Ukraine
At the Security Council on Monday 9 November, Kayoko Gotoh, Director of the Europe and Central Asia Division in the UN's political and peace operations departments, said civilian casualties in Ukraine are reaching record highs: at least 328 civilians killed and 2,105 injured in September, 85 per cent more than in September 2025, according to the UN noon briefing the same day. She said the Russian Federation's intensifying attacks on Ukraine's energy facilities are of grave concern as winter approaches. The briefing said more than 900,000 households and businesses in the Dnipro and Zhytomyr regions temporarily lost power over the weekend of 7 and 8 November, and Ukraine's Ministry of Energy reported new disruptions in 12 regions on the morning of 9 November. At an aid distribution site in the Komyshuvakha area of Zaporizhzhia, struck a week before the briefing, authorities say 55 bodies have been recovered and 45 people remain listed as missing; a drone strike there on 8 November injured two emergency responders. The briefing does not say who struck the site.
DR Congo
Violence has flared again in Djugu territory, Ituri. The UN's acting Humanitarian Coordinator, Alain Akpadji, warned on 9 November that renewed violence there is endangering civilians. According to UN partners, at least five civilians were injured on Sunday 8 November in clashes near the Plaine Savo displacement site, which hosts more than 76,000 people, and the violence forced the suspension of a humanitarian assessment mission. The briefing does not name the armed groups. Ituri accounts for around 70 per cent of confirmed Ebola cases nationwide, in an outbreak now across eight provinces. Our Briefs of 29 and 30 October covered earlier reported killings in Djugu and at Plaine Savo.
Kenya and Ethiopia
Roughly 50,000 people have crossed into Kenya's Moyale area since late October after violent clashes in Ethiopia, according to a rapid assessment of 758 households led by the Kenyan authorities with support from the International Organization for Migration (IOM), UN News reported on 9 November. It found 71 per cent did not have enough to eat and 44 per cent lacked enough drinking water, and 96 per cent of households surveyed had fled mainly from the Oromia and Somali regions. The FCDO's new advice against all but essential travel around Moyale Town ran in our Brief of 7 November.
Senegal and Greece
IOM said on 9 November that at least 56 people died in weekend shipwrecks. At least 34 died on Friday 6 November when a boat capsized near Loumpoul, between Dakar and Saint-Louis; Senegalese authorities and public reports say one survivor was rescued and an unknown number are missing, and the toll is provisional. South of Crete, at least 22 died in two incidents involving boats that left eastern Libya: in one, Greek authorities rescued 28 Sudanese migrants and recovered eight bodies; in the other, 18 survivors were rescued and 14 bodies recovered. IOM has recorded at least 454 deaths and disappearances on the Western African Atlantic Route this year, as of 26 October.
Lebanon
The UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) reported three Israeli air strikes in its area of operations on Thursday 5 November and three more on Sunday 8 November, with 360 artillery trajectories recorded around Houla, Al Qantara, Brashit, Mansouri and Majdel Zoun, and observed apparent preparations for a sustained presence in both sectors, the 9 November briefing said.
