Tag: United Nations

The UN Security Council on Thursday agreed to a major drawdown of peacekeepers in Sudan's troubled region of Darfur after ...

Burundi on Thursday said it has "faith" in the new UN envoy to the crisis-hit country but warned Michel Kafando ...

A world that heats up beyond that threshold will face a crescendo of devastating impacts ranging from deadly heatwaves to ...

An upsurge in Boko Haram attacks and returnees from Cameroon are stretching camps for those made homeless by the conflict ...

US-backed forces cut off the last escape route for the Islamic State group from Raqa on Thursday, a monitor said, ...

Five prominent Cambodian rights activists have been released on bail after more than a year in jail, a court official ...

Teodorin Obiang, Equatorial Guinea's vice president and son of its leader, denounced a French legal case against him Thursday as ...

Nigeria on Thursday began to export yams to Europe and the United States, as part of moves to diversify its ...

The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces on Thursday sealed off the last route used by the Islamic State group to flee ...

Government has finally communicated to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) its decision to extend the Fund’s programme. Sources say the ...

The ruler of Dubai has taken to verse to urge Qatar to concede to the demands of Saudi Arabia and ...

Italy has threatened to close its ports to aid groups rescuing migrants off Libya's coast as it struggles to cope ...

Ghana risks facing severe water crisis if it sacrifices its bauxite resources  in the Atiwa Forest Reserve in Kyebi, to ...

A deal on cutting nearly $600 million from the UN peacekeeping budget was reached Wednesday following weeks of negotiations over ...

North Korea's deputy ambassador to the UN Kim in Ryong described the US' sanctions against North Korea as a "mean ...

A project to plant 10,000 trees nationwide has commenced at the Ningo Senior High School (NINSEC) at Ningo-Prampram in the ...

Gunmen attacked a UN convoy on Wednesday near Zawiyah, about 50 kilometres (30 miles) west of the Libyan capital, a ...

Suspected acute diarrhoea has killed 38 Sudanese in the past month and 317 since August 2016, the UN said Wednesday, ...

China’s move to commit to $15 billion into Ghana’s economy could have some far reaching implications on the environment, given the deal ...

Throughout its 4.5-billion-year history, Earth has been repeatedly pummeled by space rocks that have caused anything from an innocuous splash ...