UN Security Council meeting on West Africa. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres (on screen) gives a virtual briefing to Council members. Top news of the day | Tuesday: Gaza, West Africa, urbanization, antibiotic resistance UN
Breaking news in the UN and in the world: The UN Secretary General welcomes the adoption by the Security Council of the resolution on the creation of the International Stabilization Force in Gaza, terrorism in West Africa poses a global threat, the world’s inhabitants continue to move to cities, Drug Resistance Awareness Week.
UN Security Council decision on Gaza
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres welcomed the adoption by the Security Council of a resolution on the creation of the International Stabilization Force in Gaza. The resolution proposed by the United States was supported on Monday by 13 countries, two – Russia and China – abstained. Guterres called the vote an important step towards “consolidating the ceasefire.” Meanwhile, UN humanitarian agencies warn that many Palestinian children in the enclave will not be able to withstand another difficult winter, and express hope that the adopted document will allow a rapid expansion of the scale of aid supplies. groups, the scale of forced displacement is growing and the volume of necessary services provided to the population is decreasing. These trends, as UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres noted in his speech to the Security Council on Tuesday, pose a growing threat not only at the regional but also at the global level. The Sahel region, stretching between the continent’s two coasts, accounts for 19 percent of all victims of terrorism. About a million people in Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and neighboring countries have been forced to flee their homes.
Urbanization Trends
In the middle of the last century, only 20 percent of the world’s population lived in cities, while today this figure is 45 percent of the total population of the planet, which has already reached 8.2 billion. At the same time, the study’s authors believe that the urbanization process will slow down in the coming years. This is stated in a new report published on Tuesday by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs. According to the study, the number of megacities—urban agglomerations with a population of over 10 million—has quadrupled, from eight in 1975 to 33 in 2025. More than half of them are in Asia. The only non-Asian city in the top ten remains Cairo in Egypt.
Antibiotic Resistance
November 18 marks the start of Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week. The UN reminds us that this problem is becoming increasingly acute and already poses a threat to public health. The campaign is under the motto “Time to act: protect the present, take care of the future.” He emphasizes the need for urgent action. One of the main factors aggravating the crisis is the thoughtless use of antibiotics. As part of the Week, the UN urges every inhabitant of the planet to resort to the use of these drugs exclusively on the recommendation of a doctor and to adhere to the treatment regimen proposed by a specialist.