The United Nations is an institution that is having to take a crash diet. The world organisation is struggling with a severe financial crisis as the Trump administration has withheld almost all US funding for its activities. Secretary-General António Guterres, who is approaching the end of his ten-year term at the end of 2026, is having to make emergency budget cuts and propose options for rationalising international agencies and offices. The UN will be providing less food, less shelter and...
