also ramping up assistance in Khartoum, aiming to support one million people in the coming month,” Ms. Kinzli told UN News, emphasizing that WFP requires $700 million over the next six months to expand assistance to seven million people every month.

Port Sudan: No let-up in drone attacks, say aid teams

• Port Sudan: No let-up in drone attacks as UN chief urges peace 
• Gazans suffer while supplies remain blocked outside the enclave: OCHA
• Condemnation as Israeli troops force closure of occupied West Bank schools

Audio credit: Daniel Johnson, UN News
Music composed and produced by Joachim Harris. All rights reserved 


UN News Today 08 May 2025 - Port Sudan, Gaza, West Bank schools

Ajith Sunghay, head of the UN human rights office, OHCHR, speaks on the school closures in the occupied East Jerusalem. 

CLIP: School closures in occupied East Jerusalem 'denial of education' for children

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