Lana Nusseibeh’s UN secretary-general campaign will draw on public and private funding. The disclosure raises questions about financial transparency, potential conflicts of interest and the independence of the UN’s next leader.

Seven candidates remain in the race to lead the United Nations. Friday’s Security Council straw poll could expose potential vetoes, test the front-runners and fuel pressure for a late entrant.

After 15 consecutive years covering UN High-Level Week, Ahmed Fathi reflects on UNGA81’s diplomatic openings, managed press encounters and the gap between promises and results.

World leaders are heading to New York for UNGA81 at a moment of war, economic pressure and geopolitical rivalry, putting diplomacy — and the United Nations itself — under fresh scrutiny.

As the U.N. opens its first Peacebuilding Week, officials are again calling for prevention, funding and political will. But 20 years after the Peacebuilding Commission was created, the gap between diplomatic consensus and real implementation remains hard to ignore.

Morocco’s U.N. Ambassador Omar Hilale used the C24 session to challenge the committee’s continued handling of Western Sahara, arguing that the file has moved beyond a decolonization framework toward a Security Council-led political process shaped by autonomy, development, and diplomatic momentum.

The first public dialogues in the race for the next U.N. Secretary-General did not settle the contest, but they did bring the field into sharper focus. Michelle Bachelet, Rafael Grossi, Rebeca Grynspan, and Macky Sall now look less like overlapping résumés and more like four distinct answers to the same institutional crisis.

Rebeca Grynspan enters the U.N. secretary-general race with economic gravitas, multilateral fluency and reform credibility, but also with a central question hanging over her candidacy: whether deep knowledge of development, debt and institutional diplomacy can translate into enough political force to lead the entire United Nations.

Macky Sall enters the U.N. secretary-general race with presidential stature and African political weight, but also under a cloud of controversy over legitimacy, sponsorship and accountability questions tied to his record in Senegal.

Public scrutiny continues Wednesday in the race for the next U.N. Secretary-General as Rebeca Grynspan and Macky Sall face the second day of General Assembly interactive dialogues, with ATN News previewing the stakes, contrasts and questions surrounding both candidacies.