Published on: 2026-05-20
Source: United Nations – United Nations –
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Main news of the day at the UN and worldwide: UN reaction to the shelling of the Dnipro, UN Security Council meeting dedicated to the protection of civilians in armed conflicts, telephone conversation between the UN Secretary-General and the U.S. Secretary of State, Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda.
Shelling of Dnipro
The UNHCR Representative Bernadette Castell-Hollingsworth strongly condemnedmissile shelling and attack using dronesFrom the Russian side, as a result of which fewer than two civilians were killed in Dnipro and several more were injured. According to the Joint Forces Operation (JFO), as a result of the strike, a warehouse leased by this agency was hit. Significant amounts of humanitarian aid and construction materials were destroyed.
UN Security Council Meeting
In the year 2025, during armed conflicts, approximately one civilian died every 14 minutes. These data were presented by the representative of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Edem Vosornu, speakingat the Security Council meetingOn behalf of Deputy Secretary-General Thomas Fletcher. According to her, the speech concerns only officially confirmed UN cases of civilian deaths in about 20 armed conflicts. She called on states to observe the UN Charter and international humanitarian law, to refrain from using explosive weapons in populated areas, and to protect the civilian population.
Telephone conversation between the UN Secretary-General and the US Secretary of State
The UN Secretary-General held a telephone conversation with US Secretary of State Mark Rubio. The main topic of discussion was the situation in the Strait of Hormuz area.António Guterresagain emphasized the indispensability of fully restoring the freedom of navigation and noted the importance of efforts to respond to new problems, such as the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Guterres and Rubio also discussed the activities of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). The Secretary-General explained the procedure for selecting the new executive director of the WFP and emphasized the importance of the organization’s work in the context of growing humanitarian crises.
Ebola outbreak in DRC and Uganda
AlthoughEbola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and UgandaDoes not meet the criteria of a global pandemic, the risk of disease spread at the national and regional levels remains high. This was stated on Wednesday by the Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Speaking in Geneva, the WHO chief reported that, in addition to several dozen confirmed cases of infection with the Bundibugyo strain, nearly 600 suspected cases and 139 deaths have been registered, which could possibly be related to the disease caused by this strain.The numbers will most likely continue to grow, as the virus circulated for a long time before the outbreak was detected, Gebreyesus noted.
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