Senior UN officials appealed on Friday for immediate and unrestricted humanitarian access to Tigray – and for an end to deadly attacks on aid workers – as the Security Council held its first open meeting on the conflict in the restive northern Ethiopian region.

Hunger is ‘an avoidable tragedy’ in a world of plenty: Türk
UN condemns deadly wave of drone strikes in war-torn Sudan
Guterres honours Indonesian troops who paid ‘ultimate sacrifice’
‘Season of fear’: Escalating Israeli attacks on West Bank olive farmers, deadly strikes on Gaza
Haiti: Elections on hold as gangs adapt to security crackdown, Security Council hears
Protecting Earth’s fragile biodiversity takes spotlight at Armenia talks