The UN on Friday warned of further deterioration in the human rights situation in South Sudan amid an uptick in hostilities, arbitrary arrests and hate speech since February ...

The UN Secretary-General on Friday outlined a five-stage plan to provide lifesaving aid to the stricken population of Gaza, making clear the organisation will not take part in any scheme that fails to ...

Sudan’s Minister for Culture and Information, Khalid Al-Aiser, has rebuffed sanctions announced by the US State Department after accusing the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) of using chemical weapons in i ...

Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye and his aides have been charged afresh with terrorism six months after his kidnapping and rendition from neighbouring Kenya, where he had travelled to attend a ...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) agreed on Thursday in Bamako, Mali, on the urgent need to work together in the fight against terroris ...

The US on Thursday accused the Sudanese government of using chemical weapons last year in the civil war against the paramilitary rapid Support Forces (RSF) and will accordingly impose sanctions on the ...

UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Tom Fletcher, has told the Security Council that the world is witnessing an unravelling of the protection of ...

A total of 5,162 beneficiaries have been reached by the unexploded ordnance awareness campaign in Tripoli, including 359 children and 327 women, a press release from the United Nations Support Mission ...

Comorian authorities and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff have reached a staff-level agreement on economic policies and reforms for the fourth review under the 4-year Extended Credit Facili ...

More than half the people killed in Gaza over the past week were in shelters and residential buildings, the UN human rights office OHCHR said on Thursday ...

With more than 36,000 civilian deaths recorded in conflict zones in 2024 and sexual violence surging, senior UN officials warn that the international framework designed to protect civilians is collaps ...

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Thursday that it has been forced to cut food aid to unprecedented lows in Kenya’s sprawling refugee camps, as a result of severe funding shortages ...