Ethiopia’s Tedros Adhanom was elected as the new head of the powerful World Health Organization on Tuesday, vowing to shake up an agency seen as needing major reform. The former Ethiopian health minister beat out Britain’s David Nabarro and Sania Nishtar of Pakistan in the race to lead the UN’s public health body. The result … Read more
The head of the United Nations refugee agency on Sunday urged Libyan authorities to free all asylum seekers and refugees from its detention centres as he visited Tripoli. “I hope first of all that asylum seekers and refugees can be taken out of detention centres,” UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said after visiting … Read more
Portugal’s former prime minister Antonio Guterres was officially nominated by the UN Security Council on Thursday to succeed Ban Ki-moon as the next United Nations secretary-general. The 15-member council unanimously adopted a resolution formally presenting Guterres as their choice during a closed-door session. The UN General Assembly’s 193 member-states are now expected to approve Guterres … Read more
The Syrian cease-fire agreed to last week by Russia and the United States has reduced violence in the short term, but there are troubling signs it may collapse like previous attempts to end the war, now in its sixth year. The crucial element of the agreement is a “cessation of hostilities” among all parties involved … Read more
A man from neighboring Burkina Faso, who shows symptoms of fever and bled from his nose and ears “was brought in dead,” at the Bawku Presby Hospital in Ghana’s Upper East region Friday afternoon. The Medical Director at the Hospital, Dr Joseph Yaw Manu, confirmed that the man had died at the time he was … Read more