Your monthly global politics recap for May 2023, brought to you by Andrea Stephen, Charlie Ball, Julianna Tully, Mary Henderson and Anna Pilgrim.

Sources: WHO, BBC News, United Nations, reliefweb, Sky News, The Guardian, royal.uk, UNICEF, The Economist, Independent, Time Magazine, Reuters, CNN, globalsecurity.org, Council on Foreign Relations, DW News, Los Angeles Times, NPR, UN News.