Syrian Ceasefire: In a joint statement this morning, the Secretaries-General of the UN and of the League of Arab States appealed to all warring parties in Syria to heed the call of the Joint Special Representative Lakhdar Brahimi for a ceasefire and a cessation of all violence during the period of Eid Al Adha next week.
Today's map comes from the Regional Mixed Migration Secretariat. It shows the patterns of asylum seekers, economic migrants and others as they seek to leave the Horn of Africa for Cairo, Israel, and elsewhere.
The SG: This morning, the SG gave a speech at an event to celebrate of the opening of the Four Freedoms Park, the memorial to American President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in New York.