The Trump administation’s temporary travel and refugee ban went into effect late Thursday evening. According to the State Department cable, some family members are allowed in, but grandparents and grandchildren, fiancés, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, and cousins do not count as “bona fide” relationships.(Vox)

A World Food Program review of the global hunger situation in 2016 finds conflict emergencies in the Middle East, Africa and elsewhere are hampering United Nations efforts to achieve zero hunger by the year 2030. (VOA)

Colombia’s Marxist Farc rebels have concluded their disarmament, handing in all but a few of their individual weapons to the United Nations and ending their role in a half-century war that killed more than 220,000 and displaced millions.

The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that President Trump’s “travel ban” can still go into effect for foreigners who lack a “bona fide relationship” with someone in the United States. Unless they can satisfy that requirement, this also includes a total ban on all refugees from everywhere in the world for 120 days. (UN Dispatch)

Yemen is now facing the worst cholera outbreak anywhere in the world, the United Nations has warned. A statement by Unicef and the World Health Organization says the number of suspected cholera cases in the war-torn country has exceeded 200,000. So far more than 1,300 people have died – one-quarter of them children – with the death toll expected to rise. (BBC)

Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni and UN chief Antonio Guterres host today a conference to raise $8 billion for South Sudanese refugees. Nearly one million have crossed into Uganda since conflict broke out in 2013. (DW)

A French-American standoff over the vast, dangerous Sahel region of Africa is over: On Wednesday, after weeks of tense negotiations, the Security Council approved a resolution welcoming the deployment of a new multinational military force to fight terrorist groups operating in the area. (NY Times)

Despite a peace agreement signed this week between the government of the Central African Republic and different political and military groups active in the country, Doctors Without Borders teams are witnessing renewed fighting today in the town of Bria, in the east of the country, amid ongoing tensions elsewhere. (MSF)

At least 126 migrants were feared dead after their boat sank off the coast of Libya while trying to make the perilous crossing to Europe, the International Organization for Migration said. According to four survivors, the migrants left Thursday from Libya but their inflatable boat sank several hours into the journey. (AFP)

Humanitarian groups warned for weeks about the perils to civilians in the old city, where the United Nations believes up to 150,000 people are trapped, running low on food and water and held by Islamic State fighters as human shields in the face of advancing security forces. (NY Times)