Category: International

Yemen: UN mission warns of ‘devastating’ loss of life, ...

The UN Mission to support the Hudaydah Agreement (UNMHA) is gravely concerned about recent hostilities in the crucial port city of...

Urgent action needed to protect Vietnamese workers traf...

Urgent action is required to assist and protect some 400 Vietnamese migrant workers who were allegedly trafficked to Serbia, exper...

UN relief chief pledges support for Nigeria

Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths, has ended a four-day visit to Nigeria, pledging support and promising the United Na...

UN coordinator in Tonga: ‘Resources on the ground are n...

As news coverage of the eruption and tsunami that hit Tonga starts to fade away, the United Nations Coordination Specialist in the...

80% of Tonga population impacted by eruption and tsunam...

Some 12,000 households have been affected by the volcanic eruption and tsunami that hit the islands of Tonga over the weekend, acc...

Young people must have ‘a seat at the table’ in peace e...

Although young people have been at the forefront of efforts to build and sustain peace, opportunities for them to make a meaningfu...

UN General Assembly approves resolution condemning Holo...

The United Nation’s General Assembly adopted on Thursday, by consensus, a resolution that condemns denial and distortion of the Ho...

West Africa: Extreme poverty rises nearly 3 per cent du...

Extreme poverty in West Africa rose by nearly three per cent in 2020, another fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, a UN-backed repo...

Top UN Colombia official calls for greater implementati...

Five years after its signing, the Final Peace Agreement in Colombia is setting down ever deeper roots, the Special Representative ...

Tigray: Eritrean refugees ‘scared and struggling to eat...

For the first time in weeks, aid teams have reached refugee camps in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, only to find that some Eritrean nat...

1.5 million children lack treatment for severe wasting ...

At least 1.5 million children are not receiving life-saving treatment for severe wasting in Eastern and Southern Africa, warned th...

First Person: ‘We saw people running from the tsunami, ...

When a tsunami swept over much of Tonga last weekend, Joseph Sikulu, a Tongan national, was in Sydney, Australia, exiled from home...

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