Tag: United Nations

African states narrowly failed on Monday for a second time to halt the work of the first U. N. independent ...

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, recently wrote a letter to Mr Michel Forst, the UN Rapporteur on situation ...

A 15-year-old girl has died in Nepal's western Achram district after she was banished to a shed because she was ...

The people of Gambia went to the polls on December 1, 2016. And as a result, incumbent President Yahya Jammeh ...

Protesters gathered in Democratic Republic of Congo's capital and at least one other city, defying a ban on demonstrations against ...

With Russia's backing, the United Nations Security Council on Monday voted to quickly deploy UN observers to Aleppo to monitor ...

An economist at the University of Ghana Business School, Dr. Lord Mensah, has said calls on the incoming Nana Akufo-Addo-led ...

At least 57 journalists have been killed around the world in 2016 while doing their job, Reporters Without Borders said ...

Evacuations have resumed from east Aleppo, with buses and ambulances leaving rebel areas of the Syrian city. At least 350 ...

West African leaders promised Saturday to enforce the results of a Gambian election that was won by a little-known businessman ...

The Philippine President vowed Friday to keep up his controversial campaign against drugs as long as he remains in office. ...

Evacuations have resumed from east Aleppo, with buses and ambulances leaving rebel areas of the Syrian city, a UN official ...

Several buses sent to transport the sick and injured from two government-held villages in Syria’s Idlib province have been burned ...

Several buses en route to transport the sick and injured from two government-held villages in Syria’s Idlib province have been ...

A rundown of the 16 contenders who have been shortlisted for the 2016 BBC Sports Personality of the Year award, ...

A former Foreign Affairs Minister of The Gambia, Dr. Sedat Jobe, has recommended a military intervention to oust the country’s ...

West Africa’s regional bloc ECOWAS must ensure The Gambia’s President Yahya Jammeh steps down because he lost an election, the ...

France has presented a UN Security Council draft resolution on sending observers to Aleppo to monitor evacuations and report on ...

West Africa's regional bloc ECOWAS must ensure The Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh steps down because he lost an election, the ...

A new deal has been reached to allow the evacuation of several besieged enclaves in Syria, the government and rebels ...