World News in Brief: Alarm on Trkiye, Ukraine Update, Sudan-Chad Border Emergency

These detentions have sparked demonstrations across the country that met illegal general prohibitions on demonstrations in three cities, said Ohchr spokesperson Liz Throssell.

More than 1,000 people were held during demonstrations, including at least nine media workers.

Trkiye would have seen his biggest street demonstrations during more than a decade after the arrest of the current Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogans political rival, Mr. Mamolu.

Legitimate protest right

Ms. Throssell said all those detained for the legitimate exercise of their rights should be released immediately and unconditionally.

Those who face accusations must be treated with dignity, she added, and their rights to regular procedure while their rights to a fair trial, including access to a lawyer of their choice, must be fully assured.

We urge the authorities to ensure that rights to freedom of expression and freedom of assembly are guaranteed, in accordance with international law, and that credible allegations of illegal use against the demonstrators are quickly and in depth, Ms. Throssell stressed.

Ukraine: dozens injured in Sumy's attack; The UN hosts the announcement of the ceasefire in the Black Sea

More than 80 civilians, including children, were injured following a Russian missile attack against the city of Sumy on Monday in northeast Ukraines, UN humanitarian workers reported.

Citing the local authorities, more than 20 children were injured with two schools, a hospital and several houses undergoing many damage during the attack, said UN spokesperson Strhane Dujarric.

Completing the efforts of the first stakeholders, and immediately after the attack, the humanitarian organizations provided first aid and helped the wounded to the hospitals. They also distributed shelter equipment, blankets and other necessities.

The United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for Ukraine, Mattias Schmale, condemned the attack on Sumy and recent drone strikes in the cities of Zaporizhzhia and Kyiv.

Since the climbing of war in 2022 following an invasion of Russia on a large scale, the mission of monitoring human rights in Ukraine has verified more than 2,500 victims of children in this country, argued Mr. Dujarric.

He also noted an alarming increase in the victims of children in 2024, caused by explosive weapons targeting the territory inside Ukraine, due to intensified attacks along the front line in the Donetsk region and increased use of long -range missiles, drones and air bombardments.

Black Sea Ads

The White House said on Tuesday that Russia and Ukraine had concluded separate agreements following talks in Saudi Arabia with American negotiators, both accepting a maritime cease in the crucial corridor of the Black Sea expedition.

The United States said that Moscow and kyiv had accepted the principle of safe navigation, eliminating the use of force and preventing the use of commercial ships for military purposes.

Asked the secretary general's reaction, UN spokesperson SPPHANE DUJARRIC, told the regular lunch briefing that the two announcements were a welcome development.

These questions, in particular, about the freedom of navigation and the Black Sea, are problems that the secretary general, his team, notably Rebeca Grynspan [head of trade and development body, UNCTAD] And others have been working since almost the start of the conflict. And he continues to be discussions on these questions.

Mr. Dujarric said that the UN had not played any role in discussions in Riyadh, but that Mrs. Grynspan had been in Moscow for talks on Monday on the resumption of the Memorandum of understanding between Russia, Ukraine, Trkiye and the United Nations under the initiative of the grains of the Black Sea, which Moscow withdrew in July 2023.

He confirmed that discussions had also taken place recently in Washington.

The UN has been strongly invested in order to ensure that exports of Ukrainian cereals via the Black Sea can occur safely, as well as the transport of Russian food and fertilizer, to stop prices of spiral food in the world and keep famine away in vulnerable countries.

The initiative of non -marketed Black Sea grains was agreed by Russia, Ukraine, Trkiye and UN in Istanbul in July 2022. It allowed more than 30 million tonnes of cereals and other foods to leave Ukral ports and played an essential role in global food security, Guerres said at the time.

Sudanese uprooted by the conflict is dragged through the border of Chads

Finally, on the border of Sudan-Chad, where the UN teams said that a humanitarian emergency was underway, the number of people fleeing east to Chad should exceed one million by the end of the year.

There are already 970,000 refugees in Chad today, the result of almost two years of heavy fighting in Sudan between rival soldiers. Many have endured terrible violence and sexual abuse.

Refugees are hosted in 18 refugee camps and other shelters, but this added to pressures on communities already neglected in eastern Chad, according to the United Nations Development Program, Predict.

To help, the resident representative of the UN Agencys in Chad, Francis James, said that a new center of women should open its doors next month. It is an initiative of the deputy secretary general of the United Nations Amina Mohammed And its objective is to strengthen links between host communities and refugees, James said:

You have refugees who come, literally crawling and falling on the border, and you need social protection but you must also give them hope.

Other United Nations projects include support for women and girls to return to school.

The UNDP M. James explained that it was essential that the classrooms were built near the refugee camps so that schoolchildren can avoid walking for miles through dangerous areas where they may be attacked.

Continuous attacks in Sudan

Stphane Dujarric said on Tuesday that the UN was seriously alarmed by continuous attacks against civilians inside Sudan.

Dozens of victims were reported on Monday evening when an air strike struck a market about 40 kilometers northwest of the main city of Darfurs d'El Fasher which remains besieged by the rapid militia of the support forces that have been fighting government troops for almost two years for the control of Sudan.

Our humanitarian colleagues are also deeply concerned about the escalation of attacks against the populated areas of Khartoum, continued Mr. Dujarric.

Monday, civilians were killed and injured in eastern Khartoum when the artillery hit a mosque during evening prayers. Civilian victims were also reported on Sunday following heavy bombing in Omdurman – Khartoums Twin City across the Nile.