UN agencies have continued to stress they must be allowed to deliver aid in the Gaza Strip as famine looms and a telecommunications blackout threatens lifesaving operations ...

Aid teams in eastern Chad have warned that host communities are reaching breaking point because of climate shocks and the pressure of hosting war refugees from neighbouring Sudan ...

The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has released their annual Food Outlook report which provides a “relatively optimistic” look at international food markets ...

Prisons have become a fragile link in many criminal justice systems, weakened by over-incarceration, overcrowding, poor conditions and chronic neglect – fuelling calls for urgent reform ...

Israel’s strikes on Iranian nuclear and military facilities mark a dangerous new escalation in the Middle East, a top UN official told the Security Council during an emergency session convened on Frid ...

The Libyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Government of National Unity Friday strongly ...

A London-bound Air India jet carrying 242 people crashed moments after take-off from Ahmedabad on Thursday, reportedly killing more than 200 on board, with dozens still unaccounted for ...

Ships in the port of Nice sounded their fog-horns on Friday, a brassy crescendo to a rare moment of global unity as the Third UN Ocean Conference drew to a close ...

Niger’s economy recorded robust growth in 2024, driven by large-scale oil exports ...

The World Bank has approved $150 million for the Gabon Urban Development project (in French: “Projet d’aménagement et de développement des Infrastructures du Gabon (PADIG)”) to enhance access to ...

Public debt is projected to reach nearly 100 percent of global gross domestic product by the end of this decade, surpassing even pandemic-level highs ...

The UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan sounded the alarm on Friday that the 2018 Revitalized (Peace) Agreement is at serious risk of collapse and called for urgent, coordinated regional ...