The governments of the United States of America and Mauritania last Thursday held their second Energy Security Dialogue to “consolidate advances and explore new opportunities for collaboration and par ...

The mpox outbreak continues to constitute a public health emergency of international concern, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said in a statement on Friday following the conclusion of a meeting of ...

The death toll of humanitarian workers in 2024 has become the “deadliest on record”, with 281 killed globally, the UN humanitarian affairs office, OCHA, reported on Friday ...

The following are the group pairings after the draw for the 15th CAF TotalEnergies Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) on Friday at the Mohammed VI Technical Centre in Salé, Morocco ...

Since 7 October 2023, 47% of attacks on health care – 65 out of 137 – have proven fatal to at least one health worker or patient in Lebanon, as of 21 N, UN News reported ...

The delivery of life-saving aid across Gaza “is grinding to a halt” amid a surge in armed looting targeting humanitarian convoys, the senior aid official in the region said on Thursday ...

The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) has launched a $10 billion appeal for 2025 to meet critical needs and implement sustainable solutions for millions of refugees, displaced persons and stateless people wor ...

An international humanitarian organization has lamented that although Sudan is currently witnessing the “world’s worst crisis”, still appeals made to mitigate the situation are “met with deafenin ...

A Ugandan military court in Kampala has ordered former opposition presidential candidate, Kizza Besigye, and his travel companion, Obeid Lutale, to be held in pretrial detention in a prison, the lates ...

The Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (ICC), in its composition for the Situation in the State of Palestine, unanimously issued a warrant of arrest for Mr ...

Amid growing calls to invest in human capital and expand job opportunities for Africa’s burgeoning youth population, a new report underscores the challenges faced by a critical demographic: ...

UN humanitarians warned on Thursday that one in four people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo suffers from “crisis or worse” levels of hunger that affects a staggering 25 ...